Some People give the rest of us a bad name

[jeffreyd]

From the omaha news,

Police say a woman driving to work saw two men cleaning a deer carcass at a coin-operated car wash in Lincoln.

Nineteen-year-old Mikayla Tubbs was driving past the car wash around 10:45 a.m. on Saturday when she spotted two men and a pickup with a dead deer in the back. She says "they were actually skinning the deer or something."

A police officer later found evidence on the floor of the car wash and near a drain. The men, truck and deer were gone.

Steven Beal is assistant health director with the city of Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department. He says the men violated a health code and, had they been caught, would have faced a fine of $150.

[reinhard1]

you know the old phrase"you just cant make this stuff up", applies to this. proper dressing of the deer of course stays in the point of harvest. i did one time when i was still proccessing deer had one customer call and tell me he had a car kill for me to do. i knew the customer, but i told him i do not do road kills. well he told me he had hit the deer only on his head when the accident occured and since i knew the customer i told him to bring him in. road kiil deer are often bruised and i just dont proccess them for the reason of to much waste. well he brought it to me and it was the cleanest deer i have ever done. reason- he washed the interior of the deer after gutting it properly with a garden hose. i know it's not the same as a car wash but it was clean. the story brought this memory back to me. good luck.

[wannafish2]

i actually think that washing with water would provide a perfect environment for bacteria to grow. i don't think rinsing your abdominal cavity with water is recommended.

[jeffreyd]

I have never expect to remove any foreign matter if i nicked a gut or intestine. and then it is with only small amount of water. to me it is like putting a beef steak in the sink, it is going to draw the color and flavor out of the meat.

[96trigger]

We wash out all our deer with a garden hose to remove any excess blood, we always hold the deer up and it wash out the rib cage and it runs down through the H-bone cut. We have never had any problem with the deer after it has been washed out. Between the with the size of the rib cage and the H-bone, the only meet that ever comes in conctact with the water is where the hind quarters are split to get to the H-bone. We have never had a problem with taste or wasted meet.

[Deep]

At deer camp with no running water we us a small weed sprayer to give a quick rinse off of the cavity. Works good for washing your hair too.

A weed sprayer that hasn't had any chemicals put it, although my hair could use some type of fertilizer.

[reinhard1]

after skinning the deer and trimming off most of the fat and unusable meat frome the deer i wipe the exterior of the deer with a clean wet towel to remove any hair left on the meat before i portion cut it for the table for the final cutting proccess. i dont think there is anything wrong with rinsing out the body cavity as mentioned above as long as the deer is hanging. good luck.

[mrklean]

Ok so did they just wash out the deer or did they gut it there to? Its pretty dumb for them to wash it out like that in public

[reinhard1]

i dont think it was determined if one or the other or both were done there. eighter way it was dumb to bring a deer to a car wash. good luck.

[Bear55]

There are complete idiots in all walks of life, I sometimes wonder if we as hunters get too apologetic and hard on ourselves for the actions of others.

[Musky Buck]

It's to bad the press seems to go so negative and those stories really stand out where the quality stories seem to lose there luster in a hurry, for many they love these bad stories as it makes your own life look a bit better, the pendulum has swung, we used to embrace the good and spit on the bad and now we love to hear of turmoil as long as we're not part of it, or so it seems anyway, either way these people are a sliver away from the word moron's.

[bikeoutback]

Not sure about how other's feel about this but driving down 35 last week I saw a deer strapped to the top of a small sedan. When I took hunter's safety a few years ago they asked that those in the class be mindful of others and not do this at all. Place deer in trucks or wrap them in tarps so they are not visible in transit. As proud as one may be of that harvest many others just don't feel the same way about seeing a dead animal strapped to a vehicle. How do other's feel about this?

I'm a hunter but if it draws less negative attention by simply not displaying my kill then that's what I think I'd rather do to keep the sport of hunting alive.

[Bear55]

We kind of went over the car thing a few weeks back, check around there was a big discussion about it.

[Triple_D]

Reminds me of a funny story of my own.

Me and a buddy were pheasant hunting out by Montevideo and my Golden Retriever decided to roll in a dead fox he found in the field. Boy did he stink. I noticed one of those Do It Yourself car washes when we drove through town so I stopped and sprayed the dog off. Some lady was looking at me like I was nuts, but it was definitely worth the dollar in quarters I had to spend.

[Jackpine Rob]

A few years back I was antelope hunting in SoDak, and it got fairly warm during Opening Day. I raced to get my antelope skinned and deboned and in the coolers.

As a steady parade of trucks came back to the campground, and I wandered about looking at all of the hanging carcasses, it struck me how CLEAN all of the goats looked. Out of curiosity, I asked a guy how they managed to get their antelopes so clean.

"The car wash" was his reply. "We all do it!"

First I had heard of it, and thought it a pretty slick idea.

[elkhuntingfan]

I usually strap my deer on top of my Pinto wagon and hit the drive thru car washes. If there isn't much hair, I hit the touchless car wash. Otherwise those car washes with the bristles work great.

[Coach1310]

As Ron White says...

"You can't fix stupid."

Was it a slick idea to get the deer cleaned up... conveniently and such, sure... but in the grand scheme of a world where there are others, probably not the best decision.....

How about owning a Car Wash and making it a Deer Wash for a couple weeks per year ?????

[Todd Caswell]

Although I have never thought of taking a deer to the car wash to rince them out, I have done this at home with the garden hose and have been much more happy with the results than with a deer that was hanging at deer camp for three days with dried blood in the interior.

I grew up hunting around Northhome (flowing well) when we shot a deer we would gut them and then lay them head down steam in the creek for a day water was really cold and cleaned them out really well. Hang them up and they would drip clean. Better than a garden hose...................

[Todd Caswell]

As Ron White says...

"You can't fix stupid."

Was it a slick idea to get the deer cleaned up... conveniently and such, sure... but in the grand scheme of a world where there are others, probably not the best decision.....

How about owning a Car Wash and making it a Deer Wash for a couple weeks per year ?????

Tired of cattering to OTHERS If they don't like it don't look, we as hunters have been giving in to the huggers, skin and gut in the street if you need to....

And no I'm not a true RED NECK