Hey folks,
With the seasons starting to ramp up I wanted to throw a little advice/recommendation out there for anyone lucky enough to be successful this year. I went to check some cameras this past weekend and parked at the gate. While I was changing out of work clothes and putting on play clothes I could smell something awful. Thinking it was my dirty clothes or boots at first I realized it was an outside source. I found a tarp, tied tight with baling twine. Cut it open and unfurled enough to see maggots and deer hide. Didn't open it up any further as I was in a hurry but herein lies the rub.
There are two possible scenarios:
1. Seeing as how archery hunters seem to not shy away from work and don't strike me as lazy I can't imagine that anyone would work so hard for a deer only to leave the carcass on the side of a paved road, in a tarp where it can't be broken down in the usual ways. But if this was the case, then we all need to remember that the work isn't over once the meat is in the freezer, leaving a stinky gore bag on the side of the road where others have to see and smell the mess isn't helping our cause. I'm pissed, I can only imagine what a non-hunter would think and have to say. So folks, roll it off a dirt road, put it in a dumpster, or bury it in your yard. The point is, if you wouldn't want to see it in your lawn, don't leave it where everyone else has to see it.
2. If it wasn't shot legally by a bow hunter the only other option I can think of is that it was poached and dumped, or dumped by a tribe member (i.e not poached-ish). Either way its bad form.
Not trying to ruffle feathers, just letting people know that this is an example of what not to do.
Have some respect.
