tatonka

In Montana the tag is required to stay with the meat, not the antlers..... Technically, you are supposed to have the tag with the meat in your freezer, although I don't know of anyone who has ever been checked. I do keep my tags in the freezer where the meat is.

Beware when it comes to antlers on ebay....... I just read a discussion in another forum about a set of antlers on ebay where the score had been grossly overstated. The guy who made the post had seen the antlers before they were listed on ebay. The listing on ebay stated they would score 199", although they only scored in the 160's. When I looked the bid was already up to $3500...I don't know what the final price was. These were shed antlers. How anyone could pay that much for a pair of shed horns is beyond my comprehension...

KCbuckeye22

Every antler I find is a trophy to me. If I go out in the woods and find antler I consider it successful. Right?

125py

unfortunatley with those type of cowards, nothing

shedman6o

There is a web site called antler tom .com and this guys sells consigned antlers from all over and he gets out ragious money. Who keeps tags from animals they kill .i dont my home is to cluttered as it is.

fastetti

Thanks guys, just wondering about everyones opinions. I understand that a lot of people use antlers for crafts and things like that. I find nothing wrong with that at all. I enjoy seeing the knives, coat racks, chairs and such made of antlers at outdoors shows. The thing that concerns me is when I see a rack still attached to a skull plate that is on Ebay. Just the other day I saw one person selling 9 racks all attached to skull plates still. It just seemed kind of fishy to me. I understand people supplementing there income with sheds and maybe selling off a rack here and there and I find nothing wrong with it, we all run into tough times, but when I see many racks on ebay and no where does it say where there from it seems a little "iffy" to me.

I guess ever buck (and doe for that matter) has a story. The antlers of all my bucks tell a story and I couldn't sell them unless I was in serious financial trouble.

Shed antlers are a different story. People spend days hunting for them and deserve to do what they want with them. I see no problem in selling them at all. I personally have around 20 or so. One day Im hoping to make a chandalier (sp?) for my future hunting cabin (fingers crossed!).

Again, I was just curious on everyones opinion. Maybe Im thinking of too many negative thoughts when I see these racks still attached to skull caps. I just hear of too many stories with poached deer (and seen too many) with just there antlers cut off, I just hate to see people benefiting financially from poaching in this fashion. Sorry if I offended anyone, didn't mean too.

JNTURK

I don't think there is "great" money to be had by killing bucks and selling them on ebay, the profit margain wouldn't be in the sellers best interest...just speaking realistically..

However sometimes it can lead to stupid people doing stupid things!!!

http://www.californiagameandfish.com...01r/index.html

teedub31

Not sure what you can do in Indiana. Selling meat is illegal, so I figure the same goes for antlers too, but not sure.

NC Buck Slayer

haha. It definitely don't help you spell better.