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[acidix]

I have had in a couple of my forts, a hunter, using an axe, who kills a creature, said creature flies a bunch of squares, and my hunter wont return the kill. 

My butcher wont go out to get it, my dwarves won't dump it even if I mark it for dumping, and it doesn't end up in a refuse pile or anything.

Is there any way to get my merry gazelle and deer chucking dwarf to grab his kills?  Fun as it is to have a hunter wantonly murder animals for no reason, I'd like the leather, bones, and meat.

[Soadreqm]

Have you ordered your dwarves to gather refuse from outside? They should be able to at least bring the carcass to a refuse pile or dump it, even if the hunter himself refuses to touch the thing.

[Derakon]

Get the hunter to kill with a crossbow, a spear, or with his bare hands. The problem is that when the dwarf sends the animal flying, he can't reach the animal any more, so he picks a new target to hunt. If you use weapons that don't tend to make enemies go flying, then this won't happen.

[Village_Idiot]

Derakon is right, you can keep the hunter with the hammer though, but you will have to set all outside CORPSES to be brought to the refuse pile. Your haulers will however also attempt to move every goblin/orc/elf your soldiers to the refuse pile, which can hinder them from picking up that burning pig tail sock. And that wouldn't be very fun now would it?

[Coilgunner]

I noticed that hunters have extremely short attention spans.  What I mean is that they will go out and kill an animal, and then while carrying it back drop it when they see another animal and run off to kill it without returning.

But it doesn't sound like that's your problem.

[Leafsnail]

Yep, I realised I had the outside corpses off too.  Although waiting for a turtle to rot is a good way of getting shells in a fortress with hundreds of luxurious meals.

[Jikor]

I know I'm resurrecting an old thread and all but has anyone had this problem on df 2010? My hunter just kills deer after deer and leaves them to rot out in the field. I tried the above and they just don't bring them back in still.

[Quietust]

You do have a butcher's shop built, right?

[Jikor]

Yes.
I have auto butcher set. A racoon came in and was chomped by one of my dogs and he was promptly taken over and made into skulls and dinner.