https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...in-self-defense-keeps-claws-as-a-memento

Regulations can get you sometimes. Timber rattlers are protected here. Some post pics of snakes they have killed. Not smart!

I wonder if they are protected in Ga? If not, is it legal if I have a hat band from a Georgia snake?

I’ve seen some drone footage on deer that could get people a citation for sure

Dude just shuts his mouth and goes on with life and all is well.

Dude can't keep his mouth shut and trouble comes knocking.

Well yes, all Gods creatures indeed belong to the state huh? I run a nice tight clean and quiet management program here.

5000 bucks and three years probation for some claws?


Sheesh.

http://statebystategardening.com/state.php/newsletters/stories/is_it_illegal_to_kill_a_snake/#geo

He got off lucky. As soon as he crossed state borders he violated the Lacey Act.

We have a notorious outfitter in Alberta. 30 years ago there was a fire at a taxidermy shop in Edmonton. It was a assumed that a particularly large and distinctive whitetail rack was destroyed in the fire.

A few months later, a person familiar with the rack noticed the rack mounted on a whitetail allegedly from either Texas or Mexico (I can't remember which) in a magazine. The mounted rack was in Texas.

It was reported to Fish and Wildlife who contacted US Fish and Wildlife. Investigations in Alberta and Texas established the theft of the rack and transport to Texas. US Fish and Wildlife issued an arrest warrant for the Alberta outfitter who partook in the caper.

It must be over 30 years ago as I was in college in Lethbridge and a US Fish and Wildlife Officer presented a lecture on waterfowl poaching in Arkansas and Louisiana. He casually mentioned the whitetail case and said they wanted the outfitter bad. He jokingly said if we could get the outfitter within a few miles of the border, we should call him and Officers would come pick him up.

A few years later, the outfitter was flying to Austrailia to hunt. US Fish and Wildlife Officers had the plane land in Hawaii where the outfitter was arrested.

That's the gist of the story. Don't cross state borders with illegal wildlife. Bad juju.

No. The penalty was for illegally killing a grizzly. I think he got off lightly.

All he had to do was dial the phone. He didn't. Only a dumbass would SSS for a justified DLP shooting.

No. That would be 5000 bucks and three years probation for poaching a grizzly bear to get some claws. If it was truly a defensive shooting, he would probably have been OK except for the trophy keeping. Most self defense shootings of grizzlies are, in reality, pre-emptive in nature; not that I necessarily blame the shooters in all cases. GD

Thanks, Om.
BTW, missing your hunting and forest pics.

You can't fix stupid!
And he sounds like a prime example.

You can legally kill on in self defense but you can't keep any part of it. SSS can get you in big trouble, too, if it's found out. Just tell them what happened and you're ok. This guy was stupid.
Always keep in mind, though, that to a liberal mind, an animal is worth more than a person.

Yep, In Arkansas if there isn't a listed season for it you can't kill it. Had a guy bring into the ER a copper head that had bit him. After identifying the snake we had to release it.

That's like the high school dudes tapping the 20something teacher who forget Stroke, Skeet and Shup Up

This clown from Idaho got off too easy on Lacey Act violations as well if you ask me. He made $200,000 on illegal guiding and received a $20,000 fine. Anybody know if being banned from hunting in AK will carry over to a ban in Idaho?
https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/hunting/article239946868.html

Unless, of course, it wasn't really a justified Self Defense Shooting. Dumbass for sure.

Yes yes you are a dumbass...

For sure he had problems with the final S, as he coughed up all kinds of admissions.

Without doing the research, I think so. I believe Alaska has reciprocity agreements with a number of states.

I too suspect it was not a legit DLOP shooting.

A few decades ago a couple GI's in Galena (AF base), Alaska, where I was working at the time, claimed a DLOP on a bull moose. The investigating Protection Officer didn't think two rounds through the lungs counted....

He S'd but he didn't S and S.