I passed this pheasant plucker on the 2017 Yr Elenydd 300km. He was quite happy with himself having bagged a pheasant in the first 100km which he carried all the way around with it's head hanging out of his saddlebag. At the final control in Brampton he came in and told us he had picked up another so had a brace of pheasant to show for the day out. I asked him if he had bothered with the badger (which you smelt about a mile before you saw its bloated decomposing body) but he said he had left it there. We had spoke earlier in the day and he told us on one audax he came across a small dead deer which he put safe and got his dad to collect for him.
Surprised by the deer; you need to Gralloch them pretty quickly after they cease to be; otherwise they turn rancid; which apparently is one of the reasons poachers are easily traced by gamekeepers who catch thme in the act.
I've a history of the things landing on my car bonnet, so am rather jittery when they are caught in my bike lights; the mess the one that decided to try and rut my grille with a 40mph speed differential thankfully only took out the bonnet, bumper, air con condenser as it was the middle of nowhere and dark.
The one that hopped over a fence onto the nose of the bonnet was a different matter; both lights, air con condenser (thankfully protecting the radiator), bonnet, indicator units and the crush bar... and I'd not long bought the car.
Both cost less to rebuild than replacing a bike would.
not a DIY, but I was out last friday night, and startled 6 of them before I left Fife; didn't see any for the other 60km round the Tay.
Even more surprisingly for a Friday evening, I didn't see any wildlife in either Dundee or Perth either, must have just missed pub closing time.