I have a primo spot for roadkill deer. I think I may pick one this year late fall and try it out. Fill the freezer. So many deer, it will be easy. Gutless method. Hang, skin, and just take the good parts. Anyone else do this?

South Dakota has truly nutty roadkill deer regs. Basically, unless you hit the animal, you have to give up your hunting tags, in that unit, to pick it up. I know Law Dog gets roadkill to bait some of his trapping sets but I think he has a contract or something with the state or through the county where he can do that removal.

You can tell people in Ohio, who travel the highways and state routes are not starving. It's not uncommon to see 20 plus dead deer, in various states of decomposition, in a 2 hour drive. I think Ohio should encourage people to pickup road kill. It would make for a more scenic less malodorous travel experience.

Keith

Same in missouri. Its truly a shame the amount of venison that gets wasted due to roadkill.

I do but it gets put out on the properties I trap
Can't eat a road killed deer.
But I try not to let them go to waste

South Carolina is free for the taking. Did it back in December, pick up a buck on the way home one morning. Steam was still coming off of him. Skinned him, cut up before the wife woke up. Announced we were having backstrap for dinner. Sarge

If you need to give up a tag for a roadkill deer than the people that hit them should have to pay a hefty fine or be charged with killing deer out of season.

No tag in S.C. People do not stop. Don't know how they can get away and afford with fixing their vehicles without a LEO report. Sarge

Have done it quite often here. Just need to get a tag from the DNR or sheriff's department and your good to go. You can even get on a list for roadkill but no garrentees on weather or not they will be any good for human consumption.

Yes if it is killed close to home I butcher them if the Amish dont beet me to it.

In Nebraska, you can claim the carcass, if you hit one NE. G & P will give you a permit for it.
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I butchered two, on separate occasions, back when I would process other folks' deer for them.

NEVER AGAIN !!!! What a stinking, blood shot mess.

Charlie

Where about? I hardly see roadkill around here.

There's always one good side of a road killed deer.

We have eaten quite a few road kill. But normally I hit them or saw they were just hit example ... car still on side of the road that hit them and/or deer still flopping and rolling around.

It depends on where and how hard they were hit. I hit one on a 65° night on my way to work and only hit its head neck front quarter. It was still holding its head up but could not get up. Shot it drug it in the back of the truck and went to work. Got the shift started a couple trash bags and tyvek suit. I cut out the back strips and deponed the rear hams, put the trash bags of meat in my departments ice cooler( like the ones at gas stations,)

Another i hit hard in cold winter. Stoped the next morning and cut the back strips out.

When you get a road kill deer tag from cops or conservation officer. It often takes one to 2 hours for them to show up. I have avoided that by calling and clearing it with them to drive it up to the sherriff's office for a tag.

Some will not be worth keeping on others some parts will not be worth messing with. It will all depend on how hard and where they were hit.

I'm glad my work hours have changed now I'm not driving through my deer infested county in the middle of the night and have not hit one in 3 years. I used to stop for them 3 times a week or more but still ended up hitting one or two a year back then.

I know the pouchers use to lay them flat on the ground on their belly then cut from tail to neck.They would take back straps and hind quarter meat.That was before Wisconsin’s print your own tags honor system b.s.

I've butchered many road kill deer, and know many others that do as well. Our local dispatch (dispatched LEO and EMS to the whole west side of the county) has a "roadkill list" they go down the line on freshly hit deer. Responding officer asks the victim if they want it, if not, the LEO notifies dispatch to start the list. First one that answers the call can come get it. This way, its always fresh. Being realistic, of the many dozen I've butchered there is always some waste. Unless just the head was hit, you can expect to lose at least 1/4 in my experience. But 3/4 is better than nothing, and I didn't have to burn a tag. We advised people to call the possum cop and get a road kill tag (it doesn't cost anything). I doubt most actually follow through.

I get atleast two a year off the road, usually more. Fall during the rut is prime time but you can snag a few in spring as well. They taste fine, use reasonable judgement and don't bother with anything bloodshot. If they are hit hard I take the back straps and any good quarters, if they aren't bad I take the back straps and all quarters then gut them and let the dogs eat the neck/ribs etc.

if theres a lot of road kills theirs to many any way take a hour and shoot one and do it right after all do you run over the pigs and beef before you butcher it to bruise the meat and break a lot of bones but its your choice not me i will eat #1 choice deer

Quite condescending. I'm betting most posting on the question also shoot plenty of deear each year. I used to shoot between 7 and 14 a year.. now I seldom shoot any or take a gun I hunt with my kids. Now that shoot as many as I used to.

That said I'm not to good to pick up a road kill. Hey I didn't have yo waste that hour or 3 hunting and the resource is not going to waste.

Come down off your pedestal and try it sometime you will be quite surprised.

There's no hunting anywhere near this spot for miles. You just made a generalized statement and knew nothing about the situation.