My second Utah Buck

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-09 AT 09:26AM (MST)[p]Well, I got out early on Saturday morning. I didn't evev have to hike to get this deer. He basically just stood there and let me hit him. Don't ask for the honey hole.....well, ok, I'll give it to ya...but I better not be seeing anyone else trying to encroach on my sweet spot. I took this sweet buck at I-80 east bound right before the Jeremy Ranch Exit.......ok, now that I told ya....no squatters on my area! Here is a pic.

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I was driving down I-80 when I saw this deer lying dead, on the side of the road. I noticed it was a buck and you could see his antlers. I thought it was too bad, he's a decent buck. well as I got closer he jumped up and just using his front legs kinda ran/slid into my vehicle. I thought it was crazy especially since I had originally thought the buck was dead. Anyway, he still wasn't dead when I got out to check on him....I didn't have a gun so I called highway patrol and they came out. The trooper pulled out his shotgun with a slug in it and finished it off....right there on the side of the freeway. How many times do you get to see that? So, I asked the trooper to take a picture with my and the deer. Obviously he complied. He's a dandy buck, typical 4x4 with 2" eye guards and a 1 1/2" cheater on the left side. The trooper was quick to inform me that the DWR would have to be notified immediately and that they wouldn't let me keep the head. As I drove by the deer later in the day, I had noticed that they had already cut off the head. Anyway, it was a very interesting morning!
 
Looks like that blue camo worked well for you ! Did you use cover up scent ?
That's to bad to road kill a nice buck like that .
 
I did see that once at the mouth of Big Cottonwood years ago. To bad thats a nice buck.
 
Did they just let the meat rot away or did someone get to eat it?

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Well, from what I've heard the body is still there....somebody (I had originally thought DWR but now have my doubts) cut of the head and the body was all that was left.
 
Sounds kinda strange they would leave the body behind, DWR would take the whole thing! Sounds to me someone cut the head off and took it home! Big trouble if you ask me i hope whoever took it gets caught. You should of waited for the DWR to get there. They may have let you keep it if you paid to have it processed, i knew a guy who hit one once and they let him keep it.....thats the story he told me.
 
"I hope who ever took it gets caught"??????

I hope who ever took it saved the cape and is getting it mounted. Or, is going to euro it. Any thing but let it get sold by the DWR later next year.

"I hope who ever took it gets caught"?????? that has to be the qoute of the day.
 
Found out that a park ranger from Rockport reservoir got called and he and his boss came and cut of the head for the DWR. Kinda odd I thought.
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-23-09 AT 04:22PM (MST)[p]>Found out that a park ranger
>from Rockport reservoir got called
>and he and his boss
>came and cut of the
>head for the DWR. Kinda
>odd I thought.

That is typical - they try and find the nearest available officer who isn't already busy. My boss had to respond to a couple of calls like this when I worked for the FS and my brother had to do it when he was a depredation specialist. At that point it is their judgement to take the whole body or not and it depends really on their schedule for the day.


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