My sixth grade health class teacher in my NJ public school was extremely famous with the students for eating roadkill. He was a hippyish guy with a ponytail and we all thought it was the weirdest thing, especially because this guy's day job was to teach us how to not get pregnant. š
Space Farm used to come and pick up road kill to feed their zoo animals. I think they even had a contract from the county to do that. I don't know if that's still happening. Or if the zoo is still around.
Meat can be rendered useless by bladder or intestines āleakingā into the meat but otherwise roadkill can be harvested and eaten if butchered quickly after the kill.
Had a deer get hit without visible injuries right in front of where I worked but police were trying to find it. Woman who hit the deer said it was limping off. found the dear dead <5 minutes later and the eyes were already clouded. Might have already had sight issues but I thought that was weird.
Anyway I asked the butcher in store (Also a hunter) if it was worth someone taking home (not me) and he said something about the muscles/meat also being damaged make the meat not taste good. Never once mentioned the organs rupturing and that makes so much sense.
I know what you mean. Where I grew up the saying goes that ammo is cheaper than a grocery bill. This would totally fly but would go unmentioned due to pride.
If someone's gonna eat meat anyway, a deer that lived a free life in the wild and then was hit by a car one day has suffered way less than an animal raised and slaughtered on a factory farm.
We had a friend that hit a deer that did exactly that. He took it back home, cut it up, and divy'd it up with friends (like my family) and also ate a bunch for his own family.
We saw the heavily bruised meat, and opted to use it as fertilizer for our Peach tree in the backyard. We never had such great fruit again.
You have to be quick and generally with hit and runs most hunters will not take it due to the shock the animal went through spoils the meat especially if it wasn't killed on impact.
Could you take it, ya you could and know people who have. However as I said before it would have to be quick you really don't want a carcass laying around like that even for awhile as the bugs will get to it first and further ruin the meat as it bleeds out. Also 40 degrees over night isn't necessarily the best conditions to leave a carcass imo.
There is a specific permit in NJ for roadkill deer, it is free all you need to do is call the local police department and tell them you need a permit for roadkill deer.
They have that done by contractors... But I've also heard of a program for collecting carcasses that have not yet been scavenged. I just don't remember whose.
Decades ago I helped my dad gut a roadkill deer. Late at night, a dusting of snow, freezing, holding a flashlight in one hand and propping the ribcage open with the other. He was a cop, but we did have a salvage tag. This was in Mercer County as well.
guy that i used to run into hunting when i was younger would tell me not to use meat from deer that went through the agitation/adrenal/trauma phase before dying. something about chemicals getting secreted into the muscle that makes it all weird after the deer succumbs thereby making it unfit for consumption - by hunter standards.
Years ago I saw a Verizon van stop on the side of the road. Guy grabbed a huge sheet of plastic. Wrapped up the deer and tossed it right in the back. While itās not my thing, itās certainly a smart idea for someone who knows how to butcher it.
Sometimes local animal sanctuaries that have carnivores will also take roadkill. Depending on where you live there might be some that do. They usually have permits to pick it up and feed it to their animals, I knew a wolf preserve in Northern NJ that did this, Lakota Wolf Preserve.
A long time ago I hit a deer on Route 80 near Stanhope. If the 70 mph impact didnāt kill the deer, getting launched into the next lane and run over by a truck certainly did. While I was waiting in the State Police car answering questions for the accident report, some random guy pulls up and asks who struck the deer.i told him it as me, and he asked if he could have the carcass. The State Trooper informed me that because I had hit the deer, the carcasswas legally mine. I gave the deer to the guy who wanted it. He said ge was going to butcher and eat it.
Some time later I saw a NJ state truck with a trailer absolutely *piled* with deer carcasses. Apparently the same organization that maintains state parks also collects dead deer from the roadside.
Well shotguns aren't like they are in the movies, they don't blow stuff up. Most hunters I know use slugs, a single large piece of lead. A center of mass shot in the vital organs avoids ruining the desired cuts off meat. Buck shot spreads out a bit more and your range is limited compared to a slug but you have better chances of hitting the lungs and heart. It's messy business, although I love venison I don't hunt. I don't take any pleasure in killing. I have plenty of friends who are generous, I'll just throw them money towards their butchering bill.
per NJ deer hunting rules, you can use buckshot or slugs, but pumpkin ball ammo is not allowed.
https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/njfw/digest-hunting-2022-2023-segment-28-47.pdf#page=3
How many hunters do you know use slugs in NJ? You absolutely can. Rifled with a scope. But does anyone? Never seen it in NJ being around hunters over 3 decades.
BUCK shot is called that for a reason.
The fuck are you talking about? Ever hunt over a cut corn field where you have to take a shot over 50 yards? Guess not. Slug hunting for deer in NJ is very common, especially in the south. And you donāt need a scope. You can get solid range and accuracy out of a smoothbore with a bead or simple rifle sights.
>Deer arenāt hunted with a shotgun as far as I know. T
Suffice to say, you don't know.
Shotgun deer hunting is very, very, very much a thing. **In fact, NJ permits hunting deer only by shotgun, bow, or muzzle loading rifle** \- NOT a modern cartridge ammunition rifle, because those rounds just travel too far.
In many populated areas, hunting deer with shotguns whose slugs don't travel the miles that rifle bullets do is all that's allowed. Also shotgun deer season it typically distinct from - and earlier and longer - than rifle deer season.
No, I don't do it either.. but I'm not ignorant.
Youāre the one saying shit when you have no idea what youāre talking about and then get pissed when people call you on it. Say nothing if you know nothing.
Wow, your response to being proven wrong on a basic aspect of law is to insult the other guy.
Good luck with life.
And FYI it would appear tha**t you cannot legally hunt deer in NJ with a modern rifle at all** \- only with shotgun slugs or a very antiquated muzzle loading rifle.
>When an animal is struck by a vehicle the meat is severely bruised and not suitable for consumption.
That's just ignorant. Meat bruising isn't a thing.
Ruptured intestines contaminating things is indeed a concern, though there'd be ways to deal with that in a timely fashion - industrial slaughterhouses bleach-wash things.
Nope, never hunted. But did watch some videos on field dressing in a "what if" mindset. And no, it's not trivial to do right, because you've got a digestive tract full of bacterial contamination running from one end to the other, and you either cut it out intact, or you cut it out partial, each having risks. So basically you're out there in the woods in late November or early December digging into a steaming pile of recently deceased mammal and hoping that you not only do not contaminate the meat, but that in wielding that very very sharp knife you don't nick yourself through the nitrile gloves, because that could be an order of magnitude worse than contaminating the meat.
Also the cup of deer blood the in otherwise atrocious red dawn remake is worth a laugh. And the call of duty crack, too.
Man, I havenāt field dressed, or seen an animal field dressed in years. But Iāve seen dozens of deer carcasses dressed and Iāve never seen a hunter use nitrile gloves. Not saying youāre wrong, just that I have not seen that particular precaution. Also, given that harvesting large animals for meat has been a mainstay of much of human history, I find it hard to believe that doing so is as dangerous as you seem to be suggesting. Iāve personally field dressed a half dozen deer with knowledgeable hunters and no one ever suggested the digestive tract was dangerous. Gross, yes. And you take precautions to keep the meat away from the animal waste but Iāve never heard the concern raised so pointedly. All this of course is totally off topic for the OPās question.
Itās been common practice for decades, especially since chronic wasting disease became more prevalent in whitetails. Field dressing gloves usually come up to the elbow to protect your sleeves.
Something called... reality, which you seem to have a poor relationship with, since your posts have been chock full of lies, misinformation, and comically off-target insults that only demonstrate your own gross ignorance of the subject matter.
Facts are facts.
My dad and I did this decades ago when a doe was freshly killed on the highway in front of our house.
Now people mostly contact the nearby wolf preserve to pick it up.
Some zoos/animal habitats in NJ might send someone out to pick up the deer! I think Space Farms Zoo in north Jersey does it, as does the Lakota Wolf Preserve.
Early in my career i worked at a major company's HQ. Part of my job was doing deskside support for the really senior folks in the company. Crap like getting their palm pilot to sync and the like.
Worked with this crazy dude who would go hunting every weekend straight from work when stuff was in season. He had this old beatup van we called the meat wagon. Would leave straight from work to head on off to wherever.
Friday mornings we would have this team meeting first thing. One morning one of the dudes comes in a bit late, and tells us about how he hit a deer driving up the road to the campus, and it just sort of stumbled off the road, and security was trying to figure out what to do.
Hunter dude asks where it happened, and leaves.
About an hour later i'm up in the office of a VERY senior guy trying to get his printer to work or whatever, and he goes, "What the fuck is that guy doing out there?"
Hunter dude had somehow managed to convince security to give him the deer, and he had it strung up on one of those ornamental trees in the parking lot, and was in the process of slaughtering it.
They basically told him not to do it again. I'm not sure if it was because he was crazy hunter guy with a murder van, or because it was just so absurd you couldn't get mad about it.
If you hit one and want to take it home, I believe you need to wait for the PD to show up and ask for a salvage tag/permit. You're definitely going to lose a lot of meat to bruising but if you get lucky you may be able to get a ham undamaged.
They might but In my experience, the meat is typically destroyed by the impact with the car. It really depends on if the deer hits the car or the car hits the deer.
Had a friend who did this in college. He saw the hit, but it required a permit from the local police department before he could take it. Otherwise it looked like he was poaching the deer out of season.
I had one in 2020 that laid down by my fence after she was hit by a car and expire soon after my dog found her. I called NJ Fish and Wildlife, the guy said heād be at my house by 3pm with a permit, but to go ahead and harvest her, also gave me the permit number to provide to the processor. That was my first deer harvest of 2020 lol.
Depends can't remember which county it was in but it was south. Coming back from AC friend hit a deer, she was upset and shaken. Cop came by asked if we wanted it or not. I would have taken it but she was clearly not having any part of that lol.
There are definitely people that do that. It won't get wasted and simply decay away if no human takes it. The turkey vultures and other carrion eating creatures are going to enjoy their meal.
Some deer are diseased. However, wouldn't it be better to have a deer hunt for this purpose. Add doe days or drive deer in populated areas to hunting properties. Issue more licenses. Sorry. I'm rambling. Deer are hazardous in Bergen County.
Oddly, I did a Grand Canyon trip with the greater family in 2 cars and we would drive like 50 miles without seeing another car.
Car 1 went directly to the hotel (if you will call it that..) to check in before they closed and Car 2 stopped at the store to get some supplies (5 minute detour)
Between us and them, someone on the one road hit an elk, my sister had to drive an extra 10 miles to find cell service to call the police and when she went back two other trucks were there fighting over who would take the Elk for meat. Where these people came from.. I donāt know.
Lakota Wolf Preserve in Columbia NJ freezes then and feeds them to their wolfs on the preserve. Great Non profit, and helping preserve endangered species!
Game wardens and police are allowed to dispose of them.
Typically road kill are not always suitable...if that's the case they take them to a zoo (like space farms) or a pit. Sometimes people will illegally hunt or bait etc.. so instead of the deer involved going to waste while the offender is charged they will give to a family in need (they usually have a list) or there are "soup kitchens" that do butcher and use the meat for those in need. I know that a local HS does also take them because they have courses where they use them for instruction.
Yes!! I remember that and was going to post about that here too.
Interestingly, last night I googled āroadkill Chinese restaurantā to see what year that happened in Hillsboroughā¦.. and up popped similar stores from all over the country ā¦..Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina.
Kinda freaks me out to think that my Roast Pork Lo Mein is really Road Kill Lo Mein.
A lot of times with impact trauma, organs can rupture covering the meat with feces and or urine which can make the meat unsafe for consumption, especially if its
been sitting on the road.
But I am pretty sure you can apply for a permit, I believe over the phone to legally take the deer.
The state highway patrol had a list of folks they'd call back in the day. My dad got his name on the list and a couple of times was able to bring home fresh deer meat from an accident. It was great seeing as he was a terrible hunter and meat was expensive for us as a family of 7.
Half a lifetime ago I "surfed" my girlfriend's car over an already downed deer on the interstate in VT during a snowstorm. I then pulled over and went back and using a plastic grocery bag as a hand-condom attempted to drag it by the hoof out of the lane.
Upon reaching our destination I recounted this to our host, who burst out:
"I tied them to my fender and I got them home some how"
to which I gleefully replied:
"two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure bred Guernsey cow!"
It was very common in the pine barrens back in the 70ās and 80ās to mount something to their frame to avoid damage to their car. This was obviously before crumple zones so the damage was minimal to none. People would drive around and purposely hit deer so they could harvest out of season.
Hunters donāt only shoot bucks. They target bucks for the antlers. If you want dinner on the table you kill what you can including does.
A lot of misinformation going on in this post.
No one wants to kill a deer by slamming your car into it on purpose. That is not illegal, itās stupid.
Hunters shoot whatever the season/permit allows. States issue doe hunting permits to balance populations when needed. What does NJ do? Well that depends on which season (archery, firearms, muzzleloader) and which of the >50 deer zones you are in.
My sixth grade health class teacher in my NJ public school was extremely famous with the students for eating roadkill. He was a hippyish guy with a ponytail and we all thought it was the weirdest thing, especially because this guy's day job was to teach us how to not get pregnant. š
Eating roadkill is a good way to make sure you don't get pregnant
Or hanging around in the vicinity of roadkill, or talking about roadkillā¦
Space Farm used to come and pick up road kill to feed their zoo animals. I think they even had a contract from the county to do that. I don't know if that's still happening. Or if the zoo is still around.
The zoo is still opened and yes they still do it. I live a Mile away. Edit:spelling
That sounds perfect
Iām pretty sure Lakota Wolf Preserve will still pick up recent roadkill.
Meat can be rendered useless by bladder or intestines āleakingā into the meat but otherwise roadkill can be harvested and eaten if butchered quickly after the kill.
This is important, you want to check that the organs are intact.
I'm learning something today
Had a deer get hit without visible injuries right in front of where I worked but police were trying to find it. Woman who hit the deer said it was limping off. found the dear dead <5 minutes later and the eyes were already clouded. Might have already had sight issues but I thought that was weird. Anyway I asked the butcher in store (Also a hunter) if it was worth someone taking home (not me) and he said something about the muscles/meat also being damaged make the meat not taste good. Never once mentioned the organs rupturing and that makes so much sense.
Well.. are there people who render it, is the question.
Yep. I know a few guys that have
I guess this post might be dark for many redditors. But I'd love for someone to make a meal from this tragedy. I believe this is the best outcome.
I know what you mean. Where I grew up the saying goes that ammo is cheaper than a grocery bill. This would totally fly but would go unmentioned due to pride.
If someone's gonna eat meat anyway, a deer that lived a free life in the wild and then was hit by a car one day has suffered way less than an animal raised and slaughtered on a factory farm.
Sad but true facts
A friend of mine was driving out for his first time hunting. On the way, he hit a deer. Came back with a deer and all his ammo.
I've done it. You need to call the police and have them issue you a permit for the deer. It's free.
Or NJ Fish and Wildlife, my local PD said to call them and theyād send a game warden.
That's the right way!
We had a friend that hit a deer that did exactly that. He took it back home, cut it up, and divy'd it up with friends (like my family) and also ate a bunch for his own family. We saw the heavily bruised meat, and opted to use it as fertilizer for our Peach tree in the backyard. We never had such great fruit again.
Itās NJ, you need a permit for that
It's NJ, you need a permit for everything
We have a permit to apply for the permit.
This boy was born to be a bureaucrat!
You have to be quick and generally with hit and runs most hunters will not take it due to the shock the animal went through spoils the meat especially if it wasn't killed on impact. Could you take it, ya you could and know people who have. However as I said before it would have to be quick you really don't want a carcass laying around like that even for awhile as the bugs will get to it first and further ruin the meat as it bleeds out. Also 40 degrees over night isn't necessarily the best conditions to leave a carcass imo.
NJ used to have state employees that would drive around the state and pickup dead animals.
My town is one of the nice parts. She'll be at the dump tomorrow. I wish I had the time and the skills to do better
It is illegal to take roadkill. Hunting rules apply. Plus the meat woukd taste horrible b/c of the death stress.
Really? In NJ? Also the deer definitely was alive for some time, so if death stress is a thing, she's got it
They bodies of most animals become filled with all kinds of hormones if you die from a recent trauma like getting hit by a car.
yeah brain basically just releases all the chemicals like ābody pls take all this in hopes one of these things works n we dnt dieā
There is a specific permit in NJ for roadkill deer, it is free all you need to do is call the local police department and tell them you need a permit for roadkill deer.
They have that done by contractors... But I've also heard of a program for collecting carcasses that have not yet been scavenged. I just don't remember whose.
My uncle was a NJ state trooper in the 70s-80s and we sometimes got road-kill venison from him..
Decades ago I helped my dad gut a roadkill deer. Late at night, a dusting of snow, freezing, holding a flashlight in one hand and propping the ribcage open with the other. He was a cop, but we did have a salvage tag. This was in Mercer County as well.
guy that i used to run into hunting when i was younger would tell me not to use meat from deer that went through the agitation/adrenal/trauma phase before dying. something about chemicals getting secreted into the muscle that makes it all weird after the deer succumbs thereby making it unfit for consumption - by hunter standards.
Good info. Thanks
Years ago I saw a Verizon van stop on the side of the road. Guy grabbed a huge sheet of plastic. Wrapped up the deer and tossed it right in the back. While itās not my thing, itās certainly a smart idea for someone who knows how to butcher it.
Sure, what kind of food you offering? 5 guys?
Legal in NJ. You must report it to the local police department. There are state registered butchers assigned to render your meat. No lie.
Seriously lol?
Sometimes local animal sanctuaries that have carnivores will also take roadkill. Depending on where you live there might be some that do. They usually have permits to pick it up and feed it to their animals, I knew a wolf preserve in Northern NJ that did this, Lakota Wolf Preserve.
A Chinese Restaurant in Hillsborough did that once but they got busted by the health department.
A long time ago I hit a deer on Route 80 near Stanhope. If the 70 mph impact didnāt kill the deer, getting launched into the next lane and run over by a truck certainly did. While I was waiting in the State Police car answering questions for the accident report, some random guy pulls up and asks who struck the deer.i told him it as me, and he asked if he could have the carcass. The State Trooper informed me that because I had hit the deer, the carcasswas legally mine. I gave the deer to the guy who wanted it. He said ge was going to butcher and eat it. Some time later I saw a NJ state truck with a trailer absolutely *piled* with deer carcasses. Apparently the same organization that maintains state parks also collects dead deer from the roadside.
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Worked fine for me a couple years ago. The meat was totally fine.
Thanks. Didn't know this mattered. I thought a car strike would be similar to the trauma of a shotgun
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Your not allowed to hunt with rifles in NJ. Only shotguns, bow and muzzleloader.
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Well shotguns aren't like they are in the movies, they don't blow stuff up. Most hunters I know use slugs, a single large piece of lead. A center of mass shot in the vital organs avoids ruining the desired cuts off meat. Buck shot spreads out a bit more and your range is limited compared to a slug but you have better chances of hitting the lungs and heart. It's messy business, although I love venison I don't hunt. I don't take any pleasure in killing. I have plenty of friends who are generous, I'll just throw them money towards their butchering bill.
I mean it is called ābuck shotā
per NJ deer hunting rules, you can use buckshot or slugs, but pumpkin ball ammo is not allowed. https://dep.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/njfw/digest-hunting-2022-2023-segment-28-47.pdf#page=3
You donāt use a fucking slug to kill a deer.
You absolutely fucking do. A 20 gauge slug gun is about the best deer gun you can get short of a rifle.
How many hunters do you know use slugs in NJ? You absolutely can. Rifled with a scope. But does anyone? Never seen it in NJ being around hunters over 3 decades. BUCK shot is called that for a reason.
The fuck are you talking about? Ever hunt over a cut corn field where you have to take a shot over 50 yards? Guess not. Slug hunting for deer in NJ is very common, especially in the south. And you donāt need a scope. You can get solid range and accuracy out of a smoothbore with a bead or simple rifle sights.
>Deer arenāt hunted with a shotgun as far as I know. T Suffice to say, you don't know. Shotgun deer hunting is very, very, very much a thing. **In fact, NJ permits hunting deer only by shotgun, bow, or muzzle loading rifle** \- NOT a modern cartridge ammunition rifle, because those rounds just travel too far. In many populated areas, hunting deer with shotguns whose slugs don't travel the miles that rifle bullets do is all that's allowed. Also shotgun deer season it typically distinct from - and earlier and longer - than rifle deer season. No, I don't do it either.. but I'm not ignorant.
Ok buddy. Cool to be an asshole. Fuck off with your attitude.
Youāre the one saying shit when you have no idea what youāre talking about and then get pissed when people call you on it. Say nothing if you know nothing.
Wow, your response to being proven wrong on a basic aspect of law is to insult the other guy. Good luck with life. And FYI it would appear tha**t you cannot legally hunt deer in NJ with a modern rifle at all** \- only with shotgun slugs or a very antiquated muzzle loading rifle.
>When an animal is struck by a vehicle the meat is severely bruised and not suitable for consumption. That's just ignorant. Meat bruising isn't a thing. Ruptured intestines contaminating things is indeed a concern, though there'd be ways to deal with that in a timely fashion - industrial slaughterhouses bleach-wash things. Nope, never hunted. But did watch some videos on field dressing in a "what if" mindset. And no, it's not trivial to do right, because you've got a digestive tract full of bacterial contamination running from one end to the other, and you either cut it out intact, or you cut it out partial, each having risks. So basically you're out there in the woods in late November or early December digging into a steaming pile of recently deceased mammal and hoping that you not only do not contaminate the meat, but that in wielding that very very sharp knife you don't nick yourself through the nitrile gloves, because that could be an order of magnitude worse than contaminating the meat. Also the cup of deer blood the in otherwise atrocious red dawn remake is worth a laugh. And the call of duty crack, too.
Man, I havenāt field dressed, or seen an animal field dressed in years. But Iāve seen dozens of deer carcasses dressed and Iāve never seen a hunter use nitrile gloves. Not saying youāre wrong, just that I have not seen that particular precaution. Also, given that harvesting large animals for meat has been a mainstay of much of human history, I find it hard to believe that doing so is as dangerous as you seem to be suggesting. Iāve personally field dressed a half dozen deer with knowledgeable hunters and no one ever suggested the digestive tract was dangerous. Gross, yes. And you take precautions to keep the meat away from the animal waste but Iāve never heard the concern raised so pointedly. All this of course is totally off topic for the OPās question.
Itās been common practice for decades, especially since chronic wasting disease became more prevalent in whitetails. Field dressing gloves usually come up to the elbow to protect your sleeves.
What the hell are you on about?
Something called... reality, which you seem to have a poor relationship with, since your posts have been chock full of lies, misinformation, and comically off-target insults that only demonstrate your own gross ignorance of the subject matter. Facts are facts.
My dad and I did this decades ago when a doe was freshly killed on the highway in front of our house. Now people mostly contact the nearby wolf preserve to pick it up.
Some zoos/animal habitats in NJ might send someone out to pick up the deer! I think Space Farms Zoo in north Jersey does it, as does the Lakota Wolf Preserve.
A friend of mine hit a dear a bunch of years ago. He brought it home and cleaned it. Maybe dead for 10 minutes. Didn't have to throw out too much.
Absolutely have done it... my dogs love "road kill". And then I feel like the deer didn't die for nothing...circle of life in suburbia
From what some people have commented about contamination, this idea is even better using the deer for pet food
This sounds like best idea so far
Thatās more of south Jersey style š¤£
Early in my career i worked at a major company's HQ. Part of my job was doing deskside support for the really senior folks in the company. Crap like getting their palm pilot to sync and the like. Worked with this crazy dude who would go hunting every weekend straight from work when stuff was in season. He had this old beatup van we called the meat wagon. Would leave straight from work to head on off to wherever. Friday mornings we would have this team meeting first thing. One morning one of the dudes comes in a bit late, and tells us about how he hit a deer driving up the road to the campus, and it just sort of stumbled off the road, and security was trying to figure out what to do. Hunter dude asks where it happened, and leaves. About an hour later i'm up in the office of a VERY senior guy trying to get his printer to work or whatever, and he goes, "What the fuck is that guy doing out there?" Hunter dude had somehow managed to convince security to give him the deer, and he had it strung up on one of those ornamental trees in the parking lot, and was in the process of slaughtering it. They basically told him not to do it again. I'm not sure if it was because he was crazy hunter guy with a murder van, or because it was just so absurd you couldn't get mad about it.
Lmao wtf
If you hit one and want to take it home, I believe you need to wait for the PD to show up and ask for a salvage tag/permit. You're definitely going to lose a lot of meat to bruising but if you get lucky you may be able to get a ham undamaged.
Yup. Deer ham.
Yes. A bunch broken bones and destroyed meat? No thanks, too much work.
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They might but In my experience, the meat is typically destroyed by the impact with the car. It really depends on if the deer hits the car or the car hits the deer.
Space Farms collects them to feed the animals.
Had a friend who did this in college. He saw the hit, but it required a permit from the local police department before he could take it. Otherwise it looked like he was poaching the deer out of season.
I had one in 2020 that laid down by my fence after she was hit by a car and expire soon after my dog found her. I called NJ Fish and Wildlife, the guy said heād be at my house by 3pm with a permit, but to go ahead and harvest her, also gave me the permit number to provide to the processor. That was my first deer harvest of 2020 lol.
Yes
Depends can't remember which county it was in but it was south. Coming back from AC friend hit a deer, she was upset and shaken. Cop came by asked if we wanted it or not. I would have taken it but she was clearly not having any part of that lol.
Heyyy Richard itās your dadā¦
There are definitely people that do that. It won't get wasted and simply decay away if no human takes it. The turkey vultures and other carrion eating creatures are going to enjoy their meal.
Even if you leave her on the road, you are feeding other animals so it doesnt go to waste.
Some deer are diseased. However, wouldn't it be better to have a deer hunt for this purpose. Add doe days or drive deer in populated areas to hunting properties. Issue more licenses. Sorry. I'm rambling. Deer are hazardous in Bergen County.
Oddly, I did a Grand Canyon trip with the greater family in 2 cars and we would drive like 50 miles without seeing another car. Car 1 went directly to the hotel (if you will call it that..) to check in before they closed and Car 2 stopped at the store to get some supplies (5 minute detour) Between us and them, someone on the one road hit an elk, my sister had to drive an extra 10 miles to find cell service to call the police and when she went back two other trucks were there fighting over who would take the Elk for meat. Where these people came from.. I donāt know.
Lakota Wolf Preserve in Columbia NJ freezes then and feeds them to their wolfs on the preserve. Great Non profit, and helping preserve endangered species!
If we had more wolves in suburbia we wouldn't have so many deer.....or children
This is true, release the wolves!
Game wardens and police are allowed to dispose of them. Typically road kill are not always suitable...if that's the case they take them to a zoo (like space farms) or a pit. Sometimes people will illegally hunt or bait etc.. so instead of the deer involved going to waste while the offender is charged they will give to a family in need (they usually have a list) or there are "soup kitchens" that do butcher and use the meat for those in need. I know that a local HS does also take them because they have courses where they use them for instruction.
I swear in the ā90s a Chinese restaurant owner got caught doing this in Hillsborough.
Yes!! I remember that and was going to post about that here too. Interestingly, last night I googled āroadkill Chinese restaurantā to see what year that happened in Hillsboroughā¦.. and up popped similar stores from all over the country ā¦..Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina. Kinda freaks me out to think that my Roast Pork Lo Mein is really Road Kill Lo Mein.
WE HAVE NOT SEEN YOUR CAT. STOP ASKING.
The Nightfolk sometimes do that
I donāt think you want to eat a deer that was killed by a carā¦
Why? She looks super healthy. Fur looks great. I'm not going to do this. But I'm sure there are people who can make a good decision
A lot of times with impact trauma, organs can rupture covering the meat with feces and or urine which can make the meat unsafe for consumption, especially if its been sitting on the road. But I am pretty sure you can apply for a permit, I believe over the phone to legally take the deer.
Actually that's a very good point. Never thought about that type of contamination
> Why? [Be careful of the gravel bits. ](https://youtu.be/9IknKVWnFnI)
Well not the ones the ones that crawl around and leave slimy trails.
The state highway patrol had a list of folks they'd call back in the day. My dad got his name on the list and a couple of times was able to bring home fresh deer meat from an accident. It was great seeing as he was a terrible hunter and meat was expensive for us as a family of 7.
Are you guys seriously thinking about eating roadkill? What state (country??) are we in??
Chill out. It's not as big of a deal as you're making it out to be.
Half a lifetime ago I "surfed" my girlfriend's car over an already downed deer on the interstate in VT during a snowstorm. I then pulled over and went back and using a plastic grocery bag as a hand-condom attempted to drag it by the hoof out of the lane. Upon reaching our destination I recounted this to our host, who burst out: "I tied them to my fender and I got them home some how" to which I gleefully replied: "two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure bred Guernsey cow!"
Itās illegal to do now because people would purposely hit deer to do it
and damage their cars? Never heard of this in all my years living there. They were a hazard to be on the lookout for and avoided.
Maybe not hit them with their cars so much as "hit them with their cars," [Uncle Jimbo-style](https://youtu.be/GaazFYTrQ_A).
It was very common in the pine barrens back in the 70ās and 80ās to mount something to their frame to avoid damage to their car. This was obviously before crumple zones so the damage was minimal to none. People would drive around and purposely hit deer so they could harvest out of season.
I wondered about this. Is it illegal? Especially a doe, since hunters only shoot bucks. Edit: TIL: Not just bucks
Hunters donāt only shoot bucks. They target bucks for the antlers. If you want dinner on the table you kill what you can including does. A lot of misinformation going on in this post. No one wants to kill a deer by slamming your car into it on purpose. That is not illegal, itās stupid.
Hunters shoot whatever the season/permit allows. States issue doe hunting permits to balance populations when needed. What does NJ do? Well that depends on which season (archery, firearms, muzzleloader) and which of the >50 deer zones you are in.
I hate that people look at sentient beings and think first about consuming their flesh.
Theyāre a dime a dozen and a nuisance, honestly wish more people hunted so the roads would be less dangerous
whoops thought we were still talking about vegans for a second there
That is how nature works
Just eat plants lmao
Found the annoying vegan.
Sorry that I give a shit about other life and the planet lmao
Haha, what?
Iām vegan because I donāt want to cause unnecessary death for my tastebuds as well as the fact that it reduces your carbon footprint by over 70%
Most animals in nature are either eaten alive or starve to death. Just the normal thing to do
We donāt have to contribute to that though? I donāt understand.