I put a road killed buck in the freezer in October. Not a single bruise on the meat, his neck was broken.

Put 4 in the freezer last year from the side of main road in town here. It's my normal route home from work at 730am and the pickings were ripe with all of the snow. Still enjoying venison sausage!

it is illegal to take anything from a roadkil whitetail in texas, but other animals can be used. i found a grey fox with out any damage to the pelt, skinned it and had it tanned. it is very soft and looks great. after skinning it i found a big bruise along the back thigh area but there were no tears. i cannot sell it without a fur bearer license, but i can tan it for myself with just a hunting license, so i did. i am not interested in raccoons, possums and armadilloos, so i leave them alone.

Many, many years ago I worked for the Colorado Dept of Highways. I did highway maintenance in the area between Kremmling, Colorado and Steamboat Springs, Colorado along HWY 40, HWY6 and HWY 131. That's about 150 miles of highway.

Because we were out on the road every day, we saw a lot of roadkill deer and elk. And, because he maintained the HWYs and did the plowing etc... we knew how fresh they were. We were allowed to salvage them. All we had to do was notify the game warden, easy to do because all the trucks had state radios, and he would leave a roadkill permit at the maintenance shed.

During the winter migration, we had lots of muiles run over. So we would field dress them and let the game warden know where they were. He would arrange to have them picked up and delivered to people that were poor or down on their luck. In that area, a lot of low income familes ate a lot of meat killed by skiers on their way to the slopes.

Never understood why some states won't allow the animals to be utilized. Seems wasteful to me.

Tennessee was the butt of many a joke in the press several when the "legalized " rodkill claims.

Note some state caught flack recently for the same thing.

Journalist all know that meat comes from the grocery store and that it is grown inside protective plastic wrap on the foam tray.

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Originally posted by Flags:
Never understood why some states won't allow the animals to be utilized. Seems wasteful to me.

Yeah, no doubt. But many states still have these anti roadkill laws in effect. The rational is that if they legalized the taking of roadkill, people would go out of their way to run down deer.

This is the perfect example of a law that is "legal" but not ethical.

These are the laws that should be broken.

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Originally posted by TCLouis:
Journalist all know that meat comes from the grocery store and that it is grown inside protective plastic wrap on the foam tray.

Journalists? That describes 98% of the people who eat meat(including some hunters and fishermen).

Young boy at the gas station:
Nice bear you got there Mr. Gojoe. What did you git him with? Your 30'06?

Mr. Gojoe:
Nope I used a 351 Cleveland

Last year I hunted elk for a week,in the sawtooths.Just couldnt get on them for various reasons.A week later was driving home from Boise late at night on the flatlands,hit a huge cow elk with my wifes mini van.4,000 dollars later.Does anyone else see the irony in this?This year they changed the law to salvage road kill.