You Don't see these every day

[Chaffa Hosa]

Had to make a service call today and ran across this road kill
Its a young doe maybe 80 pounds
I almost loaded it up and brought it home
On a 12 mile stretch of 4 lane I saw 9 roadkill deer
This is why Mississippi is seriously considering opening deer season on Oct 1 until Jan 31 and hunt with any gun, bow or whatever you want

[Roaring Bull]

Almost would have been worth it just for the hide.....terrible shame, though.

I usually notice a LOT of deer kills on Louisiana roads, especially I-20...Guess they are all moving to Mississippi.

[Pitchy]

Hate to see those young ones like that.

[Chaffa Hosa]

Hate to see those young ones like that.

What's so bad is she is probably bred and the fawns had a chance to be like her

[old salt]

She sure was pretty,and it is a shame. Up here in Kansas we see that quite offten

[windwalker_au]

Had to make a service call today and ran across this road kill
Its a young doe maybe 80 pounds
I almost loaded it up and brought it home
On a 12 mile stretch of 4 lane I saw 9 roadkill deer
This is why Mississippi is seriously considering opening deer season on Oct 1 until Jan 31 and hunt with any gun, bow or whatever you want

jerry are you allowed to pick up road kill dear in your state,here in west oz if you see a road kill kangaroo you are not allowed to take it big fine if you are caught.
Bernie

[Chaffa Hosa]

As far as I know it is not Illegal to pick one up

[roundball]

This is why Mississippi is seriously considering opening deer season on Oct 1 until Jan 31 and hunt with any gun, bow or whatever you want

North Carolina is at least starting to have similar discussions...posting it as a proposal, getting a feel for what the hunters and the public feel about it, etc...the herd size just continues to expand...current hunting take doesn;t hold it in check...increased shrubbery damage, increased deer/car collisons, increased insurance costs, etc.

The past several years the number of deer tags each year grew up to 6, stabilized a couple years...then they added bonus doe tags...all free...no help...added urban archery seasons around neighbor hoods and towns where no hunting was previously allowed...no help.  Seems the problem is that the average hunter only takes one or 1.5 deer a year...so adding more and more tags doesn't result in anything of course...more hunter days afield and more days to use higher percentage weopons are the next best possibility.

We're one of only seven states left that has no Sunday hunting...so both Sunday hunting and extended seasons with any weapon are getting a lot of attention and discussion...

[williedee]

Roundball, do you think the paper companies preference for pine trees instead of mast- bearing hardwoods have much to do with the need for increased heard thinning? I'm from coastal N.C. where deer are plentiful but mostly small, probably due to competition for food. If not for farms, food plots, and grass along highways, It seems they would starve. No wonder they chow down on the well-to-dos shrubbery like they do in Landfall (near Wilmington)! Of course, there would be way less hunting land without the paper companies. NCDNR does a good job with what they have to work with no doubt. Any thoughts?

[DandJofAZ]

All you lucky hunters...here you might get a tag every ten years it lucky..brother in law very lucky--got his second in 3 years..me none in 3 years.

[Bear Medicine]

I see quite a lot of road kill deer in Texas and it's illegal to pick them up.  It's a damn shame all that meat going to waste most of the time. 

Where I grew up in South Alabama, there were more deer than in Texas and just about every state in the Union but I rarely saw a road kill.  Although I did have one tear up the whole side of my old Jeep Comanche truck outside Auburn, it didn't kill him.  A guy had to stop and take care of that as I didn't have gun or knife with me.  Another guy took it home with him.  It was a big 9-point buck too.