Sheds at feeding stations?

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singleshot21

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We have been feeding about three hundred head this winter and the bone is starting to pile up out there. Is it ethical to pick up the sheds? Or are we supposed to leave them there until spring comes?
 
If it is in the Northern Ut unit you should leave them alone till the season...

If you are in colorado It's a different story
 
Pick them up and pile them some where give em to the DWR if you like. If you don't guys will start visiting your stations looking for an easy pick up causing even more stress on the deer. Out of site out of mind

Justin Richins
R&K Hunting Company Inc.
www.thehuntingcompany.com
 
If your making trips to feed the deer then you are already moving them around a little which cannot be helped. You doing more good than harm. So if you can pick up the sheds without disturbing the deer then get them and do what was stated above. Sell them to buy more deer chow. fatrooster.
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-16-08 AT 06:02PM (MST)[p]Just make sure you get them before Crazy Karl. Good on you for helping feed the critters.
 
Its an added bonus for all the volunteers helping feed deer in the Gunnison Basin. Anybody helping feed critters and doing more than their share deserves a brown tined bonus.

As far as the money goes, the COlorado governor appropriated 1.7 million for the feeding program so I will be curious to see how this all shakes out and where the donations go and the surplus if any. We still have about 4 weeks of strong winter potential in the critical areas.
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-16-08 AT 07:46PM (MST)[p]I hope the state follows the rules on the shed season. Why would there be any difference in them "gathering" them out of season then the average joe who isnt feeding them? Its still a person picking up sheds. I have donated time, money, and personal equiptment to this state and others this year to help deer. Doesn't mean I get to break the law.

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This is for Northern Utah, not Co.
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Later, Brandon
 
I agree Brandon and I wouldn't advocate breaking the law. I do know enterprising shed hunters have already been licking their bone picking chops at the thought of gathering an arm load of fresh brown from a mule deer bait station. I think it would be good to pick them up in the immediate vicinity to avoid having the temptation for sneaky, nocturnal, headlamp wearing, shed hunters blowing the deer out when no one else is looking. Maybe auction them at the big Utah antlerfest to have the proceeds go towards a mule deer related project in the area they were picked up.
 
DON'T TOUCH THEM SUCKERS!!! YOU MUST REPORT THEM TO 1-800-RUS-PKUP! I have a contract with the Game & Fish! I am the only guy authorized other than karren to deviate from common sense in these matters!

RUS
 
Good point Browtine. Here in Nevada we do not have a shed hunting season so I did not think of that issue. fatrooster.
 
In Utah we have been told not to touch them at the feeding stations, I've yet to see any on my days feeding. They told us to leave them tell April. At one site I see boot prints going up the trail we use to feed. That's the site with the most deer, so some dumb a is picking them up (I Think thats what they are doing). Hope he or she gets busted.

Later,
AntlerKing
 
Pick em' up! Or call me and I will!

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"Live for somethin' or die for nothin'"
 
>Its an added bonus for all
>the volunteers helping feed deer
>in the Gunnison Basin.
>Anybody helping feed critters and
>doing more than their share
>deserves a brown tined bonus.
>
>
>As far as the money goes,
>the COlorado governor appropriated 1.7
>million for the feeding program
>so I will be curious
>to see how this all
>shakes out and where the
>donations go and the surplus
>if any. We still
>have about 4 weeks of
>strong winter potential in the
>critical areas.

Except the DOW passed a law this year making it illegal to pick up sheds in the Gunnison Basin 3/15 to 5/15 on public land. Now since they have closed the public lands to ALL activities, how do you think they would feel about the DOW feeders picking up the sheds? Not quite kosher with the Rules they are imposing on the rest of us is it? Plus, they get to ride a snow machine out to pick them up and haul them home? Guess they wouldn't be considered volunteers anymore now would they? More like law breakers...

Nice advice Buckspy...(roll)
 
...and that is why we have shed laws. People cannot use that round thing on their shoulders. They are like 3 year old kids, they need someone to tell them what to do, right or wrong, and put them in time out if necessary.

What a question. Sheds at feeding stations? Gawd.
 
I hope some day to be as enlightened as the almight ktc. It is always good to here how some of the good ole boys from MM are so far ahead of the rest of us. Shed laws my arse you can drive up any of the roads where I live and watch the people just waiting for the first bull to drop and then the race is on. It is my new goal in life to be more like ktc so I don't have to go in time out, to be the total law obeying citizen and to let others know that I am so darn smart.
 
I hope one day you are enlightened also. Who on God's green earth could be so damn dumb as ask a bunch of people on the internet if it is ok to pick up bone at a feeding station? Is it ethical? Did your mom and dad teach you anything?

I am not sure how smart I am, but I can damn sure make up my own mind if and where I can pick up a shed. Quit being a sheep and decide for yourself if it is "ethical". You decide and let us know how it goes.

Drive up the roads where you live? Not a chance. I prefer my bone hooked to a skull with a brain inside.

Typical Utard.....
 
a Real tough guy. Funny how everybody flip flops on here depending who starts the post or how many of the club say one thing or another. Keep up the good work ktc we need a few more self rightous people just like you.
 
+1 its amazing how some people have to be A$$ holes!!! a simple question and yet they act like there a god! I had the dwr at my home in N. Utah last weekend. where i feed my sheep ive had alot of bone on the ground and He (Dwr) told me it was ok to pick them up around where i feed. Its a little different situation so i dont know the correct answer. im just pissed people are PRICKS
 
I will agree, a very simple question. Self-righteous and a prick? Come on now. That is very hurtful coming from two guys asking if it is ok if they pick up a shed.

I guess this is where I am coming from, and no, I am not a member of any good ol' boy club. I can speak on my own behalf. People (like myself) have donated money to help pay for feed in these feeding areas. One guy has to ask if he can go pick up sheds at one of these feed areas. Why not let the deer rest and eat? Yes, I am in disbelief that anyone would ask a simple question like this. If that makes me self-righteous and a prick then so be it. Like I said before, this is exactly why shed laws are being implemented and discussed. Use your melon and figure it out on your own.
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-08 AT 01:59PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-08 AT 01:46?PM (MST)

I agree with you Ktc but the way you came across didnt help. Im not calling you a prick, im sure your a good guy or girl? but it was your words towards others that was prickish and im sorry i said that! But thats all i see on this site is others bashin on others. I think the only people that should be in the feeding areas are the people feeding. Everyone else should STAY OUT!!! but while the people are feeding and there is bone around pick it up and store it then sell it to help the costs. If you leave it on the ground someone will sneak in and pick it up causing more harm to the animals.
And the original post said he was feeding around 300 deer and was asking if they could pick it up. maybe for personal reasons maybe cuz its getting hard to make your way around all that bone. he wasnt asking to sneak in where he didnt belong.
 
Fair enough.

The question was asked about picking up sheds in a feed area. I gave my opinion. I was not trying to rip the guy apart, rather think about what was being asked. I totally agree with your last post. If you stumble over one feeding pick it up, if you have to go after it let it be, and no one should be there except the people feeding. It just appears to me that the shed hunters, by what I read, are hurting themselves. I do not purposely hunt sheds so that is no issue with me. I just want the deer to survive this winter. If singleshot is feeding, like it sounds like he is, good on him!

I hate to admit it, but law abiding? Ha! I try to be, but I have paid plenty in fines as a young dumb ass. ;-)
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-08 AT 05:26PM (MST)[p]If there is that much bone Please pick it up and give it to DWR I would hate to see what it will do to your tracks if you run over them.

I need SFW address in South Weber with st address and zip.
 
I have been shed hunting for the last ten years and have enjoyed every minute of it. I love seeing all the pics in this forum and the happy faces on the lucky guys who have put in the time and been sucsessful over the years. But it is real frustrating to see someone get his name ran through the dirt becuase he wont tell someone where he picked antlers. This happens all the time on this site. I have never signed up for membership becuase of this reason. I also do not want to see a shed season here in Utah, but when i see what is taking place I fully support it(People chasing deer and elk, fighting over antlers and telling people just out for a wildlife viewing to get the hell out becuase these are my elk or my deer.)After reading this post and all the comments i had no choice but to speak my mind! The firts few comments about picking up antlers and selling,let the feeders have them and picking them up so they dont get alot of people pushing the deer arround. I will agree it is breaking the (law) but it is the right thing to do in these circumstances beyond our control. But then there is the post by what i think is one of the sites managers or founders. He is saying to leave the antlers alone and pick them up in the spring when the law says. He is saying that the F&G is above the law if they pick them up, i think we all knpw that is not the case. They are just doing what is best for the animals. It makes me wonder when i see all the hunters arguing back and forth what the owners of MM are thinking. Are they waiting their turn to jump in and call someone a prick(which is exactly what happened here) and keep fueling the fire.Or are they going to try and difuse the situation and keep all of us together so we can have hunting and fishing in the future.
 
A wise comment as I see it. Following the law is important. To me, following the spirit of the law is most important. Will the deer heard be better or worse off this Spring? That is the question.
 

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