To tag or not to tag?
03-09-2007, 05:13 PM
#61
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
ORIGINAL: germain
If you did the skull surgery would you tag it?
If you did the skull surgery would you tag it?
03-09-2007, 08:20 PM
#63
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
ORIGINAL: Hung_Bear
If I made a bad shot and couldn't find it after about 2hrs. I wouldn't waiste any more time on it.... If I found it the next day by accidentand it was a big buck. I would most likely take my bow and license home and come back with a sawzall and do some skull surgery.But I am sure not gutting it open while it is bloated.
ORIGINAL: germain
Two different subjects here.A diseased deer compared to a "bad hit" found after spoil.Question for ya huggy bear,if you made a bad hit and found your buck with bad meat would you tag it and keep the rack or walk away?
Two different subjects here.A diseased deer compared to a "bad hit" found after spoil.Question for ya huggy bear,if you made a bad hit and found your buck with bad meat would you tag it and keep the rack or walk away?
03-10-2007, 09:36 AM
#65
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
If I found a rotting deer with anice rack I would cut the antlers off and take them home. Why not? The meat is of no value but the antlers do have value and leaving them to be chewed away by rodents is a waste. They could be used to make a nice display, knife handles, rattling horns or just a conversation piece. Now whether I was the one who delivered the shot that eventually killed the deer or if someone else did, it wouldn't make any difference to me as far as tagging it. I won't be putting my tag on a rotted deer and as far as I'm concerned it would take an idiot of a game warden with a Barney Fife mentalityto give me a ticket for it. I think I would fight a ticket like that all the way to a jury trial just to be a pain in the you know what. I wouldn't care if it cost me thousands just to drag the warden to court and publicly show him to be the idiot he is.
03-10-2007, 12:04 PM
#66
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
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.
03-10-2007, 12:49 PM
#67
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
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.
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.
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.
03-10-2007, 01:45 PM
#68
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
Sheds are legal to keep as of about two years ago.Removing the antlers from a dead deer and keeping them is absolutely,positively considered illegal possession of wildlife parts.Unless the WCO blows the investigation and arrest,you will be convicted and no judge could rule otherwise.It doesn't matter if you,I or the judge feels it's a stupid law.The law is what it is and it's illegal to take the rack from a deer unless it's legally tagged.
It's a clearly written law and I'm afraid the only one that would look stupid is the one trying to fight it.
It's a clearly written law and I'm afraid the only one that would look stupid is the one trying to fight it.
03-10-2007, 02:27 PM
#69
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
ORIGINAL: DougE
Sheds are legal to keep as of about two years ago.Removing the antlers from a dead deer and keeping them is absolutely,positively considered illegal possession of wildlife parts.Unless the WCO blows the investigation and arrest,you will be convicted and no judge could rule otherwise.It doesn't matter if you,I or the judge feels it's a stupid law.The law is what it is and it's illegal to take the rack from a deer unless it's legally tagged.
It's a clearly written law and I'm afraid the only one that would look stupid is the one trying to fight it.
Sheds are legal to keep as of about two years ago.Removing the antlers from a dead deer and keeping them is absolutely,positively considered illegal possession of wildlife parts.Unless the WCO blows the investigation and arrest,you will be convicted and no judge could rule otherwise.It doesn't matter if you,I or the judge feels it's a stupid law.The law is what it is and it's illegal to take the rack from a deer unless it's legally tagged.
It's a clearly written law and I'm afraid the only one that would look stupid is the one trying to fight it.
03-10-2007, 05:46 PM
#70
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RE: To tag or not to tag?
It's a clearly written law and I'm afraid the only one that would look stupid is the one trying to fight it.
I have a pile of antlers in the garage and though they were all legally killedand taggedover many years.I doubt though I have a single tag for any of them. Especially the older ones. Tags were thrown away years ago. So I guess I'm a real serious poacher to some then right? Possesing antlers without out a tag oh my!