Would You Mount It?

[Mauserguy]

I just came back from a deer hunt. I saw lots of does, but no bucks while hunting. On the way home, though, I nearly hit one on the road. I was thinking, "Gee, if I hit that guy, why not tag it and take it home?" Would anybody here considering mounting a buck's horns if you had hit it on the road?
Mauserguy

 

['Card]

Take it home and eat it? Sure. Take it home and have it mounted? Ummm... no.

One exception: If the buck had a really nice rack I might nail it up on the wall inside my garage or something, if only so I could point to it and say "Yeah, took those off that big b*&^%$ that tore the *&^%$ out of my Plymouth."

 

[countertop]

eeer, no.

Generally, at least around here, if you hit it you have to turn it over to the state (as in, no hunting from the road).

I believe they will use them - if they get to them soon enough - to feed the homeless through hunters for the hungry and other such groups.

 

[Grouse Hunter]

no i would take it home eat it and keep the antlers but not mount it.

 

[Cork]

Mounting a road kill?

No way would I use my tag or mount a road kill. A mount is for a memory I want to remember not having an accident. Most of us feel terrible damaging the vehicle and killing the deer on the road. A friend hit a deer and his spouse mounted a deer tail on a board and gave it to him as a gift, he took the joke well enough. Here in Mississippi road kills go to waste, which is a shame. Last week I drove from Indiana to Mississippi and saw too many dead deer along the roads.
Cork

 

[IThunter]

I personally would but I have seen it done...a fella I know hit one on the way to church claimed it, butcherd it, and I think the rack in his garage.

 

[swampdog]

No, but I didn't mount the 8 pointer I got a couple of years ago, either. I would take it home and eat it, though.

 

[dfaugh]

Nah...If it wasn't aquired by a "clean kill" I wouldn't....

Well actually I might hang on to it...For what purpose I don't know...

 

[sixgunner455]

I'd probably use the rack for knife handles and other projects. I've taken antlers off road kills just for that purpose. Sheds get used, too.

I've eaten road killed deer. I know other people who have lived on just that in bad times. Hope I never hit times that hard again, but I won't turn my nose up at a recent kill. Just don't eat the mush from the actual hit, and it's the same as any other deer.