Illegal Disposal Of Deer Carcasses

Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. It’s not a local phenomena.

I am surrounded by public hunting ground and national forrest. I see that and worse every year.

Not just local at all. At the end of the season I take one of my dogs out (the youngest) and we go find poached deer. Most of the time they are just dumped remains that I will use to bait coyotes, but sometimes they are the whole damn deer with the horns missing. This happens before season too (more often then), but it’s just not cold enough to go get a deer someone tossed out on “the back roads” a few hours ago when there is less than a few feet of snow.

Poaching may annoy me, but legal or not, people that dump the whole damn deer really piss me off. They could at least donate the meat to the poor for f’s sake.

I don’t have a ton to add to this, because of course I don’t condone poaching and it sounds like maybe that’s the majority of what you’re seeing here…

But I also think education is called for here, to let hunters know that it’s not OK to dump the carcass in the waterways. My money says if you went out and asked 100 hunters in the area, 98 of them wouldn’t have a clue that there’s anything wrong with dumping in the creeks, rivers, or lakes. It’s “natural” isn’t it?

I speak from experience. For most of my life, along the Cape Fear River, we dumped the gut buckets and hides of our deer off the pier into the river. We always figured the gators, crabs, catfish, and (a couple miles downriver)the sharks would take care of the offal and leave very little for anyone else to deal with. I only recently found out that this activity is illegal in North Carolina.

While I still think that if you’ve got a really active scavenger fish population and really big water, like the Cape Fear, there shouldn’t be an issue… but it’s not really about what I think, is it?

Regardless, I can definitely see where it would be a big issue in the northern lakes and streams where there’s very little to eat the offal, and most of what goes into the water comes back out on its way downstream…

To some degree isn’t this or shouldn’t this be a case of out of sight, out of mind? It’s not completely hazardous waste and put out in the right places like Jack Ryan does, it becomes food for scavengers. Wasting entire deer, as Jack says, pisses me off too.
When people see deer and game animals disposed of this way, it just gives us all a bad image.
Right, wrong or indifferent, I was always taught that if it didn’t come from the water, it shouldn’t go in the water but if it is food that will be consumed, no foul?

I work for a northeastern state and all whole deer dont die from agunshot some dont look both ways befor they cross the road when we go to pick the one that is laying ona lawn by the road we take them to the woods for the coyotes and think that it might help save a small buck to live for a hunt later

I was hiking thru the back part of my property, and came upon a deer that had it’s entire head missing and it’s pinus looked missing also…!!!! What kind of sick pup would do such a thing. And to leave the poor animal like this makes me sick.. Is this like some kind of ritual or something? Makes us feel uneasy to even enjoy the forest.

Me to, I see this here as well, I have cleaned a lot of it up. Yet I wonder about it, didnt used to notice it so much before, I saw this type of stuff a lot on the Wind River Indian Reservation, and our Blackfoot Reservation here as well, and I think illegal immigrants are doing it here, they just strip the meat and dump the rest. Seen this by Yuma before on the river by the border. Most folks I know use the hyde, even a white hunter knows he can freeze the hyde and gey $50 for it via a taxidermy shop in need of skins. Thats what I do, if I dont use it myself, I let some one else get a use out of it, it only takes a few extra minutes to skin out the animal correctly and use that hide for any number of items. I think folks might be suprised to learn our southern wet back invaders are doing a lot of this wasteful poaching, they are the low man on the totem pole, and steak is not cheap.