Originally Posted by
UncleNorby
Shed antlers differ just a little bit in comparison to antlers from a poached buck. Most notably, poached antlers generally have a skull attached. Either that, or they are cut from the skull with a saw.
I have found a few dead bucks during hunting season. I have taken a couple sets of antlers to use for rattling. It may not have been legal in my state, whatever. I can take a CO right to the carcass if anyone ever asks.
Won't matter if you don't have a tag unless the law is changed and should be. "Who's to say if you didn't kill the deer for the rack" is what you'll most likely here and then there will be a charge and a court date and and and... In the end the state will have done nothing more than been at work for a day and you will have had a painful learning experience.
Not getting down on you, just explaining reason has little to do with it.
All because somebody might poach. That is so unamerican. Prove your innocent when it is prove me guilty. Because the law reads you cannot have any part without a tag they are covered in their "your guilty". Cheap shot on hunters IMO.