LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-10 AT 03:23PM (MST)[p]Ok, say you had a limited entry tag to a premier Utah mule deer unit and you came across a 220+ inch NON-typical buck dead head, Would you sacrifice your tag to put on it and call the hunt over or would you leave it and hunt on? Just curious as to what people would do, even though i know most would probably just take it untagged...(tisk tisk)
What would you do?
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LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-10 AT 03:15PM (MST)[p]Add a little more to it. If It was a dead head I would take it. If it was dead only a few days, as if a hunter wounded it and I just came across it dead. Yes I would tag it or see if the warden would let me have it and keep hunting. I would not want to be caught with a few day old head in my pickup without a tag even if it was dead when I found it. Tag it or call the warden.
I would not take it or tag it. It would be illegal to take it. I would report it as a found head. Maybe i would get to keep it if it was a natural death of the deer. That is a hunting tag I have in my wallet. I like to hunt. I want to tag what I shoot, or not use my tag if I choose to. Hunting is a personal thing. Ethics are important.
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AndymanSavage
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1- illegal to take either way
2- report it and you MAY be allowed to keep it
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2- report it and you MAY be allowed to keep it
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How close the Arizona line?
Just kidding, I would turn it in and make it known that I want it back, and fight to get it back and probably never get it back.
I know people who would simply say they got it in AZ down south were I grew up, but I am a pretty strict observer of the law.
Dillon
Just kidding, I would turn it in and make it known that I want it back, and fight to get it back and probably never get it back.
I know people who would simply say they got it in AZ down south were I grew up, but I am a pretty strict observer of the law.
Dillon
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brenter12
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Hunting in wyoming a few years ago and found a really nice dead head, just left it there. Asked the warden at a check point if i could take them and was told no, I asked if I put my tag on them could I take them and again was told no but if I took the game and fish to them they would take them and put them in their bone pile. Those horns are still laying right where I found them, what a waste.
In my home state, I am taking enough pictures to cover my azz, then I am taking it......along with whatever I might end up tagging out on. Take my chances in court, if I got caught with it.
If I am out of my home state....it can sit there like I found it.
If I am out of my home state....it can sit there like I found it.
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Bust the skull plate and take one side... Stash the other for a different trip... Put 'em back together later...
Wouldn't that work..? Or is one side still considered a dead head..?
I would not want to break the law... And I would never use my tag on a "Dead Head"
Wouldn't that work..? Or is one side still considered a dead head..?
I would not want to break the law... And I would never use my tag on a "Dead Head"
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I own a couple 'Muley Crazy' DVDs and those guys pick up multiple huge Dead Heads... They do it right on camera so I assume they turn them in or something...? Does anybody know..? Are there permits or something you can get..?
And those DVDs have the biggest deer I've ever seen on them.
And those DVDs have the biggest deer I've ever seen on them.
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In arizona you must to have a permit to take it across state lines, as it is illegal to have it in Utah. It is called a transportation permit. I have one for the one I found that is on the latest Muleycrazy dvd.
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> Bust the skull plate and
>take one side... Stash the
>other for a different trip...
>Put 'em back together later...
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> Wouldn't that work..? Or is
>one side still considered a
>dead head..?
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> I would not want to
>break the law... And I
>would never use my tag
>on a "Dead Head"
In Utah that would still be a "dead head", to legally pick up bone it must be detached from the skull and have the burr....leaving sheds as the only option.
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>take one side... Stash the
>other for a different trip...
>Put 'em back together later...
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> Wouldn't that work..? Or is
>one side still considered a
>dead head..?
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> I would not want to
>break the law... And I
>would never use my tag
>on a "Dead Head"
In Utah that would still be a "dead head", to legally pick up bone it must be detached from the skull and have the burr....leaving sheds as the only option.
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rmanwill
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Most everyone is on the same page. Contact F&G and continue to hunt for your trophey of a life time. Too much time, years and points to tag a dead head!! You may end up getting the head if done properly and hopefully bag a buck of your own, which you could be proud to mount and display on your wall!!!
LAST EDITED ON Mar-10-10 AT 06:01PM (MST)[p]If I found it up here where I hunt, I'd take it if the rodents had done a good enough job to render it 'worthless' to the Crown. Here we can pick them up but have to take them to a Regional office and have them assessed for worth. If it is deemed greater value than a couple hundred bucks, it'll go to auction and all funds go into the government coffers. I would rather it rot out there than the government make free money off of my hard work packin' a stinky maggot infested deadhead out of the bush.
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I've walked by and away from hundreds of good sheds and some big dead heads in my day. I've also packed a few extraordinarily big non-typical ones back to camp for the pile, conversation pieces. Drops and dead heads have no value to me...or at least they haven't.
The few i brought home were given away or lost with time, the exception being one huge blacktail drop that i found the last day of one season and i killed that same buck the first day of the next within 200yds of where i found it's drop. I've been in places where i could see 6-8 big drops from one vantage point but never gave them a second look. I'm too busy looking for the buck that dropped them. Now, put some of those big racks on a live deer, i get plenty excited...right after i squeeze off the shot!
Joey
The few i brought home were given away or lost with time, the exception being one huge blacktail drop that i found the last day of one season and i killed that same buck the first day of the next within 200yds of where i found it's drop. I've been in places where i could see 6-8 big drops from one vantage point but never gave them a second look. I'm too busy looking for the buck that dropped them. Now, put some of those big racks on a live deer, i get plenty excited...right after i squeeze off the shot!
Joey
