Legality of dispatching injured deer

[Tater]

You don’t need a police report in SC for a deer collision.

[Simple Man]

Black Bart's gone?

[Tater]

Quit trying to stir up shit, ya damn rabble rouser.

[Simple Man]

I've kilt a deer in a person's front yard with a pistol without asking. And left it laying there cause I was headed to work and didn't have a gambrel at the office.

We cool now?

[Tater]

Yes.

[Simple Man]

Whew.

[2thDoc]

close call

[everlast]

If you're in the city limits, it's most likely illegal to discharge a firearm (at least in most cities)... but you'd have to get caught.

If you want a police report to file with an insurance claim, you'd best call the City or County law enforcement. Technically, they are the ones authorized to shoot an injured animal, but since it requires them to file a report for discharging their firearm, they'd most likely tell you to go ahead. The same with DNR.

As you can see on this thread, nobody here cares about the legalities. Personally, if I was able to process the venison at home, I'll do the deed and not look back. If I needed a police report for insurance, I'd wait until the officer arrived and then ask him/her if they wanted to do it or if they'd rather I did. If it was going to take more than a few minutes for them to arrive, I'd request permission to shoot it before they got there to put the animal out of its misery.

If I recall, the last time I was in a similar position, I called DNR to make sure there was no issue of me taking the deer myself (out of season). I was told to dispatch it, if needed, and since I had a hunting license it was fine for me to take the carcass. I didn't need a police report since someone else hit the deer and it was their problem.

https://www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/deer/faqsdeer.html (See #2 on this link... also quoted below)

Thank you for this, Woodie.

[WoodieSC]

You don’t need a police report in SC for a deer collision.

That's good to know. 'Knock on wood', I've never had need for such a report... although my wife almost hit a cow once on Midway Rd.

[Tater]

You need a police report for a cow. And a picture of an ear tag and the cow because NO ONE is going to claim it. In fact, you’d be better off to tell your insurance company you hit a deer. A really big deer.

[M.R.Ducks]

I was leaving work a few years back on 2nd shift. As I pulled out I saw a good friend pulled over with 2 other cars. I pulled in as I watched said friend take a yeller handle across the deers neck. About that time a woman screamed a peeled out in her car. Turns out a Mexican had hit a young buckling and broken 3 of his legs. The woman in the car was saying she was gonna call animal control but my buddy wasn’t having any of it. This was also right after midnight from 2nd shift. After the woman left the Mexicans that had hit the deer loaded it up and off they went. There wasn’t any saving that deer. If you have a responsible way to not let the animal suffer then by all means dispatch it quickly.

I miss my buddy though. He was killed a year later in a car accident at 27.

[Hoggin]

The neck is the wrong place. Insert blade in the armpit and give it some windshield wiper action. All over in seconds.

[Hoggin]

Gotta go balls deep though. No fucking around

[Islandguy85]

The neck is the wrong place. Insert blade in the armpit and give it some windshield wiper action. All over in seconds.

Agreed. Can feel the heart beat and theres where ya go.


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[Bigtimber2]

22oz claw hammer. Works on lots too I hear.


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[PharmHunter]

Hilarious.

I tried to help one out of the road one time, unsure of the severity of her injuries at first. An older gentleman had clipped her, but she ended up having some head trauma and wasn't going to make it. He was kind of upset. The mistake I made was not just shooting her in the road to start with. She kicked me right in the ankle. Left quite a mark. I limped to the car, grabbed the pistol, shot her and left the old man standing there with her to go ice my darn ankle.

[BigBrother]

The neck is the wrong place. Insert blade in the armpit and give it some windshield wiper action. All over in seconds.

Gotta go balls deep though. No fucking around

These are separately and together some real life good fucking advice.

[PBiz]

22oz claw hammer. Works on lots too I hear.


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Probably got that tid bit at the "One Buck Every Ten Years Bow Hunters Gassociation"

[TheVisorGuy]

22oz claw hammer. Works on lots too I hear.


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Who's gonna swing it for you? You ain't that big

[thunderchicken]

Hilarious.

I tried to help one out of the road one time, unsure of the severity of her injuries at first. An older gentleman had clipped her, but she ended up having some head trauma and wasn't going to make it. He was kind of upset. The mistake I made was not just shooting her in the road to start with. She kicked me right in the ankle. Left quite a mark. I limped to the car, grabbed the pistol, shot her and left the old man standing there with her to go ice my darn ankle.

Pretty sure that was one of my prize does.