A place I leased for 25 years was sold. I had to get my cshit and get gone.
That happens a lot, Hanco.
Last year the Mississippi dwf wasn’t seeing any big buck reports and went to investigating as to why.
Upon visiting taxidermist shops they found bodacious bucks being mounted.
They then found that the hunters were keeping their mouths shut so that their leases wouldn’t be scooped away by folks offering much more money.
I belong to a group that forbids posting any harvest publicly. One guy took a very old 12 point with a double main beam and sent it to the local paper and put it on FB.
Zapped and adios .
Our wardens visit taxi shops on surprise inspections, kill tags and logged checkin no.s have to attached to the skull plate while in the shop.
Unless you got a speak easy taxidermist, but that is far fetched.
Maybe your laws or warden discretion is different?
What are you asking, Slum?
Maybe I read it and inferred that deer we not being officially tagged in and your local taxidermist was “in on the misdoings”
Okay, got it now.
No, the deer were properly taken and tagged as they should have been but the missing link was that there were so few’bragging rights’ on display in the local newspaper Sportsman pages, big buck contests, etc.
In other words, some folks and hunting clubs learned some hard lessons with pictures, locations, etc. and lost leases that they’d held for many years and developed into trophy potential.
That’s what I was inferring, Slum.
Ain’t nothing gets a Duck in trouble but his beak.
