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[Deadeye]

Goldhunter, what you say is true but having the season and the certificate doesn't stop those folks from chasing the animals til their antlers fall off. They still do it.
Deadeye

 

[ApprenticeBuilder]

Then there is the obvious part of the equation.

 

[Robert Egler]

Pa has some really stupid rules about antlers. If from a Buck you harvested, you may only sell, trade or dispose of the antlers within 90 days. After that there are really strict rules against selling or giving them away. To make finished products (buttons, powder measures, etc.) and sell them, there is another set of stupid rules. I would figure if the deer was legally harvested, the antlers are 100% your property to do as you please, BUT, PA has other ideas.

In North Carolina it is illegal to sell antlers no matter how they were obtained, by hunting or picking up sheds.

 

[Goldhunter]

Goldhunter, what you say is true but having the season and the certificate doesn't stop those folks from chasing the animals til their antlers fall off. They still do it.
Deadeye

Oh, I know. Some Utards will always be Utards. :idunno:

 

[Goldhunter]

when there is money involved humans get stupid and accourding to "fur-fish n game" magazine elkis going for about $8.00 apound wholesale

Antlers are HUGE business. It's one of the reasons the elk shed roundup and the following auction in Jackson Hole are so huge! It's run by the Boy Scouts IIRC. Those that can find a big concentration can make some decent money selling to collectors, antler furniture makers, etc. The Scouts get to go onto the refuge, the rest of the public gets to hunt for sheds on the FS land surrounding. It's an insane event and quite the time!

They make great furniture and I have a lamp I made out of some sheds I found up in Jackson. I've been told I could sell it for anywhere between $150-$300 and all it cost me was about $25 in parts and some time, oh and great day in the mountains.

 

[Rev_William]

when there is money involved humans get stupid and accourding to "fur-fish n game" magazine elkis going for about $8.00 apound wholesale

Antlers are HUGE business. It's one of the reasons the elk shed roundup and the following auction in Jackson Hole are so huge! It's run by the Boy Scouts IIRC. Those that can find a big concentration can make some decent money selling to collectors, antler furniture makers, etc. The Scouts get to go onto the refuge, the rest of the public gets to hunt for sheds on the FS land surrounding. It's an insane event and quite the time!

They make great furniture and I have a lamp I made out of some sheds I found up in Jackson. I've been told I could sell it for anywhere between $150-$300 and all it cost me was about $25 in parts and some time, oh and great day in the mountains.

I lived in West Yellowstone, MT from just before the fire in 88 til 92 at the time sheds were going for about $14 a pound to $75 an ounce for antlers in velvet. At the time a good matched set could be mounted and sold to tourists for around $1500. I think it was 89 a guy drowned bringing out over 1000 lbs trying to sneak them out of Yellowstone park on rubber rafts. They consider horn hunting in the park almost worse than poaching.

 

[hoochiepapa]

ANY time shed hunting is a great time!