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So you find some illegal stands while scouting....
- Thread starter Hunter260
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Do what? Where does it say that about gutting? WMA or Refuge or what type of land? That was not my understanding at all.
Plus I’ve seen carcasses left all over the local refuge. 8 total last year by gates too....
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Bankhead. I would have to read the rules for where you hunt. If you can up there, I will be up there next season for sure! lol
This scenario is not uncommon where I hunt (probably not uncommon everywhere) but I don't hesitate to set up near them. If someone shows up to hunt it, I'll move on. That's one of the advantages of being a mobile hunter.
A perk to it is that it freaks guys out when they just get set up and suddenly there's someone rappelling out a tree near them.
A perk to it is that it freaks guys out when they just get set up and suddenly there's someone rappelling out a tree near them.
If you read the back of any WMA map I'm aware of, it says no gut piles left on the property. Doesn't mean I havent left plenty. I think it's mainly to try and keep people from ditching carcasses in parking lots and off of bridges. But I've never hunted a property that didn't have gut piles on it. I prefer to clean my deer where they lay, far away from anybody who will have to smell it.
Oh yea I forgot some wma’s require you weigh in your deer too. Ima have to read the rules and regs again. I’ve went back a day later and there has been no guts.
I take them down and leave them at the base of the tree. It’s illegal on public in MN and drives me nuts.
Definitely read each area's rules carefully. Some have weigh ins, some have daily permits that are issued by the GW on site, some have daily permits you pull from a kiosk, some have harvest report books, etc
It's a mess.
It drives me nuts too. I find them all over on public in MN. In one area I hunt there is a conservation officer that takes this very seriously and actually will do something about these stands if I give him the GPS location. He has actually staked out a stand on opening of gun season and been able to ticket a violator I reported to him. Other stands he has gone in and confiscated. Unfortunately, he is rare as other conservation officers don't seem to care too much about this.
Yeah, most don't care. Shoot, I walked one warden straight to a stand, a camera, and a corn pile. Told him I just didn't want to be out there hunting and stumble upon it and get the blame and the ticket. He blew it off as "there are so many people doing that and this swamp is so huge, we don't have the manpower to change it."
Okee dokee
I've done that a couple of times to old stands that obviously had not been hunted out of for a while
Anywhere there's yotes (pretty much everywhere again) a gut pile isn't going to last more than a day.
Just talked to DCNR. Ba
I just talked to DCNR. I was totally wrong on Bankhead. They said Wheeler has their own regs. I'm not afraid to eat crow. With a little salt and pepper... lol
Yep. Especially out in the woods. Now, if you like them up in an area where human presence deters them, or throw them in a creek over a bridge, theyll rot. Scavengers wont touch them then. Best thing to do is leave them where they died. I always bust the guts open as the last thing I do before walking away. Lets the little scavengers (possums, coins, etc) do their thing easier.I've come back the next day to nothing but hair and scuffed leaves.
I thought they were eaten pretty quickly. I drug my deer out last year past a gut pile that looked to be about a week old. The only thing eating it were flies. The area I hunt has 3 steel ladder stands within eyesight of each other. I have never seen anyone there. The climbing stand I saw locked up in this area disappeared so I guess it was reclaimed. It was pretty nice. Saddles are nicer.
I see this literally all the time here in Pa and Wv. Not gonna lie, I just kinda ignore that they are there, it's not going to help anything if someone wants to say I stole the stand or whatever, and it's also not going to get taken care of by the wardens. Now I do pick up trash and such but an old stand is not worth the intrusion, effort or aggravation that removing it would cause... but that's me. Honestly, you gotta do you, I'm not concerned about whatever you decide to do because honestly its situational, and it's your choice. I do know this though its not going stop any time soon, that's for sure.