Last year I got a call from a gal that she had a buck that had been around her house that had been limping really badly, she doesn't really care for hunting but didn't like seeing him suffer. I had already tagged out but I knew a kid that had not so we went over there. I talked to her for a minute, and we agreed she should go grocery shopping. The kid took the deer, and she still thanks me every time she sees me for how I handled the situation.
The buck had a bone sticking out of the skin of leg, but the bone and skin had heeled that way, he was completely crippled on that leg.
WDFW needs to have some type of provision for this type of thing to be managed out of season!
On the plus side I think that we will win her over to a management understanding of deer harvest.
-I do find it ironic that the liberals hate trophy hunting, but in reality the laws they end up pushing lean toward the trophy hunter.
-I believe that in over populated areas there should be provision for subsistence tags, I believe that an animal dead on the road should be fair game even without a tag.
-When i was a kid we were POOR, and we knew a sheriff that would call us when there was a fresh road kill. It was in Oregon and we ate quite a few elk that way. Much of the animal is ruined, but there is usable meat if it is bled out quickly, and handled soon. I have often thought that there ought to to be a food bank type deal that LEOs could call that would get right on deer and elk kills, then distribute.
