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My guess is an archery kill that wasn't found...but odd that there were no othe parts of the animal nearby
no skulls period. that's how it reads. I'm curious to you guys that roll your eyes and say well i took it any way, how do you decide what game laws you will follow and what ones you will break? i may not agree with it but its a regulation that is in place.
All I can say is make sure you don't do that in Montana!... I was working on the 2007 Ahorn wildfire near Augusta with pretty much the sweetest assignment I had ever had: I was tasked to stay at a $60 million ranch in the middle of the wilderness with a crew and provide structure protection. It was the Klick family ranch, which has property in between the two forks of the Sun river... bordered by wilderness on one side, a wildlife preserve on another, and two sides by national forest. (can you say most amazing place to go back and hunt? Their waiting list is years long...) While working the fire, I found some AMAZING trophies: a big horn sheep skull (found both caps, too!), moose sheds, and an awesome elk shed. More than anything I just wanted to show other people to allow these things to be appriciated.Mr Klick calmly told me the following story..."you know, David Letterman offered us some $100 million for this ranch a while back... we gracefully declined. He found himself one nearly 50 miles north as the crow flies... one day, someone attempted to kidnap his offspring... unsuccessfully. Well, they knew who it was, so raided the fellows house... in the process, they found a few trophy animals hanging on the wall that the man had illegally taken." (whether that was to mean he killed them or took their horns post-death I don't know) "well, they immediately dropped the attempted kidnapping charges and pursued the charges for illegal possession of game animals, because it was greater fines and jail time than attempted kidnapping in Montana."Needless to say I put all my trophies back.
they were not illegally picked up they were illegally killed, one of them was the new state record typical muley,i highly doubt that the charges for illegal possession of game are carry greater jail time and fines than kidnapping, i believe kidnapping can carry a life sentece