In Pennsylvania it is legal to take a deer off the road. Call the Pennsylvania Game Commission - PGC and keep the meat. They want the head and the antlers.
If you want the antlers, you have to pay them $10 a point and even more than that if it is a trophy buck.
Funny thing is - most people's posts said something about picking up a buck. Not a doe. Most of the deer picked up in PA are the bucks. People tend to leave the doe's laying on the side of the road.
One of my neighbors hit a large doe - aprox. 165 lbs field dressed along the main highway the last day of rifle season and nobody picked it up. I went down the next morning - it was 18* outside and field dressed it. Paid a friend of mine to help load it and hang it in my tree. Offered him half the deer - after paying him - just for helping. He declined saying that he had a bad experience once with a road killed deer. Basically what he was saying was that he wasn't willing to do the work of butchering the meat and he wasn't willing to pay someone else to do it for him.
Meanwhile his refridgerator at home was empty and his pockets were the same. I gave away the hind quarters to my aunt - she wanted a couple of roasts and I gave the rest of the meat away to a needy family. I legally tagged the deer and sent in my report card to the PGC.
Nobody died as a result of eating this meat.
When I was making sausage - guess who showed up at my house. Yep, the person that didn't want the meat. I gave him what was left over inside the grinder when I cleaned it out.
