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Other Activities => Shed Hunting => Topic started by: wastickslinger on February 23, 2009, 02:25:32 PM

Title: An ATL I Had to Part With!
Post by: wastickslinger on February 23, 2009, 02:25:32 PM: Too bad I had to leave it behind. Decent 140 class will lay and rot.
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Post by: mossback91 on February 23, 2009, 02:29:32 PM: nice skull find!!
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Post by: bankwalker on February 23, 2009, 02:44:44 PM: i think these regulations saying we cant pick up skulls with antlers needs to be changed.

i would give anything to stumble up on something like that. and it would be very hard for me not to take it.

back when i was younger i found a 2x5 blacktail skull and antler. the 5point side had 2 10" drop tines. it was heartbreaking to leave it behind. i left it on a stump and another truck with 2 guys took it.

i should have just took it. :bash:
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Post by: mossback91 on February 23, 2009, 02:47:00 PM: I will tell you this I have never taken a skull that I found in the woods :rolleyes:
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Post by: mossback91 on February 23, 2009, 03:04:34 PM: :chuckle:
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Post by: 509er on February 23, 2009, 05:45:35 PM: Too bad :(
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Post by: bullchaser on February 23, 2009, 06:25:21 PM: Ok gents what the heck is an ATL
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Post by: 509er on February 23, 2009, 06:26:28 PM: as they lay if you are talking about sheds
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Post by: 509er on February 23, 2009, 06:27:43 PM: or as they lie if you are talking about the shed hunter. :chuckle:
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Post by: boneaddict on February 23, 2009, 06:30:23 PM: NO FAIR. I left mine without even thinking about it. LOL
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Post by: bullchaser on February 23, 2009, 06:34:48 PM: You dont know how many times i wondered that thanks.
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Post by: bow-n-head on February 23, 2009, 06:44:10 PM: Quote from: bullchaser on February 23, 2009, 06:25:21 PM
Ok gents what the heck is an ATL
I have been wondering what that ment also :P
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Post by: boneaddict on February 23, 2009, 06:46:03 PM: on a side note, kinda think I have that buck on film. hmmmmmmm will have to go back and look for him.
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Post by: bow-n-head on February 23, 2009, 06:47:56 PM: They passed that law in Montana about 15 years ago. It lasted about 8 months and they repealed it, thank god.
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Post by: boneaddict on February 23, 2009, 06:50:04 PM: It has a good purpose but stinks. I'd e-mail them with a pic. Its probably not going to be labelled as "poached" so they may let you have it. I had a friend get an OK for a Ram skull last year. Surprised the heck out of me.
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Post by: Alan K on February 23, 2009, 06:52:26 PM: I'd have taken it anyways. . .
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Post by: Wea300mag on February 23, 2009, 06:54:07 PM: That blows!!!
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Post by: Birdguy on February 23, 2009, 07:10:44 PM: Man sometimes it is tough to do the right thing :bash:. Great example of ethics right there. Great find!
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Post by: luvtohnt on February 23, 2009, 07:24:04 PM: My brother in law and I found two rams that had broken their necks. I am assuming from fighting, I called and asked and even gave detailed descriptions of where they were and they told me not to touch them. I also found an elk skull once that the right side grew out and around the front of his nose, obviously causing it to starve, and still couldn't pick that up either.I think it stinks but I wouldn't want the law overturned either.

Brandon
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Post by: mrgoodwrench on February 23, 2009, 08:22:58 PM: *censored*, we pick up skulls all the time at work....even with wdfw employees, no one has ever said a word about it.
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Post by: 509er on February 23, 2009, 09:12:17 PM: dont worry duck, I made sure it was OK!
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Post by: wastickslinger on February 23, 2009, 10:52:55 PM: I'll take you to it for a few photos if you want.
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Post by: ICEMAN on February 24, 2009, 06:37:11 AM: Some laws are meant to be broken.
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Post by: ICEMAN on February 24, 2009, 06:39:21 AM: Who is to say you didn't shoot that buck legally, then tie it's head in a place off of the ground, to let the birds, bugs, and bacteria do their work, for you to return later...?
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Post by: Alan K on February 24, 2009, 08:59:27 AM: Yeah. . . I don't think it's unethical to pick up a skull you find.

Now if you shot the thing, waited a while and went to pick it up, that would be unethical.

This law is like the cell phone law of hunting. Absolutely rediculous.

Also, I don't know if this law is in place in Colorado, but every year I go I pick up 90% of the sheds and winter kill bulls and bucks I find and have never been in any kind of trouble over it. A game warden there told me I had found quite a pile one time when he checked my deer, and there were at least 3-4 skulls in the back of the truck with my buck.
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Post by: BLUEBULLS on February 24, 2009, 10:11:44 AM: here's one I found this year. The DFW doesn't let you pick up skulls but when you give them exact directions to it they do nothing. I called them on this one when it was probably not even a day old and they didn't do a thing. I would have liked his skull because I have sheds from him and pictures from last year but with there being a bullet hole in his upper foot I didn't dare touch him. Someone has since went in and hacked his horns off with a hatchet or something. He was obviously poached and they did nothing. >:( >:( >:(
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Post by: Tikka Bird Dog on February 24, 2009, 11:26:31 AM: i agree 100% on that being a stupid law. i tell you what if i found a nice winter kill or cougar kill you bet your ass that rack will find its way into my collection of horns. SCREW EM ;)
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Post by: Tikka Bird Dog on February 24, 2009, 11:32:15 AM: they way i see it either someone else gets the rack, like your example above with the poached buck, or the mice get it. id rather have it then let the mice eat it!i hate seeing the poached buck theres just too much of that going around, some people just dont have any sence of respect! >:(