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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: cmiller85 on April 16, 2011, 08:00:17 PM

Title: Pelt Sealing?
Post by: cmiller85 on April 16, 2011, 08:00:17 PM: Has anyone ever missed the deadline to get a pelt sealed or know the consequenses of missing the deadline?
Title: Re: Pelt Sealing?
Post by: bigtex on April 20, 2011, 05:03:06 PM: $162 criminal citation
Title: Re: Pelt Sealing?
Post by: rainshadow1 on April 20, 2011, 05:07:55 PM: I know someone who called several years in a row, sometimes multiple times, and thus far has never recieved a return call. Both leaving messages and talking to live voices saying they'd call him back soon...
Title: Re: Pelt Sealing?
Post by: bigtex on April 21, 2011, 08:45:51 PM: Each WDFW Enforcement Detachment (several detachments inside a region) does their sealing differently. Some require the individual to go to the regional office, some will meet you somewhere and some pick a day where you can show up and have pelts sealed (for example, the third Friday of every month we will seal pelts at X location from Xam-Yam)
Title: Re: Pelt Sealing?
Post by: cmiller85 on April 22, 2011, 09:46:12 AM: Thanks for the replies. I noticed in the 2011 regs that they changed the wording a bit on the sealing requirements to include hunters and trappers whereas the 2010 regs state that "hunters" (no mention to trappers) who harvest a cat need to get it sealed within 20 days of the close of the hunting OR trapping season. So it would seem to me that even though a person did not trap the cat he/she would technically have to April 20 to get it sealed since the trapping season ends on Mar 31st.

Probably one of those situations that would still get you a ticket if you did not have a trapping license but with the wording of the 2010 regs I would be surprised if a judge would allow the ticket to stand in court.