This afternoon, I was trying to take a buck off the Perdidio River Management Area near Pensacola. It is the last rifle quota season and I've got the permit. I found where someone had killed a buck, probably the day before. It literally made me sick to find it.
Whoever took that animal wasted almost all of it. The only meat that was taken was part of the backstraps and the better meat off the hind quarters. They didn't even bother to take the meat off the lower hind legs, they didn't skin it up the back more than about half way, they never skinned the front legs, didn't take any rib, flank or neck meat. But, they did cut off the head and haul it away. It looked like it was a pretty good buck. I'm quessing that it probably weighed around 140 lbs and I seriously doubt if they took over 30 lbs of meat off the carcass. The flies and birds had already found the carcass and I couldn't salvage it and had to walk away. Made me so sick that I left the field for the rest of the day!
I was raised in Colorado and out that way, they take waste of game meat very,very seriously. You are required by law to salvage all edible portions and that includes all of both back legs, all of both front legs, all rib meat, all flank meat, and all neck meat. You can leave the edible organs (Heart, Liver etc...) if you don't want them, but I never have. I bring it all out.
This is the 3rd or 4th time I've found deer butchered in the field like this in this state. I've hunted all over the country and have never found any elsewhere, just here in Florida. My father taught me that wild game is a precious gift and that very edible bite should be brought out to do honor to the animal. I believe that anyone failing to do such has committed a crime against nature by wasting this precious gift of flesh. It shows a complete lack of respect for the game, the hunters, and the sport. Why go to the bother of hunting the animal if you're just going to throw it away? It's totally BULLSHIT!!!!
Ok. Now I'm stepping off my soapbox. Just had to vent a little. :cowboy
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This afternoon, I was trying to take a buck off the Perdidio River Management Area near Pensacola. It is the last rifle quota season and I've got the permit. I found where someone had killed a buck, probably the day before. It literally made me sick to find it.
Whoever took that animal wasted almost all of it. The only meat that was taken was part of the backstraps and the better meat off the hind quarters. They didn't even bother to take the meat off the lower hind legs, they didn't skin it up the back more than about half way, they never skinned the front legs, didn't take any rib, flank or neck meat. But, they did cut off the head and haul it away. It looked like it was a pretty good buck. I'm quessing that it probably weighed around 140 lbs and I seriously doubt if they took over 30 lbs of meat off the carcass. The flies and birds had already found the carcass and I couldn't salvage it and had to walk away. Made me so sick that I left the field for the rest of the day!
I was raised in Colorado and out that way, they take waste of game meat very,very seriously. You are required by law to salvage all edible portions and that includes all of both back legs, all of both front legs, all rib meat, all flank meat, and all neck meat. You can leave the edible organs (Heart, Liver etc...) if you don't want them, but I never have. I bring it all out.
This is the 3rd or 4th time I've found deer butchered in the field like this in this state. I've hunted all over the country and have never found any elsewhere, just here in Florida. My father taught me that wild game is a precious gift and that very edible bite should be brought out to do honor to the animal. I believe that anyone failing to do such has committed a crime against nature by wasting this precious gift of flesh. It shows a complete lack of respect for the game, the hunters, and the sport. Why go to the bother of hunting the animal if you're just going to throw it away? It's totally BULLSHIT!!!!
Ok. Now I'm stepping off my soapbox. Just had to vent a little. :cowboy
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poached.
Wasteful. Buzzards starve after I am done deboning. I go and trim off meat my partners deer when he cleans them. I hate waste. Period
What they did was against the law. Report it to a game warden or the check station when you see that kind of stuff. They should know who walked out with a head and no meat. If not it may have been poached or maybe some one lost the deer after shooting it and found it a day later. I've done that before and only took the head because the coyotes and buzzards were already eating it.
:hang em high
