Nice find today

[lovemywinchester]

Went for a quick hike after work and found this beast in a swamp. Gotta love a pre made euro mount.

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l573/zippogold/IMGP7927.jpg

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l573/zippogold/IMGP7917.jpg

[lovemywinchester]

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l573/zippogold/5x5.jpg

[Jagermeister]

Bonus, and no rodent gnaw marks to boot. Good find. Cougar kill you think?

[doubled]

Cool find. I found one like that but smaller on Saturday.

[ncurrie]

awesome find:)

[Fisher-Dude]

Hose it off and hang it in your bedroom. :-D

[lovemywinchester]

Cougar maybe. Head and spine was all that was left. I found a lot of bones today all over as well as another 2 point skull so it looks like a heavy Pred area for sure. Lots of leg bones under big trees like the cat or yote curled up with its prize and had a meal. Saw a lot of droppings, tracks and a herd of mulies but no new sheds.

[TheProvider]

awesome find... cant wait to get out tomo

[BillyBull]

Great find... often wonder how the fight goes down with a buck that size ... or if it was just old and little to know struggle.

[lovemywinchester]

Hose it off and hang it in your bedroom. :-D

I have a spot in mind, where I took down the Brian Burke portrait.

[matt420]

GREAT FIND!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing

[hunter1947]

Nice find ,its nice to find remains like this makes for a good days shed hunt..

[MOUNTAIN MAN - TOYOTA/ATV]

Nice skull and antlers. Good shed hunting.

[lovemywinchester]

Its not the same rush finding a skull for me. Feels a little morbid picking them up actually. Finding a fresh shed is a different feeling because you know the deer is alive still, and growing! I have left a few deadheads in the bush now. Having said that I will take a big one like this any time.

[Philcott]

Didn't we have a discussion a while back about the legality of picking up antlers with the skull attached. Don't get me wrong I'm not criticizing and I would surely have picked it up too. I'm just trying to remember back to the other discussion. Anyone remember that thread?

[madrona sh]

Can't keep em, have to leave them.
Otherwise it opens a window for poached animals.
Must have a cut tag to go with your skull.

[lovemywinchester]

I was curious about that as well. Ill put them back.

[fester]

nice find!!

[Philcott]

You might just convert some tag soup into a European mount. Just saying. Probably safer than transporting it back into the woods.


HAVING FUN THERE LADDIE?

Um...er....well.... I was really putting it back sir.....really.....

[madrona sh]

Just finding things like that has to be reward enough.
I wish you could keep it.

[Islandbowhunter]

That's really too bad...can't you just leave them all gnarly and mossy, I don't think a poacher would treat their "trophy" like that...

Too bad, but I could understand why if that IS the law.

I'm going to read the regs again, can anybody reference it?

[Islandbowhunter]

KEEPING YOUR LICENCES
& RECORDS

4Hunters should keep all documents under
which an animal was taken until the animal
has been consumed. In the case of a mounted
trophy or a tanned hide, the licence and
Compulsory Inspection Data Sheet should
be kept in a safe place indefinitely. If a person
wishes to transfer the trophy to someone else
or requires an export permit to move it out of
the province, production of the original documentation
makes the transfer or the issuance of
a permit much easier. It will greatly assist MoE
staff if, when a hunter sells a trophy, the licences
and other documentation are transferred with
the trophy to the new owner.

Page 9 2011-12 regs. It's borderline, but he does have documentation showing the find site. Would you call this a "mounted trophy"?

What about a non-hunter hiker who happens to pick something like this up?

Fuzzy.

[Calamity]

Wow! Great stuff!

[madrona sh]

You have nothing to lose if you do not hunt.
As a hunter why on earth would you risk your hunting privileges over some bones?