M ROBSON Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I believe if a vet puts a wounded Deer out of it's misery at the side of the road via lethal injection, then he/she is duty bound to remove the carcase. You couldn't have poisoned bait lying around for all those protected birds of prey to scavenge on. Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kip270 Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I believe, and so do many others, that the statement in '1.' is incorrect. The idea is to stop people deliberatly killing wildlife with their cars. stuartp, nice pix you are as mad as a hatter Gents please don’t miss the point , as long as it was not hit by me I can pick it, It would seem none of you guys do likewise, at ££££ per Kg I find it hard to leave good fresh meat on the blacktop, that if 500(?) yards away from the road just felled on would be deemed a sporting kill with Rifle an eaten all the same Not where Deer are concerned i'm afraid, even if you have not hit it with your car it is still the property of the landowner/ subject to any legal agreement where the rights have been passed to another e.g. in a sporting lease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I have just looked this up on the police national legal database and offences of taking deer only apply to private land and people entering that land and removing deer. It states that a wild animals are not property unless already captured and if they are not property then they can not be stolen. I think that as long as you were on a public road and you did not hit it you would be ok. If the deer were property of an estate or landowner and were tagged or marked so that you can see that someone owned them then you should not take them. Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted January 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I have just looked this up on the police national legal database and offences of taking deer only apply to private land and people entering that land and removing deer.It states that a wild animals are not property unless already captured and if they are not property then they can not be stolen. I think that as long as you were on a public road and you did not hit it you would be ok. If the deer were property of an estate or landowner and were tagged or marked so that you can see that someone owned them then you should not take them. Harry Well done Harry, I rest my case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Harry, I think that fits with my interpretation. If you capture it, it's yours (unless poaching is involved), but if you abandon your right to it by leaving it, it then belongs to the landowner. i.e. if you kill it you can't steal it, but someone can steal it from you if you assert your ownership of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Go for it! I cannot see the plod turning up and going through all the hassle of arresting you because you picked up something you had just killed. Interesting thought on the deer, however I heard that a deer has to be gutted within an hour of death due to a gland in the body releasing it's contents and tainting the meat. Any truth in this? I heard this story AFTER a little episode last year..................... I was on my way to work at 5:30 one Saturday morning when I saw a dead deer on the side of the road. I stopped, chucked it in the back of the car and took it to work where I was going to gut it and chop it up into Sunday joint type bits. However upon opening it, it was clear that the insides were a TOTAL mess and were no good for anything so that was that. Problem was what to do with the carcass! I put it in a wooden box and chucked it into the skip. After doing this I had visions of the box getting stuck in the crusher lorry that empties the skip. (Happened before, not the best of sounds!) The thought of dead deer being splatted around the yard was not a good one so with the help of the fork lift I had to lift it back out, put it in the back of a collegues car (Bigger than mine!) and drive to the woods and deposit the carcass deep in the brush away from the track! It all got a bit "Fawltey Towers" for a while there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Interesting thought on the deer, however I heard that a deer has to be gutted within an hour of death due to a gland in the body releasing it's contents and tainting the meat. Any truth in this? Depends on the temperature Snake, if it is hot you can see them blowing up as you approach them, in the cold they last a bit longer. But 1/2 to and hour is normally the maximum. I think it is more to do with the fact that their stomach contents are like compost (they have 2 stomachs like cows) And yes the meat won't be much good if they are left. Completely off topic, if you ask for 'Venison' in a restraunt do you think they have any idea what type of deer it came from, and at what time of year? I have heard that meat from a rutting Stag is the fowlest thing you will ever taste as it is full of testosterone but then some venison is delicious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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