Any deer hunters here? If so, please be careful.

Hah! Modern rifle season just wrapped up here. Next year I’m considering taking the cdory to hunt black powder in a very remote and largely inaccessible place in the hopes of avoiding fellow hunters and the crazy behavior I saw this year. Covid really brought out the intensity! 2020 marches on... thank god for tourists and fast moving cars. Salvage tags: does harvesting meat get any more ethical? Good luck all you in states with later seasons and healthier herds!
 
WeekiTiki":2ky4g2cu said:
Haven't shot a deer in years

Processors always have meat that was never picked up

So just pay the butcher
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Thats a good way to do it if you like good lean wild game meat. I dont believe it is legal in Washington state unless it comes from one of the tribal shops.
 
Wow I just called my butcher and she said that in washington the butcher is not allowed to sell the meat that is not picked up. It is turned over to the wdfw and they will charge the owner of the meat with waste of an animal. That is a pretty big fine and loss of hunting rights for a few years.

We can however pick up roadkill. There is even a few facebook pages to report fresh road kill so others can go get it. very popular page.

California years ago, and other states I am sure, use to take all the road kill to the prisons or county jails. It was processed and feed to the convicts. Lawsuit put a stop to it. law suit was backed by the butchers association.
 
Yeah I wasnt joking! we pull deer off the highway a couple times a year and split it with a few neighbors. After you claim it you can get a tag from the WDFW website and print it at home; keep it with the meat. I havent used a butcher for a deer, just do the best I can to get all the useable meat. I would rather eat recently hit roadkill deer than most commercially processed animals, and people laugh until they try it and find out how good a taco can be! Or they dont try it and keep on laughing... thats ok too, just keep taking those blind corners at top speed for those of us in the know.
 
Ya know why people in Arkansas (or insert your favorite state here) circle roadkill with chalk on the way into town, don't you?

So they know what's fresh on the way back home. :D
 
Nancy and Bud":2x1z1g2z said:
Ya know why people in Arkansas (or insert your favorite state here) circle roadkill with chalk on the way into town, don't you?

So they know what's fresh on the way back home. :D
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Hahaha! Whenever i see my neighbors in town we roll down the window and accuse them of cruising for deer. You gotta laugh about it, life is absurd anyway! I dont have time for your ridicule though i have to go burn some trash: it’s date night. :lol:
 
this time of year I am duck and goose hunting. trying to cook up a lot of it fresh this year as opposed to grinding into teriyaki sticks or sausage. The snow goose last night was great . Last week I panko deep fried teal breast. Just wonderful.
 
We're lucky here on the west coast. Where else can you hunt three species of regular deer, whitetail, mule and blacktail, in the same state? Elk are abundant too. Yeah, I do understand that biologists claim blacktail and mulies are the same genetically, but they couldn't be more different ecologically, and for strategy to hunt them. I hunted whitetails the first half of my life, and was happy with that, but WA is a truly fantastic place for hunting, when WDFW actually lets you. I won't go there further in this email.
 
Rob,

You are lucky indeed.

When I lived in Colorado we hunted Muley's on the Western Slope.

Lived in S.Illinois for 51 years and have hunted white tails since 74.

Life is good.
 
Nancy and Bud":9mg2djil said:
Rob,

You are lucky indeed.

When I lived in Colorado we hunted Muley's on the Western Slope.

Lived in S.Illinois for 51 years and have hunted white tails since 74.

Life is good.
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Pre 74 Colorado Muley hunting! Don’t rub it in any further please. Certain I could learn a thing or two from both of you. If only I could find those abundant elk...not that Sequim town herd or that Colockum unicorn hunt either. I’ll pack meat as far as either of you wants to shoot it from a trail or road. Sign me up: Sherpa cbrat, always looking to learn to be a better hunter from better hunters.
 
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