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If you see a deer run across the road, come as close to a stop as you can because there's almost always several. --70.44.xxx.xx

The country road near our old house was nicknamed Road Kill Alley. --50.82.xxx.xxx

I have families of them in my yard. The young ones come back and rest here. Had a doe and a buck resting near my front fence. I hope they were not "putting on a show" out there. They move a few feet if I need to go near where they are but they just look at me. When I put the bird seed and deer corn out they start coming up to me. I think a couple of mine were hit last spring on the road a block down. It's four lanes. That explains it. One of the females is the size of a small horse and I think one buck must be her son because he is bigger than she is. --71.104.xx.xxx

I had something similar happen a few years ago on the interstate in Iowa doing 65-70 mph. I saw this huge buck coming up from the right hand side of the road so I slowed down. It ran right in front of us and a semi truck in the left lane doing at least 70 mph hit the buck and wiped out his radiator leaking antifreeze and transmission fluid everywhere. It was a close call for us in a mini-van, however, it pays to be vigilant while driving rather than texting, etc. --99.165.xx.xxx

Got my stand up last week, spending Thanksgiving up NH at the cabin. I hope to tag a buck before the weekend is over. I had my game camera where the tree stand is set up and saw a monster and some nice smaller ones, hopefully they are still using that trail when I go up to hunt and aren’t off chasing does somewhere else. --73.17.xxx.xxx

Tough to find a day better than one spent in a deer stand jkj. --70.44.xxx.xx

Not deer related, but I was driving down the interstate one day and came around a curve and there was a large crate in the middle lane. I kept watch in my mirror and ended up seeing a car plow right into it. It didn't appear that it hurt anyone. I had already heard about the crate on my CB right before I got there so I was looking for it and able to avoid it. --73.120.xx.xxx

6x6, CB is a great idea. My dad had one and had a great time talking to people around the area and truckers. --71.104.xx.xxx

NE, agreed, nothing more relaxing than sitting silently, watching and listening to the woods come alive when the inhabitants don’t know you’re there. --173.48.xxx.xxx

Tonight a 6pt buck was standing in my lane I braked from 50 yards and flashed my lights n turned on flashers. He stood still for what seemed like minutes but finally turned back from the way he came. Not the way I want to fill my tag! --72.10.xxx.xxx

Small Potatoes, you touched on my concern. If you hit a deer with your truck, does that fill your tag? That would deprive the driver of his opportunity to be in a stand for the rest of the season. --98.182.xxx.xxx

No mike, it doesn't fill your tag. --70.44.xxx.xx

Hitting a moose is even worse. It will come through your windshield. And they are in full rut. Dusk is the most dangerous time. We have watch for moose on roads. Even the highway. --70.16.xxx.xxx

MIKE45,at least here in NY if you hit a deer with your vehicle they will give you a special tag and you can keep the deer for meat and keep your hunting tag to get another deer --72.231.xxx.xxx

We got chased by a moose down a logging road in Maine, years ago. We were in a pickup truck but he didn't care. Came at us full speed, we were going as fast as we could away from him! --50.82.xxx.xxx

Every state has laws regarding roadkills, I know in MA and NH if you hit a deer, report it to the authorities, and ARE a resident of that state you can claim the animal after you have been giving a special roadkill tag (which is needed to have possession of the animal). It doesn’t affect your hunting tags. In ME It’s the same, only I don’t believe you need to be a resident of the state. In AK the driver is not allowed to keep the animal, all roadkills belong to the state and they have charities that are called that will retrieve and butcher the animal then give it to soup kitchens or needy families. I have hit 2 deer and 1 bear, each time I was at Highway speeds (55mph plus) the meat was not worth harvesting. For the most part the only time the animal is worth taking is when it’s hit at lower speeds breaking its legs and law enforcement or a game warden shoots it, even then in most cases the quadrant that made contact, and sometimes depending on the vehicle and speeds, the entire half of that animal is bloodshot and not salvageable. I have a friend that is a local animal control officer, once in a while he will call me if he had to shoot a deer that got hit to see if I’m around and want it rather than have the Highway Dept. take it away. He’s called me maybe 5 times when I’ve been able to head over, only once was the animal worth cutting up, and both times I was only able to salvage about half of the typical meat I get off a deer, the rest was bloodshot. --173.48.xxx.xxx

I drove away and then looked on my phone and it said you were required to call the police in Florida in this situation. So tried to drive back to where it happened but I couldn't remember the intersection where it happened, and it was night, so I finally gave up. I doubt the police here would have done anything had I reported it. --72.188.xxx.xxx

J, I think the only thing they might have done is call animal control to scrape it up off the pavement. --174.242.xxx.xxx

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J, I hear ya. --174.242.xxx.xxx