ORIGINAL: DougE
You may not like it but in Pa that would be illegal possession of wildlife parts and you'd get prosecuted with no chance of winning.Once again,I'm not debating the ethics or the law,just stating that it's illegal to remove and possess the antlers from a deer you didn't legally harvest and tag.Some youngsters were just prosecuted and found guilty of that very thing around here.
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always a chance to win a case in court. But win or loose it would show the idiocy of some tin horn, no common sense fool who would ticket for such a trivial thing. I can just imagine how much fun a lawyer would havewith the warden. He'd make him look like a jerk in no time and I'd bet any jury ever assembled would refuse to convict for such nonsense. That is if the judge didn't simply dismiss the case and repremand the wardenand prosecutor long before that happened. I've got to believe common sense would win in the end.
BTW somebody tell me if it really is illegal to cut the antlers off from a deer you find dead in the woods. Whatmorons could produce a law like that?What about if you find a shed? What fool is going to tell me that thisit's wrong to take it home? So what if you find a patch of deer hair caught on a barbed wire fence and you want to take it home to make fishing flies. I suppose these idiots would want to ticket you for that too huh? Well assuming you didn't tag the hair of course.