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Sneaky Squirrel:
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--- Quote from: Mtnwalker on April 12, 2024, 08:30:39 AM ---Don't need to implement a license, just ban the sale of antlers. The guys going for a walk and collecting a few for their pile aren't the problem
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Middle ground here - have a license requirement for the sales but the guy collecting a few for his own use is good to go.
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:yeah:
They are technically running a business and I personally think it should be treated as such. The amount of lawlessness (trespassing, wildlife harassment, assault and intimidation) that goes on with some areas that I used to shed hunt has gotten exponentially worse since it essentially became big business.
These guys that are out there intentionally "jumping" the deer herds and stressing out the animals just to get them to drop their sheds. I about got into a very serious situation once when a guy kept pushing this 170's 4 point. The buck had its tongue hanging out and laboring and the damn guy wouldn't leave it alone.
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Just wondering how a $100 license is going to lessen the pressure on the animals or insanity of the commercial guys...
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I don't know maybe it would expose them to the Dept of Revenue? They are technically a business operating without a business license? Make it $1,000 commercial license if they are selling them. Everything else is more expensive as a business. I can pull an L&I electrical permit as a homeowner for $X amount. If a licensed electrical contractor pulls the same permit for the same work it is 3-4 times $X (it has been a while since I have pulled one so no idea the cost these days)
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The above is a flat out lie. Electrical Business and Homeowners fill out the same permit app as each other and the permit is the same cost for each.... It's been this way for the last 20+ years. Maybe you haven't pulled a permit in that time.... I won't argue with you that there is additional cost of running a business but this isn't one of them.
Sneaky Squirrel:
--- Quote from: A. Cole on April 12, 2024, 09:52:24 AM ---I'm not in Washington at the moment, and haven't been able to shed hunt this year, but I do have two cents on the shed hunting license. Why make more laws/licenses when your not enforcing the ones you already have? Shooting at people is already illegal. Pressuring/harassing wildlife is already illegal. Trespassing is already illegal. If those rules would be enforced, would licenses make any difference?
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:yeah:
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