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It's not gun season yet, I don't think. This must have been shot with a bow?
This photo, by the way, was shot while driving. And NO, I wasn't looking through the viewfinder. I was watching the road as I should.(
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Bow season. Venison, mmmm.
Posted 22 months ago.
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Any chance it was hit by the car? As in not
on purpose.
Posted 21 months ago.
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You never know! But I think the way the rack
is proudly displayed outside the truck bed
says: "I shot this with me bow!"
Posted 21 months ago.
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Yeah, I had a feeling my comment was a bit
naive. It also doesn't look hurt in a way
that might result from an accidental crash.
Posted 21 months ago.
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This may sound disgusting, but one reason to
get a deer license and the assoicated tags is
roadkill.
A hunting license gives you permission to
legally kill (harvest or take in
regulationese) certain animals under certain
circumstances using certain methods. The
license also gives you the legal right to
possess the dead animal(s). (If you get
pulled over with a couple of dead geese in
your car trunk during goose season and you
don't have a goose license you will go to
jail.)
In general there are tags associated with
the license. For very small, fast-reproducing
game like mourning doves there are no tags,
but oversight of the limits. For game that is
in flux--turkeys, waterfowl--there is a
tagging and phone-in system. You are given a
number of sticky tags that match the limit
and you affix them to any kills. When you
leave the hunting area you have a certain
number of hours to call the game authorities
to tell them what you have "taken."
They do that because they have animal
population estimates and they want to avoid
Passenger pigeon duplicates.
So here's the reason to get a deer license
and the associated tags: If you happen on
freshly roadkilled deer you can
"take" it if you can tag and report
it. You can't do that if you don't have the
tags. (Of course getting the license makes no
sense if you are not in an area with lots of
deer roadkills.)
Cleanly killed, fresh road killed deer are
every bit as okay to eat as one shot by a
hunter (assuming the digestive tract is
unbroken). And venison is tasty.
Sorry for the lecture.
And Scott, another reason for the open
tailgate was probably the effort to cool the
carcass.
Posted 21 months ago.
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Wow, that's all quite interesting, I had no
idea. Thanks KD.
On another note, this license plate would go perfectly on this truck (well,
unless KD's story is more relevant here and
it was road kill).
Posted 21 months ago.
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After my lecture I picked up a copy of the
digest of Illinois hunting regulations
because a friend and I are planning to go
duck hunting and I found there a new roadkill
regulations. Basically all you have to do is
to keep a record of when and where the
roadkill occurred until you have eaten all
the meat.
Posted 21 months ago.
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A handy tip!
Posted 21 months ago.
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