Dumping deer carcass?

[z7x]

Without dumping the carcass on my hunting property, what is the legal thing to do with it? Is there somewhere I can take them? Legally

 

[TNReb]

Check your town's laws/regulations. Sometimes you can simply put them in bags and put them out with your trash (or take them to the dump).

 

[csi-tech]

The short answer is no. The collection centers, at least here, will not allow any animal carcass. If you process your own, You are pretty much stuck with it. There are private companies that pick up dead livestock and carcasses from professional processors. You might ask at CoOp or look one of those up. The truth is that the deer die naturally in the woods. Unless you just have very little land, leaving one to the coyotes in a deep hollar is perfectly fine.

 

[Stykbow]

The best way to deal with a deer carcass is to let Mother Nature clean it up for you. From my experience, there isn't much left after less than 24 hours.

Agreed.


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[Hunter 257W]

I throw mine out right behind the house when processing them and it's hard to find any evidence there ever was a deer there the next day.

 

[MackPC]

I have one designated one spot of my property that has a deep ditch on it for dumping. Its an area that doesn't get any deer traffic and wont hurt their normal movement patterns. Varmints will take care of the disguarded carcass quickly.

 

[diamond hunter]

sinkhole here

 

[z7x]

So what if someone doesn't have private land to hunt Only hunts public land. Where can he dump

 

[treefarmer]

When I hunted public land and processed my own deer, I'd take it to any out of the way brush line and scatter the bones there. Later I learned like the others and just put the bones in the tree line at the back of my house on 1 acre in Brentwood. We live in a subdivision but the critters still come in a day or two and get what is put out. I have even put the bones in the garden in our back yard and they are gone in a day or two. I have buried two dogs in our garden so that is an option too, it's just more work. I leave the pelt in the woods so I'm not sure if that would disappear quickly - it does in the woods.

 

[hillbillyfab]

I'm fortunate to have a little piece of ground that I can dispose of carcasses from me and my friends that don't. I like getting them to be honest, to see what other critters that come to scavenge. :stir:

 

[Mid-Tenn]

When I lived in an apartment or in town I disjointed the carcass into smaller pieces and placed the remains in three or four trashbags and disposed of them in dumpsters or at the local convenience site

 

[Tennessee280]

Got a buddy that puts em in bags and drop em off at dumpsters at rest stops on interstate on the way home from the farm!!

 

[KPH]

I have some low life dumping half processed deer carcass at the entranced to my lease most every year during bow season. I bet I know where the deer comes from and I know what I would like to do if I catch them.

 

[catman529]

In the woods


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[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

In the woods


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x2

 

[Planking]

Take deer to processor is another option.

 

[csi-tech]

sinkhole here

Sinkholes generally lead right to the ground water. The only thing that will consume a carcass there is bacteria. I'd avoid that in favor of just leaving it in the woods.

 

[csi-tech]

I have some low life dumping half processed deer carcass at the entranced to my lease most every year during bow season. I bet I know where the deer comes from and I know what I would like to do if I catch them.

The Primos Easycam is ideal for taking pictures of license plates. If you lose it you are out 25.00.

 

[csi-tech]

I have some low life dumping half processed deer carcass at the entranced to my lease most every year during bow season. I bet I know where the deer comes from and I know what I would like to do if I catch them.

This isn't a bad idea. As far as I know, we pay taxes and these are our dumpsters. You wouldn't want to drop them in private dumpsters like at an apartment complex or business though.

 

[MidTennFisher]

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If I recall it's illegal to discard a carcass in the woods. As ridiculous as that is, my understanding is that you're not allowed to kill a deer on a public WMA, take it home to process, then bring it back and throw the carcass in the woods to complete the cycle of life. Is that not correct?

 

[catman529]

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If I recall it's illegal to discard a carcass in the woods. As ridiculous as that is, my understanding is that you're not allowed to kill a deer on a public WMA, take it home to process, then bring it back and throw the carcass in the woods to complete the cycle of life. Is that not correct?

maybe not on the wma but in my backyard it's fine


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[catman529]

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If I recall it's illegal to discard a carcass in the woods. As ridiculous as that is, my understanding is that you're not allowed to kill a deer on a public WMA, take it home to process, then bring it back and throw the carcass in the woods to complete the cycle of life. Is that not correct?

You can discard of a carcass on private property. I don't believe you can intentionally dump a carcass on a WMA, but the question of what defines a carcass and what is wanton waste is up for interpretation of the area manager. For example, I have routinely skinned and quartered deer on public land, leaving the spine, hide, gut pile and the lower portions of the legs in the woods. Some area managers might consider that wanton waste. Others may not. Either way, there's nothing left 24 hours later. "Wanton waste" implies and intentional degree of wastefulness like removing the backstraps and leaving the rest, (but, again, that is up for debate.) However, no such laws apply on private land. As I understand, Legally, you could kill a deer on your property and leave it as it lays.

I'm pretty sure wanton waste applies only to waterfowl or migratory birds


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[scn]

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If I recall it's illegal to discard a carcass in the woods. As ridiculous as that is, my understanding is that you're not allowed to kill a deer on a public WMA, take it home to process, then bring it back and throw the carcass in the woods to complete the cycle of life. Is that not correct?

You can discard of a carcass on private property. I don't believe you can intentionally dump a carcass on a WMA, but the question of what defines a carcass and what is wanton waste is up for interpretation of the area manager. For example, I have routinely skinned and quartered deer on public land, leaving the spine, hide, gut pile and the lower portions of the legs in the woods. Some area managers might consider that wanton waste. Others may not. Either way, there's nothing left 24 hours later. "Wanton waste" implies and intentional degree of wastefulness like removing the backstraps and leaving the rest, (but, again, that is up for debate.) However, no such laws apply on private land. As I understand, Legally, you could kill a deer on your property and leave it as it lays.

TN does not have a wanton waste law for anything besides migratory birds.

However, they do have a WMA regulation that makes it illegal to leave (or dump) a carcass on the WMA. The enforcement of that regulation has always allowed normal field dressing.

Boning out an animal and leaving all parts with the exception of the meat could be subject to interpretation.IMO, it is almost the same as leaving/dumping a carcass. I would advise checking with the Area Manager of the WMA prior to doing that to make sure they are OK with such a procedure.

 

[AT Hiker]

Why would the WMA not want a legally killed deer carcass (bones, skin,etc) left at cite of kill? I understand dumping one in a camp ground or parking area is absurd but leaving it where it died just seems natural, especially in a designated wild area such as a WMA.

I ask this because it seems normal for WMA managers to proceed that way. I had one in Nebraska, on a federal refuge, tell me that the only thing I could leave were the intestines. Even though you can walk almost 10miles in before you reach the next road. They except you to drag a deer carcass 5 miles out, stupid.


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[scn]

I don't leave the bones, I quarter the deer out and leave the hide, the gut pile and usually the spine.

You also said you left the leg bones in addition to the spine. When you add the hide to it, IMO, it becomes pretty close to a carcass. I doubt that many Area managers would have a problem with it, but it might be worth a phone call ahead of time.

 

[scn]

Why would the WMA not want a legally killed deer carcass (bones, skin,etc) left at cite of kill? I understand dumping one in a camp ground or parking area is absurd but leaving it where it died just seems natural, especially in a designated wild area such as a WMA.

I ask this because it seems normal for WMA managers to proceed that way. I had one in Nebraska, on a federal refuge, tell me that the only thing I could leave were the intestines. Even though you can walk almost 10miles in before you reach the next road. They except you to drag a deer carcass 5 miles out, stupid.


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The regulation was added due to a WMA that had some organized coon hunts. At the conclusions of the hunt, the coon carcasses were dumped/left at the checking station where the WMA staff had to deal with them.

 

[landman]

I too have a problem with the illegal dumping
at my farm, I have a TC up but with long frontage
they dump at different spots.

I wish I knew who they where, love to dump
some in their yard