Wyoming Shed Season BS

pymulies · Apr 12, 2016

I got one for you guys that don't like the shed season. I see in Area 82 they are letting out 550 doe fawn tags (type 6 and 8) The type 6 runs Oct 1-16 and the 8 from Dec 1-Jan 31.
And here I was thinking that shed season was closed for wildlife protection/harassment issues after Jan 1. But it is ok to go out there in three feet of snow and shoot them.

Genius. Sounds like a great litigation point for any shed hunter caught in an area with open season into January.

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bonepicker · Apr 12, 2016

Realistically, you could have up to 10-20% + of the bucks shed out by Jan. 31 in some areas. So potentially you could shoot a buck without antlers without knowing it (until you got up to it), seems like an odd time to have a deer hunt of any kind to me.

mulecreek · Apr 12, 2016

Where did you see the type 8 tags? I see the type 6 but could not find anything in regards to the type 8.

pymulies · Apr 12, 2016

https://wgfd.wyo.gov/WGFD/media/content/PDF/Regulations/CH-6_Draft-3-8-16-11.pdf

page 6-8

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JakeSwensen · Apr 12, 2016

>Realistically, you could have up to
>10-20% + of the bucks
>shed out by Jan. 31
>in some areas. So potentially
>you could shoot a buck
>without antlers without knowing it
>(until you got up to
>it), seems like an odd
>time to have a deer
>hunt of any kind to
>me.

This was brought up at the season setting meeting in Green River last month. The officers in attendance said the dates will likely be changed before the final regulations come out.

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Jake Swensen

HiMtnHntr · Apr 12, 2016

They say the deer are over objective. Was anything mentioned in the meeting about the winter in CO and it effect on deer in 82 that may have had a rough winter?

hornkiller · Apr 13, 2016

They are full of $hit if they say the deer are over objective! I just attended the mff banquet in kemmerer and they have been doing a bunch of studies the past few years on fawn survival. I'm not positive on these numbers but I believe they collared 52 fawns and 38 of them died from a disease that was found in deer in northern cali! With that kind of fawn loss how can they be over objective? this past winter wasent very good for the sw wy deer heard anyway.

hornkiller · Apr 13, 2016

I don't want to get started on the shed season because there really isn't a season when 90% of the sheds have been poached well before May 1st!

Cooper · Apr 13, 2016

That's too bad, bummer that some people just do whatever whenever

elks96 · Apr 13, 2016

Are these reduced price tags and if so how many can a nonresident buy? I will buy tags for wife and I will And not hunt it! The deer are not in that great of shape in 82. They will screw that unit up! it

jm77 · Apr 16, 2016

The 500 type 6 tags are an Oct season. The type 8 tag, good until Jan 31, amounts to 50 doe/fawn whitetail good on private land only. That's a non-starter...

We should fight shed seasons on their merits; they cause more headaches than they cure.