What To Do?

[AlwaysAfield]

Just for future reference. Last year I was coming home from my parents house
(who live in Cucamonga) taking the 210 E to the 15 N and passed up a dead buck on the side of the freeway. I stopped and examined it and figured it had to have been dead for a few hours. My question is "What would I have had to do to take the rack and pelt home?" More specific is "What are the regulations in Ca for taking road kill so as not to break any laws?" The buck was a nice 3x3 with the velvet still on (Possibly 3 year old). I would have taken it home except for the fact that my loving wife was complaining about me messing with dead animals, the kids were screaming in the back seat, and I happened to be driving my little Corolla instead of my fullsize Blazer. Any help from anyone is greatly appreciated. RIDICULOUS I know but true. Sounds like a story my in-laws from Kentucky would say.

LOL

 

[Mr.Redneck]

Not sure about CA laws, but if you see one along the road in OH, it is fair game, I wacked of four sets of horns last year and was about one truck too late for a really nice 10 pointer that would've made a great rattling set. I wouldn't be too eager to take a hide off of one though, may be a little too stinky for that. I don't mind caping out a fresh kill, but not going to that much work for a road kill. By the way, I almost always use a folding branch saw to zip horns off, seems to work as well as anything, plus it goes with me hunting.

 

[tdhunter]

In Texas it is illegal to posess any part of a deer that was killed by a motor vehicle.
What a waste! TD

 

[fossilman]

I just cut the head off or haul the whole deer home and do my work there.

 

[lxtrail]

my brother cousin and I found a nice 3 pt that had been been hit on the 101 north of paso robles, they were going to just take it but i had them call DFG to make sure it was ok. they said more or less hell no, unless you hit the deer yourself, then you can take the carcass after a DFG offical (gamewarden) comes to the scene and i guess does a investigation. but if you just drag it off the road into the bushes and come back a few week later and get the skull there wouldnt be a problem i dont think. i have two skulls 1 doe and 1 buck that were road kills that i just moved them about 50 yards from the rest of the body and plan on getting them after more of the fur is removed by the critters. soemtime this summer. there was a bobcat killed the other day which i am going to see if its still there tommarow and i am going to get the skull for that