Muzzleloader season starts this weekend for Kentucky deer hunters. While this organic meat offers food for families, the inedible parts are often left where they shouldn’t be. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Captain Garry Clark says deer dumping is always a problem this time of year.
“It’s hard to catch anybody dumping them because they usually do it with a cover of darkness. When we are not around or nobody sees them when they dump them out and there is no way of tracing them down unless they have a tag on them, which we don’t require them to have a tag.” Clark said.
Dumping a deer carcass along the side of a roadway, near a boat ramp, in a creek or on a wildlife management area is considered criminal littering and you can be cited for it.
“Usually when someone dumps one in a remote area somebody else comes by and say, hey i'm gonna throw mine out right there and you know and they will get a few of them piled up there in the creek.” Clark said.
Clark says hunters should bury the deer on-site with permission of the landowners or contact the local dump. The deer should not be left where people can see or smell them.A criminal littering citation carries a mandatory court appearance. Muzzleloader seasons begins December 12th and ends the 20th.
