RTA deer : tell me I did the right thing !

[Jeff8861]

You have a moral duty and welfare duty. Unnecessary suffering of animal is an offence. If an arv isnt available take the animal into the undergrowth and dispatch it.

 

[Jeff8861]

Well that’s a grey area because you can’t discharge firearm on the side of the road unless you’ve got written permission to do so, therefore without a copper being there to cover your arse so speak you’re breaking the law! That’s how I see it anyway.

I would never turn up unless I knew there was going to be a police officer present because

1- they can then find the bloody thing
2- then you know where to stop and do what you have to do

I’ve driven too many bloody miles up and down the road in the early hours of the morning looking for a RTA Deer that’s crawled its way onto the other side of the hedge where you can’t dispatch it because you have no permission to do so not even animal welfare covers you for that!

Its not illegal to discharge a firearm within 50 feet of a road. It ian offence if it interupts or injures a member of the public. In law the definition of a road covers almost everywhere.

 

[VSS]

Its not illegal to discharge a firearm within 50 feet of a road. It ian offence if it interupts or injures a member of the public. In law the definition of a road covers almost everywhere.

Within 50ft of the centre of the highway is the correct wording, I think
As you say, no offence unless it impacts other road users (I forget the exact wording for that bit).

 

[12gsnapcaps]

I wouldn't risk it if I was ever in that situation. I have helped farmers dispatch wounded/sick livestock on private land on a case by case basis but I'm not discharging any firearm in public on public land. I'm sorry but that's just the world the politicians/police have created now. I would inform the police of the situation and ask them to dispatch an ARV.