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Planning on moving in near future. Wondering what to do with probably 75 ? sets of antlers from bucks I have shot over the years. I believe it is against the law to sell them ?
Let me know your thoughts, thanks.

Sell them if you want. Not illegal.

Except for in wonderful California:

Fish and Game Code, section 3039 generally prohibits selling or purchasing any part of a bird or mammal found in the wild in California. Complete antlers, whole heads with antlers, antlers mounted for display or antlers in the velvet may not be sold or purchased at any time.Dec 5, 2014

If you have any Mennonites there, they'll probably buy them. The ones here are fixated on deer antlers. They would rather shoot a scrawny little spike buck, rather than a big fat doe, just so they can nail the antlers up on their barn. They also will cut the antlers off any deer that's run over on the road.

They can be sold, but in many states not as intact skulls, mostly to dissuade unscrupulous poaching and marketing of high value trophies. Don't know about Ca. Buyers here will break the skull apart or saw off the antlers. Dealers pass through here several times through out the year and are mostly servicing furniture builders or a variety of artists as the end market. One might surf up a nearby vendor in the antler realm and maybe cut out a middle man.

Again, things can get tricky for mounted heads etc. I'm not up to date on those regs, but in the past I think Oregon's taxidermists were allowed to recoup costs for unclaimed mounts but were not supposed to profit.

Beginning of the year, it became legal to claim road kill in Oregon. Meat only, with antlers turned in to game and fish. There's also a need to notify authorities ASAP, but I've not brushed up on the specifics. Not quite that hungry yet.

Maybe iilegal in communist California ? I had a table at a gun show here a couple of years ago, and the guy with the table next to me had a couple sets on his table for sale. 2 guys from the Dept. of Fish and game told him to remove them from his table, as he could be sighted. Was watching Mountain Men show awhile back, and the guy from Montana was talking about how much he could sell antlers for.

Amazon sells deer horns, thought the consensus was they didn't work.

Yes. The whistles have pretty much disappeared from the market. I center punched a big doe once at 70 mph with that very equipment on the bumper. Mechanic assembled a trophy for my office featuring several truck parts with the whistles on the top.

Cut them up for dog chews. The pet stores get big money for them. I have a really big pile in the cellar and about the only thing they are good for except taking up space is the grand kids like to play with them.

My neighbor swears by an electric deer horn that she has to turn on.

Used to be illegal to sell any wildlife parts in PA. Don't know now.

Stack them in a pile, wrap bailing string around them and call it an art piece.

Then you could probably sell them.....I mean the artistic expression.

Cabella's used to sell a chandelier that looked like that, a pile of antlers glued together wired with lights.

I sold mine through an antique store.
Think most bought for knife handles and artsy stuff.
Nothing over 130".....so was just beer money

Grind em up and sell them to some impotent Chinaman.

If you have any that are busted up with good main beams I would like to buy them and try them on knife handles. I've never made an antler handle.

Sell them on EBAY.

I knew them as whistles.

I know that in Texas it is illegal to cut the antlers off of road kill, or to take any meat from road kill.
Not sure about a deer that you killed legally.

Thats silly.

In many places, there will be a guy pulled off the road in his truck with a sign proclaiming that he buys antlers.
Dont know about in Kali.