Posted: 11/12/2010 5:03:43 PM EDT
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Just spotted for the first time a headless deer carcass on the side of the road. I am not sure if it was road kill and then decapitated or it was taken in the field then dumped.
I wanted to stop and get pics but it was (and this is the weird thingy .....) on an entrance ramp to a main roadway?? My gut is it was road kill, only reason is why take it in the field and go through the trouble of dragging it to your truck...then dump it on a main road?? I real regret not getting pics because the head was sawed cleanly off, I image a hacksaw?? Anyone ever seen this before? Ray |
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Did you see a spinal cord?
I have seen dead deer that have their own head bent underneath their body to appear the head was removed when really their neck was just broken. I would not poach ever, but I especially would not poach and then drop the body off on the freeway to "hide the evidence". |
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A friend of mine got to work one day,missing one of his workers.
After a half hour he showed up. He had hit a 10 pointer on his way in, and used his thumb to get to the job site. My buddy wanted to see the buck so they jumped in his car and took off. They get to the crash site,and it looked like something out of Friday the 13. Someone used a chainsaw to take the head.. ,what a fucken mess it made. We see it all the time in upstate NY. |
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Roadkill. Big racked buck got hit on the freeway here the other day. Guy on county road crew took the antlers. Here in Michigan I believe they can sign the deer over to the driver if you hit one.
When I lived in South Dakota each county dispatcher had a sign up list for road kill deer. If one got hit they called the next person on the list and they could go pick the deer up. Where I worked bunch of guys would sign up and we would send someone to pick up the deer and get together after work to butcher it if it was in good condition and then have a bar-b-que at work later. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Some people have a bizarre obsession with mounting food's heads all over the place. Agree. Trophy hunting never resonated with me. I hunt for food/byproducts. I dunno after i dress thanksgiving dinner I staple the neckbone onto the wall and show it off. |
| If I was driving down the road, and saw a big old 8 pointer on the side of the road dead, rack still intact, Id cut the head off for the antlers.. Once I got it home I would cut the rack of the proper way, hang it up in the old garage, next to all the other antlers sheds I find... I actually know a guy who walks down the middle of split lane highways for this very purpose, he has some really nice racks, he makes lamps, door handles and various other redneck projects... |
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At work today I mentioned the headless deer to a customer who I know well, he is also a hunter, He said that there had been a few more headless deer found in the same county over the last couple weeks.
I am not a fan of deer. I put them on the same level as rats!! So I am not upset over their death. Just not a good idea to leave there headless carcass for the local antis to bitch about. I wonder how quick you could decapitate a deer with a hacksaw.......30sec?? |
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Illegal in Texas, roadkill or not, if it's a game animal. I'm pretty sure that you can claim a roadkill deer in New York, but you have to remove the carcass. It wouldn't surprise me if some idiot cut off the head and had it mounted because of the rack. |
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Sometmes Fish and game will take the heads of road kill where I work. I'm not sure why though. Probably checking for various neurological diseases in the population or discourage trophy collectors. Or because they want the Trophy head for themselves... |
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Sometmes Fish and game will take the heads of road kill where I work. I'm not sure why though. Probably checking for various neurological diseases in the population or discourage trophy collectors. They will do it to check for blue tongue and chronic wasting disease. |
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At work today I mentioned the headless deer to a customer who I know well, he is also a hunter, He said that there had been a few more headless deer found in the same county over the last couple weeks. I am not a fan of deer. I put them on the same level as rats!! So I am not upset over their death. Just not a good idea to leave there headless carcass for the local antis to bitch about. I wonder how quick you could decapitate a deer with a hacksaw.......30sec?? Deer I shot two days ago with crossbow dropped in its tracks with a spine shot. It was still alive so I pulled out my buck knife and slit its throat easily. Last year I butchered three deer and with a hacksaw and knife you can get a deer head off pretty fast but if you are going to have a mount done we take the deer to someone to cape it out. If you shoot a deer around here they have check stations where the DNR will take the head off your deer and check it for disease if you want. If someone is cutting the head off a roadkill and they just take the head they are doing it for the antlers or a skull mount. My brother has a collection of his smaller kills skull mounted. example of skull mount 
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Some people have a bizarre obsession with mounting food's heads all over the place. Agree. Trophy hunting never resonated with me. I hunt for food/byproducts. No reason you can't do both. My dad has an extremely nice 14 point on the wall at home. That was a big deer and we and the relatives and neighbors got a lot of good meat from it. He shot it in November and we were still eating venison once a week or so on in to April. |
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Road kill with large rack ! Probably this. And senseless. What kind of trophy is it when you did nothing to earn it? Just antlers. Senseless? When a deer is killed by a vehicle and is just going to lay on the side of the road to be eaten by coyotes, ravens, crows and vultures? There happens to be a market for antlers for a variety of uses....................... But I guess some people would rather have them sit on the roadside and let the porcupines eat them? http://www.cdnantler.com/specials.htm# http://www.crookedcreekantlerart.com/Antler-Knives_c_136.html I guess it is senseless to some that antlers laying on the side of the road could be worth money. Would you walk by a $100.00 bill laying on the ground instead of bending over to pick it up? I guess it is pretty senseless that the Boy Scouts have an antler shed auction and that troops go around collecting shed antlers? |