It's so easy to get a little cut/wound infection

[Mortblanc]

Here in KY no one has to witness our kill and it does not go against our bag limit.

A couple of years ago I was pulling out of my lane and the guy that lives in the corner house was standing on the roadside looking at a deer laying dead in his yard. I rolled the window down and shouted that the deer was not there when I came home at 10pm, and it had been below 40 degrees all night. No way the meat could have gone bad. I helped him drag the carcass to his garage for processing.

Often you lose one whole side of a road kill deer but can still recover the good side if for nothing but ground meat.

As a re-enactor I also use the hide and bones of deer, and road kills have been a good source for the materials needed for projects beyond my ability to supply during the hunting season.

Same for wild turkey. I used to keep my son supplied with wing bones for turkey calls and feathers for fletching with road killed turkey. The only bad part was when you stopped to pick up a fresh turkey and it turned out to be a vulture!

You do have to be careful though, last year a woman hit a big doe with her Yaris and the game warden wrote her a citation for killing deer with a sub caliber vehicle!