Thread: Carcass etiquette

If on private property I always check with the owner as to what he would like.....Nothing gets your permission to be on there revoked quicker than if you leave carcasses/gutbags where his missus and kids see/smell them......

Public land... As others have suggested above..

Interesting anecdote re disposal of carcasses.
Did a legal permitted swan cull on a large property quite a few years back....the owner wanted the carcasses dumped in his offal pit.
The first day we shot just over 300 swan in the first 3 hours, then spent the rest of the day breasting them out and loading them on my trailer to cart them to his offal pit which filled it up. The following weekend we shot 499 on the saturday before 12 and spent the rest of the day and all the following day to process and dump them. Ended up borrowing his bulldozer to dig a trench to bury them. The property had been closed to hunters up until then...but the farmer was so impressed that he gave us permission to hunt the property during the game bird season.

Gave some of the meat to the local IWI, turned most of it into salami's and gave it to various rest homes and locals. Also gave some of the carcasses to the IWI who ran a traditional cloak making course using swan feathers. After plucking them, they then used some of the carcasses as eel bait in their eel traps with good success. It was a win/win situation for all concerned.