Nevada sheds`

LAST EDITED ON Mar-21-14 AT 12:45PM (MST)[p]I just read on RMEF Nevada is wanting to institute shed dates for collection and you must buy a hunting license to pick them up if this passes. That's crap...just another way for the man to grab your dollars.
What pricks

pretty much, its pretty bad when our own game boards are worse than the anti's

Id hope states would sell seperate shed license's from a what you have to buy to hunt and have the money go to preserving and improving winter ranges. Id be happy to shell out some cash for that...

Most people that I have talked to don't mind paying for a license of some sort. However, nobody can wrap their brain around the season idea. Will they arrest someone for picking up the February 20th antler dropped right on the road? Seriously, because plenty of guys and gals did that this year. If you don't ticket them, then why can't I get the one 50 yards off the road? And if you let me go on that, then what's stopping the next guy from glassing up a shed 600 yards further out (which is a normal activity you can do without bothering any critter)? Answer the question before you finalize the policy.

I cant answer that Dawgs, which is why I tried to argue my point, but upon deaf ears. They weren't hearing it and thought the season was nothing but good for the animals and all the stress they supposedly endure right now with the rough winters Nevada has.

Passed. The state board voted Saturday for the season with a start date of April 15th without a fee or license of any type from what the little LVRJ article had to say.

In my mind this is just another rule that will hurt the honest guy and benefit the dishonest guy. Nevada is a huge sparsely populated state. You would have to be very unlucky to get caught. So the honest guy stays home until April 15th and the dishonest guy picks up more horns than he ever has. I can't figure how the state can regulate antlers that have been shed. Are they still the property of the state after they shed? I know the animal is, but the shed antlers on the ground should not be property of the state. Can I walk and gps antlers as long as I don't touch them? Heck Utah has an island that they have shed hunting days on, and they can't even keep people from stashing them, how is a big state like nevada going to enforce this law? Try to enforcing the no motorized vehicle rules first and see if they can do that, Before they make new rules. The honest guy takes it in the shorts again.

can you post a link

The majority of people in Nevada are strongly opposed to this new law. A couple of people that are on the White Pine County and Lincoln County Wildlife Advisory Boards jammed this thru. Almost all of the 55 or so people that showed up for the White Pine County Advisory Board meeting were opposed yet it passed 2-1, go figure, I thought these people were on these boards to represent the people of their counties and not their personal agendas. The way it will be enforced is NDOW's wardens will be placing out decoy sheds near roads and writing tickets on them next spring, what an easy way to generate revenue. Many local businesses were opposed because of the monies that are generated in rural Nevada from the people shed horn hunting. Shed horn hunters buy fuel, food, tires, stay in motels, etc. Now that is pretty much done. What a joke, we go from no shed horn hunting laws to the strictest in the nation! Show me and data or scientific studies that show shed horn hunting is hurting wildlife? This is just another way to regulate us out of the woods!

There happens to be a facebook page with s post about this if you care to add comments. It also has a link to the article.

https://www.facebook.com/NvDOW?hc_location=timeline

This wasn't jammed thru by any of the County Advisory boards. This regulation was initiated by NDOW and has been in the works for the last few years. When they initially started discussing it a couple years ago they wanted to charge a fee for a permit to collect antlers and sell them. At least that portion of the regulation was dropped. Unfortunately I believe this regulation was introduced due to the amount of pressure southeast Nevada gets now from the shed hunters. I can tell you from firsthand experience that the amount of Utah people that come into NV starting in January through the spring is insane. It was a boom for the hotels in Pioche and Caliente though. The bulk of these individuals are not hitting the hills on foot, but on 4-wheelers or side by sides. I personally caught one Utah individual who posts frequently online about strapping their boots on and hiking for sheds actually riding his 4-wheeler with his girlfriend on the back miles from the nearest road looking for antlers in NV. He about jumped out of his skin when he saw me, and when I talked to him he wanted to make sure I didn't mention it to anyone as all his buddies would think less of him for riding offroad. The amount of 4-wheeler and side by side tracks you find in southeastern NV now is ridiculous, and the bad part is that it starts in January every year as everyone thinks they need to beat the next guys out there, regardless of if the deer have even shed their antlers or not. As much as I hate the regulation I think something needed to happen.

I agree with some of what you said downsouth, however, this will not be a very enforceable law, and will literally do next to nothing to stop any problem. There are already laws against riding, does that get stopped, hell no. And your right, the majority of it whether ppl choose to believe or not is from NONRESIDENTS. And all this business you say they bring just doesn't exist. They may stop at the 1st gas station for some good Nevada beer, but they are not pouring all this revenue into rural Nevada like a few of the county board members that saw this thru would have some believe. It is in my opinion a joke, you want to make laws, make ones that will actually work and that you can enforce.