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Hi - I have had both and enjoyed both. If you hang your game, you have to ensure you keep it somewhere reasonably cool, to stop flies laying eggs on/in it (same goes for hanging salamis and hams), like a cellar or cool garage.

I think with road kill, beacuse you can't determine its origin it may be wiser to eat fresher, but I'm sure plenty of people would disagree.

I didn't hang this last bird, as you've probably read, but it really tasted lovely. And as you so rightly say, no buckshot!! (I've risked teeth on many a bunny before now)

Miranda

We had a roadkill hare a couple of years ago. It was delicious.

I was looking at the message from CHEEZY about her law student friend stating that it was illegal to utilize badger roadkill. This isn't quite correct.

Under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 it is an offence to possess a dead badger or any part of a badger." But badgers accidentally killed on the road do not come under the provisions of the act by reason of the following clause: "A person is not guilty of an offence ... if he shows that ... the badger had not been killed, or had been killed otherwise than in contravention of the provisions of this act or of the Badgers Act 1973." This makes it quite clear that it is not against the law to remove a dead badger from the highway or the verge to dispose of the body, and if that disposal involves casseroling and eating it, the act is no impediment to such an action.

The full act can be viewed here
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1992/uk ... 1#pb1-l1g1