My wife saw someone in our neighborhood hit a deer and called me to come shoot it. I wisely called NRP to report it and went to meet an officer there. Deer was dead by the time I hopped in the car and drive over. Called them back and told them never mind, didn’t need an officer to put the poor animal down.
Asked about a road kill tag. “Just report it on compass as a non-harvest kill”.
No such option.
Called DNR licensing. Lady I spoke to never heard of reporting road kill through compass, “I think you need a road kill tag from MDSP”.
Yup, I’d heard that.
Called Waterloo barracks as I am in HoCo, “what’s a road kill tag? Why would you report a road kill deer? I don’t know, if you want to take it to a butcher I guess you can do that”
Called Westminster and the desk officer’s response was, “oh yeah. DNR hasn’t given us road kill tags in years. I can give you an incident case number in case your butcher hassles you.” *2 minutes later* “there you go. Enjoy your day and your venison”
Of course my butcher and another I called are closed for the season. Duh.
Called my buddy in the neighborhood. No response. Probably driving home from work.
**** it. Strung it up outside my shed. Skinned it, quarters it and grabbed the back straps off her and the neck and outer rib meat. Dumped the rest back in the woods. Vulture and crows will eat well tomorrow.
Not exactly how I’d planned trying my hand at butchering my first deer, but it worked fine. Took a little less than 2 hours including at least 15 minutes of figuring where to hang her to butcher her. Wife and kids nixed the swing set. Put a bolt in to the shed and hauled her up outside the she and skin and quarter her. I need to get a gambrel and chain hoist for next time. Too much friction with the hemp rope I was using. I had to lift the deer while my wife tied it off. Doe must have been 120 live weight and I didn’t field dress it first. Figure she’d be a hell of a mess and planned on skipping the cavity meat.
Anyway, got it fairly clean with my first try. I don’t think I left more than 3-4lbs of meat on it outside of what was in the body cavity. Car hit broke her back right hip clean in half and probably mushed her rumen, kidney(s) and maybe liver at a guess. No rib or spine damage, but was dripping blood from her mouth and nose while she was hanging.
Ge got some slow cooked back strap on the grill now, rice, broccoli and fries going right now. I’d be better prepared for a nice meal I knew I was going to be eating super fresh venison tonight!
Oh well. Very happy. Going to work on butchering the quarters tomorrow as I was already taking the day off. And I’ll reload some 32acp as planned if I have the time.
All and all I really awesome end to my work week (wife called me as I was logging off work for the day). Not sure how much my wife will allow me to butcher deer and damn it’s a lot of work. Plus my butcher (M&G) makes some awesome hotdogs and kielbasa. So I am sure going to be continuing to drop some of my deer off with them, but I sure plan to butcher some of my deer from now on.
Asked about a road kill tag. “Just report it on compass as a non-harvest kill”.
No such option.
Called DNR licensing. Lady I spoke to never heard of reporting road kill through compass, “I think you need a road kill tag from MDSP”.
Yup, I’d heard that.
Called Waterloo barracks as I am in HoCo, “what’s a road kill tag? Why would you report a road kill deer? I don’t know, if you want to take it to a butcher I guess you can do that”
Called Westminster and the desk officer’s response was, “oh yeah. DNR hasn’t given us road kill tags in years. I can give you an incident case number in case your butcher hassles you.” *2 minutes later* “there you go. Enjoy your day and your venison”
Of course my butcher and another I called are closed for the season. Duh.
Called my buddy in the neighborhood. No response. Probably driving home from work.
**** it. Strung it up outside my shed. Skinned it, quarters it and grabbed the back straps off her and the neck and outer rib meat. Dumped the rest back in the woods. Vulture and crows will eat well tomorrow.
Not exactly how I’d planned trying my hand at butchering my first deer, but it worked fine. Took a little less than 2 hours including at least 15 minutes of figuring where to hang her to butcher her. Wife and kids nixed the swing set. Put a bolt in to the shed and hauled her up outside the she and skin and quarter her. I need to get a gambrel and chain hoist for next time. Too much friction with the hemp rope I was using. I had to lift the deer while my wife tied it off. Doe must have been 120 live weight and I didn’t field dress it first. Figure she’d be a hell of a mess and planned on skipping the cavity meat.
Anyway, got it fairly clean with my first try. I don’t think I left more than 3-4lbs of meat on it outside of what was in the body cavity. Car hit broke her back right hip clean in half and probably mushed her rumen, kidney(s) and maybe liver at a guess. No rib or spine damage, but was dripping blood from her mouth and nose while she was hanging.
Ge got some slow cooked back strap on the grill now, rice, broccoli and fries going right now. I’d be better prepared for a nice meal I knew I was going to be eating super fresh venison tonight!
Oh well. Very happy. Going to work on butchering the quarters tomorrow as I was already taking the day off. And I’ll reload some 32acp as planned if I have the time.
All and all I really awesome end to my work week (wife called me as I was logging off work for the day). Not sure how much my wife will allow me to butcher deer and damn it’s a lot of work. Plus my butcher (M&G) makes some awesome hotdogs and kielbasa. So I am sure going to be continuing to drop some of my deer off with them, but I sure plan to butcher some of my deer from now on.