From Road to Skillet

[Ninurta]

A lot of states have that law but I never heard of the "app" to claim it. Not a bad idea. 

Where I live, I just take 'em. If a deer gets hit by a car and flops over on my property, that is a gift from God. The Sheriff does not need to be bothered with it. 

My cousin in Colorado has some insane laws. You have to call the Fish and Wildlife to come out and "assess" the situation. They will contact the local animal control agent to come handle the dead deer or whatever. Cost is $1600+. If they find you have mice on your property, they will charge you a few hundred more to "take care of" your mice problem. She lives in the woods up in the mountains. Of course there are going to be mice. Where aren't there mice?

That's insane. They charge YOU 1600 bucks to haul away something they should be letting you put in your freezer? And forced mice removal? I had a mouse just this morning outside playing on my deck! Little bastards are everywhere! Ain't no wonder my nephew hauled ass out of Colorado and moved to Alaska!

A few years ago, when my son was just a baby, we lived in a fairly rural area of NC near a rich folks' housing development. One night, I heard a horrific crash and looked out the window just in time to see a pickup truck careening away. I went out to see what had happened, and sure enough there was a deer accompanied by several truck parts beside the road. The deer was still alive but immobile, so I went back inside and got my rifle to put it out of it's misery, but then thought better of it - they might have arrested me for "hunting out of season". Fish and Game are a bunch of tight asses like that. So I called the sheriff's department to report it, and they sent a State Trooper out to finish it off. By the time he got there, however, it had already expired. So he asked me if I wanted it, and I said hell yeah, so he wrote me out a permission slip to have an out of season deer in my freezer.

More recently, in the fall of 2016 I think, I was living in Buchanan County VA. Bow season was in, and some dumbass shot a doe with a crossbow on the hillside above my house, but she got away. The bolt severed her spine, so she had to drag herself through my yard using just her front legs. The asswipe that shot her either didn't follow up, or was afraid to come into my yard after her, knowing he wasn't supposed to be hunting my place anyhow. So she made it to the ditch, and created a commotion with the cars going up and down the road. same thing - I wasn't going to shoot her and get accused of rifle hunting in bow season, so one of the guys there called the sheriff's department, who sent a deputy out, and the deputy shot her with his service sidearm. He also asked if anyone wanted her, and one of the guys piped up and said he did, so me and the deputy helped him load her up into his truck bed, no permission slips required. I couldn't eat her anyhow - that same doe woke me up every morning grazing in my yard. She was almost a pet.

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