Bumper Hunting: The Man Who Eats Road Kill

Was this the guy from Washington St. ?
There is a guy from Saskatchewan who does something similar, he hunts for road kill and takes the hide, salvages what he can
after skinning them of course.
He even offers them for sale too and was doing a pretty booming business last winter .
There is an abundance of food in this land and some of does not come from a supermarket.
Rob
 
The owner of a company I worked for showed up one day holding a dead pheasant by the feet and offered it to me. HE hit it nearby with his vehicle.
He knew I was a hunter. Thankfully there was a kitchenette in the place. I ran for the back door to start plucking when the bird started struggling.
"Hey, it's still alive!", I yelled. "Ya, I know", the boss hollers back.
 
I've eaten what I've killed. And in winter, what I have found in reasonable condition within a couple of hours of having driven the same road.
 
Couple years ago we got skunked on opening day. We packed up at the farm and got just around the corner when we found a lady that had just hit a doe. We stopped and made sure her car was OK to drive. Lent her a cell to call home and let them know she was gonna be late. There was an awkward pause and I looked at her and said "sooooo you gonna eat that?" We loaded it up and took her back to the farm and hung it. It was a good kill too, busted rib went through the heart and didn't waste more than 5lbs of meat altogether.
 
Dad tells me the old trick was to try to run right over the ruffed grouse that would be on the road pecking gravel. That is, try to get them dead center between the wheels. You either went right over top of them or destroyed their head with the bumper lol.
 
BigV said:
Couple years ago we got skunked on opening day. We packed up at the farm and got just around the corner when we found a lady that had just hit a doe. We stopped and made sure her car was OK to drive. Lent her a cell to call home and let them know she was gonna be late. There was an awkward pause and I looked at her and said "sooooo you gonna eat that?" We loaded it up and took her back to the farm and hung it. It was a good kill too, busted rib went through the heart and didn't waste more than 5lbs of meat altogether.
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I'm not so proud that I won't take road kill home. I have eaten many a deer/turkey/grouse that met its demise on the road. It's meat and if it is still good I'm taking it home to the freezer.

In January the wife did $4000 worth of improvements to her Nissan hitting a buck. Wrecked the car. I came out with the rifle and put the poor buck with broken legs down. Loaded him into the truck took him home and he is now in my freezer.
 
I've hit and had grouse partridge pheasant and duck a la route, no problems with it as long as you know it's fresh or not been to hot out.
 
Wow! This guy has larger kohonees than I do. (I have been tempted by freshly struck venison before, but didn't have time to mess with the paperwork since I had a freshly shot whitetail sitting in the truck bed). I'd have to be VERY hungry before I'd roast badger ##### or consider 1 month already dead roadkill- but I'm a bit prissy...
 
WolfyW said:
The owner of a company I worked for showed up one day holding a dead pheasant by the feet and offered it to me. HE hit it nearby with his vehicle.
He knew I was a hunter. Thankfully there was a kitchenette in the place. I ran for the back door to start plucking when the bird started struggling.
"Hey, it's still alive!", I yelled. "Ya, I know", the boss hollers back.
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Haha. Thats awesome.
 
yesterday i was going into town and saw a suv pulled over with some front end damage. on the way home at the same spot their was a blue tocoma pulled ove rarding the deer out the ditch and into the back of his truck.
 
Just one guy from Saskatchewan??? Laugh2

FLHTCUI said:
Was this the guy from Washington St. ?
There is a guy from Saskatchewan who does something similar, he hunts for road kill and takes the hide, salvages what he can
after skinning them of course.
He even offers them for sale too and was doing a pretty booming business last winter .
There is an abundance of food in this land and some of does not come from a supermarket.
Rob
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WolfyW said:
The owner of a company I worked for showed up one day holding a dead pheasant by the feet and offered it to me. HE hit it nearby with his vehicle.
He knew I was a hunter. Thankfully there was a kitchenette in the place. I ran for the back door to start plucking when the bird started struggling.
"Hey, it's still alive!", I yelled. "Ya, I know", the boss hollers back.
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That there is just funny!
 
Hit a rabbit on my way home. Nailed him right on the head, body was untouched. Reversed, threw him the trunk and took him home. Never skinned anything in my life but i watched some entertaining youtube videos and gave it a try. Worked pretty good but the fiancee didnt want nothing to do with preparing and cooking him. I was a bit leery as i dont really know anything about wild animals and whether the rabbits in our area are good (just north of Toronto).

Ended up taking the skinned rabbit to my buddies who has three cats on raw meat diet. Said they really enjoyed it.
 
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