One question: Why didn't your neighbor eat the deer he shot?
Too bad state laws are contra common sense and wastefull!
FELONY in WA state to eat it or even skin it.
You can kill a deer doing damage, but supposed to call game dept to come get it, otherwise a felony.
About 20 years ago had a deer die in our yard due to car hit. Deer population 20 years ago still manageable.
Called game dept to come get it.
game dept (GD): "WE got no budget for that"
Me: "Can I skin it and jerk it?"
GD: "That is a FELONY, officially classified as poaching, you can get X years at WallaWalla"
ME: "so what can I do with it"
GD: "call you local animal control for pickup"
County animal control (AC): "We can only pick it up if in the street"
So I drug it into the street ! They did pick it up. This being a do-gooder liberal area, had a few irate neighbors pound on the door demanding to know what killed poor Bambi!
Fast forward another few years, another road kill deer. Many more deer now.
AC: "don't have sufficient budget for deer pickup anymore"
ME: "GD says I cannot do anything with it, not even bury it"
AC: " the bury part is no longer enforced, too many deer nowadays, go ahead and bury it - but you can get charged with a FELONY if you skin it, you must bury the whole deer, antlers and all"