Eating RTA deer

[Freeforester]

More folk have been put off eating venison which has begun its journey to their tastebuds by being roadkill than almost anything else save rutting stag, but here’s your chance to discover this for yourself. Simply take an identical cut from each animal and prep them as you would normally, then find this out for yourself. ‘Bon appetit’

 

[HonestJohn]

Having opened up deer i’ve run over, I can say with confidence they’re not going anywhere near my table. And I can also say I really hope never to get hit by a moving vehicle!!

 

[Stalker62]

And I can also say I really hope never to get hit by a moving vehicle!!

Fun fact.

I once had patient who had been hit by a moving vehicle.

Usual trauma, but what was interesting for me (it was my first time) was seeing all the 'black' in the tissues on the patient's X-Ray.

This 'black' was air that had literally been forced into the soft tissues, by the impact.

If you gently palpated those soft tissues, you could hear the air 'squeek".

This air eventually dissipates on its own, but is quite uncomfortable whilst it lasts.

 

[Ratel]

People rabbit on about adrenaline in the meat due to road accidents or stress in deer. IMHO a load of rubbish having eaten venison hunted by staghounds and then issued via the butcher to farmers in the area. Also Fallow that have been in an RTA and I have finished off. In answer to the original question, if I was hungry.I would eat it and so would my sons as kids.

 

[Rake Aboot]

I’ve eaten loads of roadkill including many deer.
If it smells ok , I eat it.

People are over cautious in my opinion , brought on by going to too many courses.

 

[foxhunter]

Are you really that desperate

 

[finnbear270]

I don't need a course to swerve the unknown, neither do I have access to a crystal ball.

 

[Hayduke]

If I was really really hungry/desperate/hard up.
Blown guts & a bag of chisels!

 

[StephenToast]

Last night, on the way home from the fish and chip shop with a large haddock and chips I spotted someone's macdonalds leftovers in the gutter, when I looked inside there was a half eaten burger and half a portiin of chips, they were still warm and hardly had any gravel on them. I brought it home. I'm just wondering if any of the forum members think it's okay to have as a starter before my haddock and chips?

 

[VSS]

Last night, on the way home from the fish and chip shop with a large haddock and chips I spotted someone's macdonalds leftovers in the gutter, when I looked inside there was a half eaten burger and half a portiin of chips, they were still warm and hardly had any gravel on them. I brought it home. I'm just wondering if any of the forum members think it's okay to have as a starter before my haddock and chips?

You'd be mad to eat anything from McDonalds, whether fresh or not. Much safer to stick to road kill deer.

 

[RJD]

Can’t beleive no one has asked whether the vehicle that hit it was running lead free.. surely that’s the real issue?

 

[Ben23]

Phwoar what an epic of a post - glad it’s got so many opinions going. Thanks all. Still undecided. Think the comparison about McDonalds is a bit trivial (although funny). Will butcher up the shot roe now and think about the RTA some more.

 

[SussexSteve]

You'd be mad to eat anything from McDonalds, whether fresh or not. Much safer to stick to road kill deer.

Id second that. Ate it once it went through me quicker than a porsche!

 

[SussexSteve]

Why would you eat roadkill surely you would be better off eating one you shot yourself ??

 

[AGR]

A keeper friend of mine used to butcher the roadkills he got called out to, never heard of any problems, he did it for years.
More locally, I'm told the neighbourhood smells of delicious curry when a certain Indian gentleman gets some roadkill.
I've eaten in the past and survived.

 

[Ben23]

Why would you eat roadkill surely you would be better off eating one you shot yourself ??

I hear about it all the time on podcasts, primarily US conservationists previously vegan who turned hunters, via the gateway of eating roadkill. Mainly on the Into The Wilderness podcast with Byron Pace. Made it sound normal!

And the freezer is pretty barren at the moment, aside from the roe doe kid from Sat. I’m not desperate though, hence the ability to make a drawn out considered choice based on many factors and opinions (thanks in part to this wonderful board).

 

[Bo Diddley]

Last night, on the way home from the fish and chip shop with a large haddock and chips I spotted someone's macdonalds leftovers in the gutter, when I looked inside there was a half eaten burger and half a portiin of chips, they were still warm and hardly had any gravel on them. I brought it home. I'm just wondering if any of the forum members think it's okay to have as a starter before my haddock and chips?

Go for it Stephen . I carp fished with my young nephew for a season on a syndicate lake before he got to old and discovered the ladies, Friday & Saturday nights often got very messy, many times he would leave his half eaten pizza takeaway in the box outside his bivvy, the rats would be crawling around the bankside at night and he ate the leftover pizza more often than not as soon as he woke up in the mornings, he's a 6'3" tall roofer now and as strong as an oxen.

Ps, I've eaten plenty of roadkill in my time, but when you have a freezer full of venison I think I may pass on such a beast.. maybe dog food if I was short.

 

[bogtrotter]

I'm not the best shot in the world but not so bad that I have ever had to eat road kill.

 

[VSS]

I'm not the best shot in the world but not so bad that I have ever had to eat road kill.

It's not a case of having to eat it, it just seems such a shame for it to go to waste.

 

[Jon P]