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@ 12:19 am (GMT) |
Andrew MurrayI wasn't sure if this should go in the hunting or game recipes forums...A friend was returning from night shift and on they way into our town noticed a car pulled over with a tow truck. The vehicle had hit quite a large stag, full antlers, about 200kg was the estimate, we have Rusa deer around here (introduced via deer farms that went bust or fences that were lost to storm damage etc). The driver was speaking with the tow truck driver as the vehicle had substantial damage preparing to load up About an hour later the friend was driving back the other way to meet someone and noted that the antlers and back straps had already been removed and by the end of the day the entire carcass was gone. Only in my town could such a thing happen. |
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@ 01:24 am (GMT) |
mark korteRe: VenisonHere in Montana it is legal to pick up road kills of deer, pronghorn, elk and moose. This is a recent change in the law. One has to register on line for a "salvage" tag and you have to remove the entire carcass (including the entrails) from the site. Other than the possibility of encouraging idiots with big bumpers it seems like a reasonable idea. I have not done it and would want to be sure of the vintage of the carcass, but other than that I can't see whats wrong with using whatever meat is salvageable. As for those big bumper cowboys, such behavior is sure to catch up to them at some point - probably the first time they decide their bumper is up to taking on an elk. Internet photos sure to follow. |
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@ 01:21 pm (GMT) |
Andrew MurrayRe: VenisonHi Mark,My apologies if I had caused offence. It was more a stab at my town. We live in an area of NSW, Australia that has some of the highest Social-economic status people due to the vineyards and some of the lowest due to the large prison and social housing areas. It was also a stab at someone taking the antlers (for what I assume is trophy purposes) when they had nothing to do with hunting/stalking the animal. I don't imagine roadkill would be that tasty given the traumatic nature of the death with heavy bruising and possibly a drawn out stressful death with high cortisol level. Then again, I wouldn't know as I've never eaten it. We get plenty of dead kangaroos around here. They are like pests in some places. |
@ 06:10 pm (GMT) |
Paul CartyRe: VenisonHi Andrew,It turns out I'm actually not too far from you and yes the deer can be a pest at times. There was a good size red stag hit and killed just off the freeway over Christmas. I went back for a look and it was a bit too aged for my liking but rest assured if the eyes were clear and the blood still wet it'd have ended up in my freezer. Waste not want not I say. I can't see a problem with scooping up fresh road kill, at least for pet food purposes. It seems quite a waste when you see the number of "wallaby meat packs" that go to waste because of that one silly law. |
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@ 09:59 pm (GMT) |
Andrew MurrayRe: VenisonHey Paul.I'm heading out to Cessnock rifle range if you're free tomorrow? Would love to meet you and say gday. Seems my thinking is a little more reserved when it comes to road kill. You are right about he meat being a waste as far as feeding the dogs at the very least. As for me personally I'm nt sure I could go there. Maybe I'm just being a bit snobbish? |
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@ 01:41 am (GMT) |
mark korteRe: VenisonAndrew -No offence at all. I've made plenty of looking-down-the-nose jokes about eating road kill. For myself, I'd take Paul's view and if the blood was fresh I'd do it now that its legal. Even if only half of it was salvageable its still half a deer or whatever. The problem here is that you have to remove the entire animal from the scene, not just the choice parts. As for the horns - the sort that would display roadkill antlers as their own accomplishment would likely go to whatever lengths necessary to get them anyway. You can usually figure out these folks with a couple questions and write them and their "trophies" off as yet another unfortunate cross section of the human race. Do wallabies taste good? I'm not sure I could bring myself to shoot one, though that's probably just my N. American ignorance shining thru. |
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@ 08:18 am (GMT) |
Paul CartyRe: VenisonAndrew, thanks for the offer but I'm at work and doing family stuff this week. Would be interested in catching up at a later date though.I'm not sure what wallaby tastes like as I've not eaten one, but I'd imagine alot like too, which is OK, but I prefer beef and pork and regularly eat goat. In regard to shooting wallabies, they're protected and hefty fines apply, in the order of $10000 if I remember rightly. You can get permits to cull some species of kangaroo and some can be harvested under commercial licenses. There are as many opinions out there as there are people and I know a lot won't agree with me , but I just think it's a shame to let perfectly good meat knocked over by cars and under cull permits go to waste because the law says we can't be in possesion. |
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