Does the state require you to get a tag for a road kill?

Here, if you don't actually hit it, but want it, you have to use your hunting tag on it. If you don't have that "unit" (mostly county based), you can't claim it. Would have to be a decent buck in good shape to burn my hunting tag on it...

P.S. If its wider than 22 inches, the state claims all road kill or found dead bucks or buck skulls. They sell those larger antler sets at their annual auction each spring. But none of this is in the annual hunting guide. A person typically "stumbles" into their "administrative rules" that act like laws. So screwed up...

Nice-some of the best moosemeat I ever ate was from road kill and train kill.

Got a whole moose in the freezer earlier that way.

When I worked on the Temagami section we would get about 2 -3 moose per month.
There is a big game preserve in that area and the trains ran in the wee hours of the night.

I imagine when the snow is deep the moose ran the lines for ease of travel!

Chris

Not exactly sure what our laws are down here, maybe Warrior will chime in. If I want one I just get it. Seems they’d want it gone rather than buzzards all over the roads for the next couple of days. Problem with most hit deer is the side that was hit is usually worthless. I don’t pick up too many anymore other than to move them off the road or finish them off.
Short story...my sons called me about a deer with a broke back not too far from the house and told me to come take care of it. By the time I got there a young lady in work clothes from a local pizza place had pulled up as well. I thought this ain’t gonna be good. Another older gentleman pulled up and asked what I was going to do, I told him I was gonna put this deer out of its misery. He agreed with me so I popped her in the head with my trapping pistol. The young lady watched the entire thing and said what you gonna do with it now? Thinking this wasn’t going to go well, I asked her what did she want me to do with it?
She floored me when she said, “Y’all think it would fit in this big plastic bag and in the trunk of my car? She said I get off at midnight and could put it in our deep freezer until then when I could take it home and clean it.”
So...we loaded that little doe up in her car and she drove away, lol!! Haven’t ordered a pizza from that place since!

In Wisconsin the process is now very easy. Just have to go on-line and register the deer as a road kill. At that point, you receive a confirmation number that you retain until all the meat is consumed. In the past, you had to call the local law enforcement and they would come out to tag the deer and fill out paperwork. Took a lot of time for both parties. No deer license is required either!

Chris