Heading down to the Colony to work on some cages that I needed to finish up with what parts I had to make them with, needed a couple doors and trigger rods and they have a cage clipper that is fast. On the way down I see coons laying just off of the shoulder of the State Hwy so on the back I stopped and yep the tails were gone and they had been there a while. What kind of idiot would do that it makes no sense but that guy is out there someplace. Not sure if it's the local poacher family or some bounty trappers that are clueless.

There will be a lot more of that with your high dollar tail bounty

The line of work you have been in, I would think this would be of no surprise to you.

Should be against the law to pollute waterways. Put them carcasses in a high spot away from the road so the eagles can eat without danger.

What is the colony?

Hutterite Colony (Amish with trucks)

Never seen it during the past trapping seasons my biggest worry was non-trappers being called trappers and pulling BS like that.

They need to put a bounty on the Amish.

couple dumped in the ditch near my place .. no tails...lol..
im sure ill get blamed

No season anymore on furbearer's in the south, just considered a pest same as a gopher rat or mouse in the house now, sad to see them reduced to just pest.

im suprised i have yet to see a road kill skunk with a tail.... thought smell would be a deterent.. i have seen half dozen with tails clipped . guess 10 bucks is worthwhile even for average citizen....

Back in the early 80's, a friend of mine dumped a bunch of fox carcasses over a county road bridge, and that ill-advised action alone spurned satanist rumors all over town.

People thought there were dog sacrifices going on, Lol.

Dumping carcasses off a bridge, or in a road ditch....Not cool at all.

I had a friend from Sioux Falls tell me that he and a friend took a 300 mile drive one day from Sioux Falls north, then west, then south, then back to Sioux Falls and he never saw a road killed raccoon, opossum, or skunk.

Surprising and shocking !!!

Who would have thunk it ?

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Went to WI and back seen some coons on the road on I-90 heading to Sioux Falls they had their tails on if you get off of the interstate they are gone!

speaking of WI, did you get your bird? Thanks again, Bob

He might have collected them off of the road real quick like, then stopped somewhere safer than the highway to clip the tails off and dropped them in one spot off the road rather than scattered along the road where he found them.
I am not trying to justify his sloppiness, just trying to explain why this may have happened..

I have heard that coon are smart. And after seeing the next falls fashion review I believe it.
This is their new line of fur for next fall

Pretty sure its illegal to dump any animal carcasses in a public ROW, especially a state highway, even before the bounty program. Plenty of no-brains out there, subsidize an activity to the general public and enough of them will surface. I hope any examples caught get maxed out with fines.

My youngest kid and his friend took in a dozen tails today. The critters were all actually trapped. I think the stinker component (nearly tied for first place) was getting to them. Surprisingly, the grinner count was in 3rd place. One of their coon was "really red" (so I was told) so maybe got some off color genes out of the pool. No diggers or reddie tails in the tally. I've gotten some skulls. They were happy. My kid won't have much interaction with wildlife for the next 4 years starting in mid-July so he won't be doing any trapping until probably at least 2023, especially if he's stationed overseas.

there's no bounty on them around here, while i don't toss them on the side of the road, i have about 40 or so coon/opossum/coyote carcasses on the burn pile at the farm. with the heat here this time of year even if they have decent fur it's slipping pretty quick so they really have no use. got one in the back of the truck now waiting to go on the pile in the morning.