Picked up the first deer of my season this morning.
It was easy. Lying on the roadside, I had to drag it all of about 15 feet to the truck.
Early this morning (5:30am) I got a call from our local police department about a road-kill.
It is a very small button buck, but hardly any damage so there's a good bit of meat to be retrieved from this one.
I've been on the county road-kill list (for deer) for more than 30 years and couldn't begin to tell you how much venison I've put in a freezer from road-kill alone.
In one years time I picked up 9 deer from my county's road-kill list.
That season I filled my freezer, my brothers freezer, my nieces freezer, and gave some to the neighbors across the street.
It has been sparse in the last year or two, but I generally get one or two calls per season.
Years back I got a call about a deer that had been poached.
They caught the guy in the act of field dressing this deer so they made him finish, and then made him drop the deer at a local check station.
That time I picked up a doe that might have run 160lbs dressed, and I didn't even have to clean it!
Never know how much meat, if any, can be salvaged from a road-kill, until you dress them out.
Thinking about some Bambi-Q this afternoon.
It was easy. Lying on the roadside, I had to drag it all of about 15 feet to the truck.
Early this morning (5:30am) I got a call from our local police department about a road-kill.
It is a very small button buck, but hardly any damage so there's a good bit of meat to be retrieved from this one.
I've been on the county road-kill list (for deer) for more than 30 years and couldn't begin to tell you how much venison I've put in a freezer from road-kill alone.
In one years time I picked up 9 deer from my county's road-kill list.
That season I filled my freezer, my brothers freezer, my nieces freezer, and gave some to the neighbors across the street.
It has been sparse in the last year or two, but I generally get one or two calls per season.
Years back I got a call about a deer that had been poached.
They caught the guy in the act of field dressing this deer so they made him finish, and then made him drop the deer at a local check station.
That time I picked up a doe that might have run 160lbs dressed, and I didn't even have to clean it!
Never know how much meat, if any, can be salvaged from a road-kill, until you dress them out.
Thinking about some Bambi-Q this afternoon.