01-02-2020, 09:59 PM
Those DWR agents can be quite generous. 13 years ago when I first became stationed here in Utah my house commander and I were out riding the back roads checking out the nature scene. We had driven about 1 mile towards Monte after the Causey turn-off when I noticed a deer laying in the ditch. I backed up rolled the window down and she just looked at me. I explained to the wife that something is definitely not right with that deer; maybe it had been hit by a car. So, I decided to press on with our journey letting my wife know if we see a state patrol or game warden that we would try to flag them down and let them know what we had witnessed. What are the chances? Not two miles up the road I noticed a green truck with numerous antennas protruding out the roof. I rolled my window down and "low and behold" a game warden. I explained the situation, drove back to the locale and the deer was still laying in the ditch, head up and eyes wide open. So the game warden walks down to the deer and she jumped up but her hind leg from the knee joint was nearly ripped off. Appeared to have maybe been caught in a fence. The game warden then proceeded to dispatch the animal. I then asked so what do you do with them? Thinking probably donate to a shelter etc. He said, "do you want it?" Sure, but I do not have a knife with me to field dress it. He said, "no problem I have one in the truck" and he field dressed it for me. He filled out a slip, and we tossed it in the back of my truck. That night I hung it in a tree in my back yard and the next day cut it up and froze it as I was watching the Packers beat up on another team. The second part of this story was several individuals who worked for me went deer hunting that week and shot nothing. That was my welcome to Utah. I realize this has nothing to do with fishing but read the whole donation incident and decided to chime in.
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