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pinenut

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I just had to ask this...

What is up with posting a picture on the main MM homepage of a couple of ATV's piled high with bones? Everybody who sees that picture has got to think those guys drove crosscountry on the ATV's and picked up those sheds. If they were on public land they were very likely breaking the law to do that...if they were legal (either on private or unprotected public) most people would see that as disturbing anyway. Regardless of the circumstances behind the picture i do not see the picture in any way as a "trophy" pic because of the way the antlers were found...and i am sure many people on this site would agree. Just about every photo in the shed section would be better to feature in that spot than the one that is currently there...IMO.

Am i way off base with that assumption?

Peace,

RPinenut
 
RIGHT ON TRACK PineNut!!!

I WONDER HOW MUCH GROUND WAS TORE TO HELL???

WAS ALL THE SHEDS GATHERED IN ONE DAY AS THE PIC CONVINCES???

IS THERE ANY CARE FOR PUBLIC GROUND???

IS THE PICTURE AS TRUE AS DARNERS???

THE BOOKCLIFFS ARE BEING TOTALLY DESTROYED BY LAW-BREAKERS ON ATV'S!!!

BLM JUST SITTING ON THEIR LAZY ASSES DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT???

OUT LAW THESE LAW-BREAKING BICHES OFF PUBLIC GROUND!!!

IF THEY WANT TO TEAR THEIR OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY TO HELL LET THEM DO IT!!!

THE ONLY bobcat WANTING TO HEAR THE STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE!!!
 
I have serious doubts that all these sheds were found on one trip. It looks like years of horn collecting all piled up for the photo. If they actually did find these with their ATV's, I would be very offended and I think they ought to spend a little time in jail and fined heavily for all of the destruction they have caused. Every year I hike my butt off trying to find the last couple of sheds that the ATV riders haven't found. In the best Elk areas, I find that ATV's have cris-crossed the entire area and there is no way any Elk antlers haven't been found - even in the thick brush. It's disgusting.
 
One of my neighbors works for the BLM. He told me that currently it is legal to go basically anywhere on an ATV in the Book Cliffs but he expects that to change soon.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-03-06 AT 08:43PM (MST)[p]I have a couple of friends that shed hunt here in Colorado and they have told me stories of guys on ATVs gridding winter ground and running for hours picking up sheds and destroying mature sage. These guys are brothers and they are shed hunting nuts and they are furious. Last I heard they had turned in the plate number of the people doing this to the DOW. They told me that the guys were from Utah, or at least had Utah plates. I hope they get HAMMERED!

Drum
 
YA!!!

HERE IN UTARD THEY RUN GRIDS WITH GPS!!!

NOT A FRICKEN SQUARE INCH THAT AIN'T GOT ATV TRACKS THROUGH IT!!!

I KNOW OF A KID THAT RUINED 3 ATV TIRES IN ONE DAY!!!

DOES THAT TELL YOU ANYTHING???

IN SOUTHERN UTARD THEY FLY THE ELK EVERYDAY,WHEN A HORN IS DROPPED ITS GPSed FOR LATER COVENIENCE!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THAT CAN'T & WON'T COMPETE WITH IDIOTS LIKE THESE!!!
 
Its tuff to TREAD LIGHTLY if your blowin 3 tires a your quad in one day of hunting sheds. Would be nice to have a little more info on the pic
 
These are the guys that are going to ruin it for everyone..
And they are probably the ones who throw out all the frickin beer cans too....
Hate to group people but they seem to be one and the same..
They don't care about the laws, or ethics..
 
Just for your info, not that it makes any difference, but those are all Saskatchewan sheds and were more than likely picked up on private ground as that is what 90% of the land here in southern Saskatchewan is. Shed hunting has become extremely popular up here and is getting very competitive. I have basically stopped going ( only went out one day this year) because I don't enjoy having to race people to sheds. I am surprised they found that many,( looks like quite a few whites), even on quads, as it is very hard to find an area that has not been picked in previous years. That is another reason I am fairly certain this is private ground.

Saskman
 
LAST EDITED ON May-03-06 AT 10:25PM (MST)[p]Now that is funny. You know what they say about assumptions? :) Wonder if those who posted up will eat crow or just go on another rampage on someone else's shed pics. Those chicks on horses seem to have stirred some up. Just think of all that country those horses are ripping up. ;)
Those Sask boys are probably saving the farmer some serious repair bills. I hear that tine can really do some damage to the farm equipment.
 
I know nothing about the photo so I can say nothing about it but to imply horses (hooved animal with similar impact to land as elk and deer) "rip up the land" like ATVs with their water directing, bush stomping tires is IDIOTIC!!!!
To my knowledge, the folks in the photos did nothing wrong or unethical but I do sure hate to look at a nice remote hillside with native crested wheat crushed down in that parallel ATV tire pattern months and months after the vehicle had traveled there. UGLY.
To heck with the ecosystem and man induced erosion, save tractor tires!

life IS good
 
Some of you folks are a real piece of work!!! You read way too much in between the lines on every pic and story posted to the site. Just because someone posts a picture of a shed on a quad in no way does it imply that they rode the quad cross country to find it. Some of you really like to jump to conclusions without any warrant.

Just because we see a picture of a dead buck in the back of a truck doesn't mean the guy drove the truck through the forrest to kill the buck.

I have no idea who those guys are or how they found the sheds. Unless you can prove different quit assuming they did anything wrong.
 
WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, what a bunch of fricken crybabies. No one knows nothing about the picture and yet someone comes on here and assumes something and everyone has to start crying. You guys give me your address's and ill send you some more panties cause yours are all bunched up and probaly got stains on em.
 
Bulzeye,
Perhaps the reason people reacted like they did to the picture of the ATV shed hunting is they are sick and tired of lazy jack-asses tearing up public lands. Yes it DOES IMPLY that they rode the quad cross country to find them, whether or not they actually did.
BCBOY,
I dont know much about the impact horses are having up in Canada, but down here horses are about the most ecologically sound method of travel besides boot leather. One would think that their ecological footprint would be simular to all the moose you guys have up there.
IMHO there is NO excuse for the idiots that tear up public lands just because they feel that it is their right to do what the hell they want to, and theres no way in hell their lazy butt is going to get up at 5 AM just to hike the five miles into "THEIR" honey hole and be there at first light. Now if it is private land and they have the landowners permission then fine, but a landowner that lets people tear up his place must have a real crappy piece of land. Just my 2 cents.
ismith
 
You are dead wrong ismith!!! It does not imply they used there quads to collect the antlers. You (and others) came up with that on your own. Yes lots of folks are breaking the laws on there quads, but to assume that just because someone has antlers straped to there quad that they rode cross country to pick them up is dead wrong. You are accusing these people when you have no proof to back it up! If you weren't there, or don't have proof then please stop making unfounded accusations! You may also want to consider appoligizing to those in the picture for your poor judgement.
 
Weather or not those atvs played a role in locating and gathering those antlers, I dont know.
I do know (TO ME) the photograph is in poor taste, just as a photograph of a nice buck in the back of a vehicle is.
Implications aside, I myself prefer the "as they lay" pics.

life IS good
 
Lesson learned for the fellers that shared their photos I guess. I doubt they will make the same mistake again and I don't mean next time they'll leave the 4 wheeler out of the picture either. They just won't send anymore pictures in!

I can't imagine the awesome pictures we would see posted on this site if people could just quit picking things apart...

Good job guys and thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

NvrEnuf
 
Bulzeye,
Why wouldnt they use their ATV's to collect the sheds? They are obviously parked OFF ROAD. When someone posts pictures of ATV's piled high with sheds, parked off road, you can bet your ass it implies that they used the machines to collect them. Now I dont know the circumstances this picture was taken in, yet I really dont feel that I owe anyone an appology. This picture is quite tastless in my opinion and thats exactly what my response to that picture is, my opinion. If you dont like that, well I dont know what to tell ya. Send me some vulgar P.M.'s if you like, call me names, whatever.
ismith
 
Yeah right! They packed all those antlers out on their back before walking to their wheelers to unload 10 times. Bull Shiz!! I say we request the picture removed and the guys who sent it send their true story. I agree that the picture does imply that they rode their machines for some of the bones. Bad Taste pic, get rid of it. Show a pic of bones on our back or the ground, not on sagebrush rippin quads!!
 
Just my two cents. Of all the pictures to put on there, that was chosen over girls in bikini tops holding bones???????? Geezus, that would have been a no brainer to me:)
 
I agree that we are making assumptions, but from the evidence we see in the picture, those assumptions look fairly accurate to me. Like it was said earlier, why would someone hike their butt off back and forth and then pile them on the wheelers for a picture. It just doesn't make sense to me, but I don't think any of our assumptions are too far off based on what we are seeing. If I am wrong, I apologize, but until I hear and see more, I believe in what I see!!!!
 
You guys are crazy. Just because the sheds are stacked on the 4-wheeler means nothing. I have photos in the Shed Gallery that show a 4-wheeler in the background and my kids motorcycle, are you going to accuse me too of tearing up the mountain and riding off-road?

I thought it was cool that these guys found a bunch of sheds, that's why I put it on the home page. I don't assume they did anything wrong.

People like those of you who pick apart every photo are what this site doesn't need. You're welcome to stop using the site because I posted such a photo on the home page. We don't really need you here to pick everything apart anyway.

Brian Latturner
MonsterMuleys.com
 
Kinda an intimidating post when one considers the number of posts you just turned over Founder. }>
If thats the kind of picture you want on your homepage, then by all means keep it there. This is your website after all, so you can do what you please with it.
ismith
 
You might be right. Maybe if some of the dip chit, self appointed MM police decide to leave we might have less posts but at least the ones we have will be worth looking at.

Honestly, what good is going to come from people moaning and groaning about pictures posted on this website that "imply" the "possibility" of improper use of ATV's? If you have a problem with ATV use in your area then do something about it. Turn people in if they're breaking the law, don't just sit and run your boob a$$ mouths everytime you see a picture of an ATV and expect things to patch themselves up. All you're doing is making peole quit posting pictures and ruining Brian's website.

NvrEnuf
 
ismith, How do you know the quads aren't parked at the end of the road, or right off the side of the road? How do you know that the antlers weren't packed out on foot before they were straped to the quad? You are still jumping to conclusions! I don't think your opinion has anything to do with it. The fact is unless you were there or have proof how the antlers were collected anything else is pure speculation, not opinion.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-04-06 AT 03:49PM (MST)[p]I vote to have the offensive 4-wheeler picture REMOVED!!!! Please replace it with the one showing the Cowgirl Rack Hunters!
 
UGAhunter - I was going to put the Cowgirl pic on the home page, but I figured someone who doesn't approve of great looking women with sheds would get on here a belly-ache.
There's always a belly-acher.

Brian Latturner
MonsterMuleys.com
 
Those of you defending the picture probably own ATV's, I don't. So I am a little bias when I see guys on wheelers packing bones. We all know that most of you with ATV's will ride them off the road just a bit, up the ridge of a low vegetation rangeland to not have to walk that extra bit just off the road or something like that. We all know that every one who has taken an ATV out to the hills have dug around a little where they shouldn't. Looking for bones on your ATV may get you up some old roads and trails but it is just too inviting to not take it over there and there when no one is looking.

Again, We really do not know the story of the pic and it is cool if they found all those antlers on a trip, or should we imply that maybe they just posed with a stack they have had for the past years to make it look like they found them?

Lets get the story and it will solve the questions and speculation!! There is just too much controversy in a pic like that when we don't have the story behind it. FOUNDER, thanks for the harsh words!! Of course we pick the photos apart, that is why we look at them. A picture tells a thousand words, doesn't it? Why dont we get the story behind the pic from Kelly Silbernagel who sent it to you. Of course he would not admit that he dug around on an ATV to pick up antlers! And I agree, we vote to have it removed and replaced with the Wives Club photo!! Alot more amazing than some guys ATV loaded with deer antlers.

Headbones

Justin Williams
 
Instead of posting what if's, maybe's, we assume's .......... why don't someone find out who the guys are and what the story is ?

I assume its a known story, and the guys are known as well before being used as the cover pic for a site like this ??
 
I agree with you Headbones! Its not every day you see some good lookin gals with cow ponys picking up monster elk sheds! Seems like all you see anymore is nuckleheads cruising around on wheelers and motorcycles and the mess they leave behind.
ismith
 
LAST EDITED ON May-04-06 AT 05:47PM (MST)[p] I'm with headbones a picture does say a thousand words (like youngbucks post with his friend and the bong or whatever it was). For example the four wheeler picture. Not everyone likes to see a picture with a four wheeler, because it adds an effect of laziness and everyone assumes that they rode them all day to pick up the sheds. Now i'm not saying that they did ride them all day, but it is what most people automatically jump to.
Now on the other side of a four wheeler picture take one of littlefoot's pictures. His pictures have a sense of satisfaction, because of his walking stick, the tired look on his white bearded face, and all the as they lay pictures. His pictures are more of something people can relate too, because he is showing that he is out walking just like everyone else should. A picture with a four wheeler in it just adds a level of speculation. That's what happened here, or people COULD just be getting jealous, I know I do when people post a big set or a pile of antlers.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-04-06 AT 06:55PM (MST)[p]Ironic to see people with their panties in a wad tell other people that they have their panties in a wad! Anyway, when I looked at the picture I did not assume that those people were out on the winter ground using a GPS to find sheds and destroy prime wintering ground. In fact, you can tell that they are in open country that reminds me of the eastern plains of CO. It just reminded me of the story that my buddies told me about. If the fact that a picture of 4 wheelers loaded down with sheds reminded me of a story I was told just a couple of days ago makes you upset then I apologize. Again, in no way shape or form was I trying to imply that these guys that sent the pictures in had done the same thing.

As for the story I was telling you about, I will keep you updated as to what I find out. These brothers I know are tenacious about this kind of stuff and I know that they will follow up with DOW to see what happens.

I guess all I could ask id that if you have a 4 wheeler and like to hunt sheds please be responsible. An antler is not worth the damage that a 4 wheeler can inflict on the deer and the land. I would hope that any responsible shed hunter would agree.

Drum
 
How many of you actually read Saskman's post on this thread. He told ya where the pics come from. Do you know anything about Saskatchewan? Over 90% private agricultural land. It's the centre of the Canadian heartland. Not much for orginal praire grass and not much of that precious sage that you guys are all worried about being destroyed. The majority of the landowners let shed hunters hunt for free and the majority of the sheds are picked up in fields. Quads and sleds are ridden along the fence lines and do no more damage the the farmer's own tractor. If the fields are wet, the farmer will request that the shedhunters walk. If the shedhunters do create a mess, you can bet they will never receive permission from that landowner again.
Not everyone on this site comes from the land of Utard. Do not jump to conclusions when you know nothing about the situation. And no I don't own a quad. One would do me no good as there is no open country where I shed hunt. It is all steep heavy timber.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-04-06 AT 06:17PM (MST)[p]And for those that didn't catch the tongue in cheek remark about the horses, maybe you need to reread my original post and get a sense of humor. ;)
But since you insist that horses do no damage, why are there many environmental groups wanting to ban horses from the backcountry? And what about nonresposible horse users that do not use aproved hay for feed and thus are responsible for the spread of non-native and toxic weeds?
 
NOW WE'VE GOT BC'BADGE'BOY WORRYING ABOUT CERTIFIED FEED!!!

JUDAS PRIEST!!!

DON'T YOU THINK OVER THE LAST 200 YEARS ANYTHING ABLE TO BE TRANSPLANTED TO THE HIGH COUNTRY HAS ALREADY BEEN TRIED???

JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION MR. BADGE,IT'S KNOWN FACT IT ONLY TAKES THE RIGHT TAG TO MAKE THE FEED CERTIFIED,NOT SAYING ITS RIGHT BUT DAMN SURE HAPPENS!!!

DO YOU WORK FOR THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE???

JUST RAZZING YOU BADGE BOY WITH A BIT OF TRUTH!!!

THE ONLY bobcat WITH THE 'I DIDN'T DRAW A DAMN THING' BLUES!!!
 
Well at least we got some info on the pic. I do feel better that it is in Canada that this is happening and not on Federal land in the USA. Info is what we need here and that is good. The pic still makes people upset when they dont know the story. And as far as us Utards, well you wanna-be Americans in the North Land can kiss my antler huntin' butt!!! God Bless the USA!!!!!
 
LAST EDITED ON May-04-06 AT 08:20PM (MST)[p]headbones,
Maybe if you had of read the post early on you would have been informed eh? You fit in great with the rest of the Utards on this site. They never learned to read either. :) Glad you feel better. I guess you need something to feel good about since you boys can't even come close to the size of tine we find up here in the Great White North. :) Maybe you might come close if you're shed hunting some Island Park that has been picked clean by the Park staff already ;)
Just in case you missed some of my finds from this spring. Here are some pics. No ATVS. Public Ground. Steep Nasty Timber. So Kiss My Canuck Lovin' A$$. :) :)
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BC- VERY, VERY impressive sheds, but your "rebuttal" remarks are in VERY poor taste for a so called moderator, provoked or not.
Also, I read ALL of the posts, and even in between the lines. You sure added alot of "so called facts" to the post that had a few lines about where the picture was taken. Go figure.
I dont know of any enviormentalists in Mt trying to keep Fido, my faithful steed out of our back country but an attempt to do so would be comical to say the least.
Gotta go, we got a big pack trip to make this weekend and I still have two bales of hay to sift through to assure an enviormentalist didnt secretly sneek some marajuana in them.

life IS good
 
Shed huntin' is a huge part of my life. In the heat of the moment I reverted to some name calling which was inappropriate. I apologize for the harsh words I should have not let my passion for shed hunting overcome commen sense. It is a bone everyone, a bone.
Please accept my apology, and let us all keep "HIKING" for the dream.

Headbones
 
Lifeisgood,
Again, re-read my original post and catch the tongue in cheek about the horses. But if you insist to argue about how noble and great they are here's some more info for ya. I've hunted with horses a lot and I do know what damage they can do in the backcountry. Trails that are ground deep in the soil that catch the runoff and grind them even deeper. Trees girdled where they have been picketed. This might not happen in your classic idea of sage country but it happens a lot in my area of the country. Many granola crunchers are lobbying to keep them out of the backcountry. That's one of the reasons that the Backcountry Horsemen exists. To lobby and defend their rights against the enviromentalists. Just because your reality where you live might be one way, don't think that that is the only reality, cause it ain't.
As for the info about Sask, just flip through Big Buck magazine will show you sheds beyond your imagination that are picked up in Sask. It'll also tell you about how sheds there are found. I have several Sask freinds that are avid shed hunters and I lived on the Alta/Sask border for a year, so I know what the country is like. It is far far from your idea of driving quads over sage brush in the desert. These are farmer's fields that the sheds are being picked up in. Not my idea of a hard shed hunt compared to my reality here in my home province, but I'm sure many Saskboys could probably kick my butt finding tine on their home tuff.

Headbones,
I was just bustin' your chops dude. Nice to see at least one person man enough to eat a little crow. :)
 
I too, am familiar with the types of damage livestock CAN do. You are certainly right about that. Guess Im old school, and to me thats an acceptable and welcome part of my backcountry experience. Thats what I grew up with. Campsights with corrals maintained and used for 100 years, watering the string at the same spot on the trail my Pops did and his before him, spikes in trees from old campsights and fire rings used again and again.
Horses, Lamas, Ostriches... Quads, Mountain Bikes, Helicopters (That was me sarcasticly clearing my throat after the mention of your beloved Helicopters)Guess we all have a different idea of what takes away from and adds to, a true outdoor, wilderness experience.

life IS good
 
You got that right. My idea and someone else's idea can be 2 completely different things. Don't make one wrong and one right though. Just different. The thing people need to remember on these boards is not everyone lives in your backyard. Tons of people here from all over North America with various differing points of view. Some guys have a very limited point of view and that's all they know. If they see a quad with antlers on it, they then jump to silly conclusions and say stupid $hit like, "Those guys should be in Jail". I betcha those Saskboys have no idea why some of you Yanks hate quads. To them, it's a tool no different from any of the other pieces of machinery they use on the farm everyday. Would there have been an outcry on here if them boys would have used the tractor as their shed hauler instead? That would probably make for some pretty cool pics. A whack of sheds in the bucket of the tractor.
 
I have no idea about the photo but I'm going to give my two cents on ATV?s. For the past six years I've been hitting different sport in Wyoming. Headbones and I have for the past four-five years have been hitting this one spot. We run into ATV tracks all over the place?this is by the way a closed to motorized vehicles area other then main roads. Well we are a good 2-4 miles from any road. We might come out with 10?20 bones each if we find a spot with out ATV tracks. We are covering 8-10 miles in a day of feet busting hiking. So let's say the TARDS on their ATV?s cover 20-30 miles of winter range. I would say they would have around 40-60+ antlers loaded up per ATV. That's a hell of a lot of sheds. So I'm guessing they would have some sweet photos of their ATV loaded high. But these guys know their not suppose to be in here so there is no way in HELL their going to take a photo?.especially post one of them. I'm sure these dumb arses come on MM and read these posts. I'm sure their wife?s and families are the only ones that know they break the law. But their not going to stop until I or any other shed hunter out there gets a number off of their ATV and gets them busted. Until then these cheats aren't going to stop. Ok?you northern boys. I'm talking Wyoming not Canada. I'm sure there is a big hand full of shed hunters on here that have driven off a road on the ATV and picked up a bone?maybe once or a bunch. But your never going to admit that on here. The illegal ATV use on winter range has to stop. If that means new laws to do it?I'm in. Then when that happens your going to get a new hand full of idiots breaking these new laws. I live in Hyrum UT and watch guys breaking laws ever day that I watch the elk from my back porch. You should have seen the idiots sneaking all over Millville face looking for elk shed 1-1 ? months before the May first opening. Maybe I'll call Verl (DWR officer) and have him come over and look through my spotting scope and bust them as they come off the hill. That's too sad about the Book Cliffs and the ATV laws?beautifully country. There ya have it?open your cans up on me. It's the ManM way for those that can't handle an opinion.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-05-06 AT 02:09PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON May-05-06 AT 02:03?PM (MST)

AK,
All I can say is if you know someone is breakin' the law, do something about it and report them. But because a tool (ATV) is used incorrectly in some of your areas, doesn't mean that we can accuse all ATV users as Law Breakers. If one assumes every ATV user needs to go to Jail because of what is going on in your areas, then logically I should expect to have people jumping on me because I use hounds to chase lions. Illegal in several states, but not here. With the same logic, I should be able to jump on those who bait bears because it is illegal here, but not illegal elsewhere. Sounds like good logic eh? If I see a picture of someone I know nothing about, I should be able to slam them every chance I get because, Hell, this is Monster Muleys and I have a right to slam people. :) :) I'm in no way saying you don't have a bad situation going on down there. What I am saying is the whole idea behind this entire thread is a little on the moronic side of things with people jumping to conclusions based on some pics they know nothing about. Not saying you personally were doing that, just saying this thread is doing that.
 
Sounds like alot of you guys need to learn how to spell.....I spell ass-u-me like it is and if you all continue to spell it the same way we will all be a$$es,until you have proof that they broke the law with quads I would not continue to ASSUME ANYTHING.
 
It is just a picture, it would be nice to know the whole story, but it sounds like these guys are legitimate according to the story above mentioned, that this is probably on private land, in the grass covered hills of Sask. Ok with me. We all just need to do our part in keeping our own actions in line with the law and minding the ethics of responsible use of our land we love so much.

BCBOY, you do grow them big up there, and those are some massive bones. I have to admit, you do put some of the coolest pics and great bones to look at than most of us. Keep up the good work, eh!! It looks like you have alot of competition from all those nasty rodents though. They need to find another source of calcium so we humans can enjoy an intact antler to look at?

I think the story of the Home page pic has been told and it should be ok to leave there.
 
I don't think the frustration and anger portrayed through these posts are directed right at this single photo. The picture represents an idea...a technique that many shed hunters find unethical and damaging to the terrain. Most of the shed hunters on this forum are happy to see other poeple's successes, but when you see a picture like this, many shed hunters (asses or not)can't help but point fingers at the machines....wondering if maybe that was the same machine that they had stumbled across its destructive path all weekend. We all know that most ATV owners are responsible and these guys in the photo very well could be responsible shed hunters. It is the photo arrangement with the large stack of antlers and some off-road machines that really sends the impression of a shedhunting method that is illegal thoughout most public land. I guess this is a great site to vent about this very issue since fed, state, and local land management agencies aren't listening. Maybe setting up contact lists of public land managers and posting it on MM may help get better results than fighting amongst ourselves. Go find some bones.
 
BBB: Perfecting put.

I did not state that these guys were breaking the law in my original post. I merely stated that the method that the picture implies was used (sorry guys but i do not see how you could not believe that riding crosscountry was the method used to find those horns) is illegal in most areas that most of the people who frequent this site shedhunt...and that many visitors would therefore find the picture somewhat irritating based solely on that.

The possibility (and hope) that the sheds were collected in a legal manner on private ground is better than if they were illegally collected on public land, i agree. It is just that so many of us have had many encounters with ATV shedhunters in areas that they are not supposed to be that a picture with sheds piled high like that causes a negative reaction...regardless if it was legal or not. I have hiked into ATV track grids everywhere from the sage of Western Wyoming to the PJ's of the Arizona Strip to the Quaky/PJ ridges of South-Central Utah's elk shed grounds to the sage of the Book Cliffs (sorry Bessy i have hit your country too:))...and I am so sick of it. As BBB said, that is what is driving my resentment of that picture...and i would dare say the resentment of many of us that have posted in this thread.

I am happy for the guys who found the horns if they did it legally. I however feel like it is a poor representation of the type of shed hunting that many on this site enjoy...and a great representation of the type of shed hunting that many on this site despise. That is why i thought it was an odd photo to place there.

Nothing personal against the dudes that found those horns in particular.

Peace,

RPinenut
 
Wonder what you guys would think about the practice of shed hunting from a jetboat. Very common practice in Northern BC. Pickin' up moose tine by the boat load. Some guys pick up so much that they pay for their jetboat in one season. That just don't seem fair to me. Those guys should have to travel that 50 miles on foot and pack those sheds out on their backs.

Gawd forbid that some BC Resident posts up pics of a 60 inch Canada Moose that he has killed and packs out on a quad. That might offend some of the southern boys because he obviously rode over sage brush to get his moose out. Meanwhile, the nearest Sage brush is 800 kms to the south.

I say from now on we must ban any MM member who posts up pics with even a hint of a quad in the background, because those images bring ill feelings to many on this site and it is always obvious when a quad is in a picture that the law was broken. Lets start a petition and get this thing done. We'll set it up in the Utard Whinner's and Wannabee's section. :) :)

Headbones,
I've been shed hunting for 25 years and I'd much rather compete with the little fourlegged critters than the 2 legged varity. If I had to deal with the 'competition' that many of you deal with, I'd probably stay home and actually do some yardwork for once. :) :)
 
BADGECANADIANBOY!!!

IT MIGHT BE A WHILE!!!

BUT YOU MIGHT SEE YOUR FAVORITE STOMPING GROUNDS CHANGE BEFORE YOU DIE!!!

WE'VE SEEN THINGS CHANGE HERE BIG TIME!!!

YOU'VE GOT YOUR FAVORITE HUNTING/HIKING/FISHING/ETC PLACES,HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF WITHIN 2 YEARS ALL YOUR FAVORITES WERE DESTROYED???

DON'T TELL ME IT CAN'T HAPPEN,WE'VE SEEN THE DAMAGE FIRST HAND!!!

YOU'VE LIVED BACK IN THE WOODS TO LONG & DON'T THINK IT WILL EVER CHANGE,I GUARANTTEE IN TIME IT WILL CHANGE EVEN IN BC!!!

I DON'T MIND ILLEAGAL ATV'S,MY .50 LOVES THEM!!!

YOU THINK QUADS ARE A GREAT TOOL,WELL THEY ARE WHEN USEWD IN AN ETHICAL MANNER!!!

THE ONLY bobcat NOT CHANGING HIS WAYS,BREAK THE RULES WITH YOUR ATV & FEAR THE FREE TUNE-UP!!!
 
Bobcat,
You are all talk and no bite. You've been rantin' and ravin' on here since you learned to use the Capslock button and you haven't said anything new since then. Time to come up with some new material as you are like a broken record that everyone is sick of hearing. :) :)

I know that things will not change in my areas. Not now, not five years from now, not 100 years from now. You see, it's rather difficult to ride a quad on 60% side slopes that are covered with thick timber. Quads are only used here to drive roads, especially ones that are deactivated for water control reasons. Pretty hard on the ol' 4X4 driving through cross-ditches all the time. The hard-core road hunter will resort to using a quad. But, how does that affect my areas? I'm always hunting the steepest nastiest thickest $hit out there. Most resident hunters think I've lost my mind. :) :)
 
MOST RESIDENT & NON-RESIDENT HUNTERS HAVE FIGURED YOU OUT!!!

YOU'RE DEAD WRONG!!!

AS TIME GOES ON THINGS WILL CHANGE!!!

BY THE WAY,JUST CUZZ YOU GOT A BADGE NOW DOESN'T MEAN YOU'VE GOT TO BE A GASTOPPO!!!

YOU'D BETTER PROTECT YOU THICK NASTY STEEP #####!!!

I'LL QUIT SOUNDING LIKE A BROKEN RECORD AS SOON AS IDIOTS START OBEYING THE LAWS,IT SHOULDN'T BE LONG NOW!!!

THE ONLY bobcat,THE ONLY bobcat,THE ONLY bobcat,THE ONLY bobcat!!!
 
Let's see Bobcat. Hmmm. BC resident hunter numbers at all time lows. 80,000 hunters in a province that is 900,000 sq kms in size, 95% of which is public land. Hmmm, yup, I see changes on the horizon. Every hunter is going to buy a quad and try to keep up to ol' BCBOY. They'll have the ride of their lives as they bail off that logging road into a overgrown cable cutblock. I'm sure they will find the bottom fine. But the quad will be smashed into a zillion pieces. The sad reality is out of all those 80,000 hunters, 99.9% of them are too lazy to get out of their trucks to unload the quad in the first place. :) :)
 
BCBOY!!!

WELL IF YOUR FELLOW HUNTERS ARE THAT LAZY THEY JUST MIGHT COMPETE WITH HUNTERS HERE!!!

YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER!!!

WHEN OPENING DAY OF NOMAD SEASON OPENS THERE ARE 97,000 PERMITEE'S + EACH PERMITEE BRINGS 6 FRIENDS WITH 12 QUADS!!!

I DON'T THINK YOU'VE EVER EXPERIENCED WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT???

YOU'RE LUCKY IF YOU HAVEN'T!!!

JUST THINK,IF EVERY NOOK & CRANNY HAD A SET OF QUAD TRACKS THROUGH YOUR FAVORITE STOMPING GROUNDS,THEN HOW'D YOU FEEL ABOUT LOWLIFE QUADS???

THE ONLY bobcat THINKING MAYBE YOU & YOUR BADGE OUGHT TO COME DOWN HERE & DO SOME DISCIPLINING!!!
 
Actually the concern up here is the lack of hunter recruitment. And if the numbers keep on dropping, maybe my grandkids won't be able to hunt because without numbers there is no voice. The BC Gov just put a bunch of money into this year's budget to see what they can do to get the numbers back up. One of the things they are thinking about is actually easing up on the regs, the dos and don'ts that have caused many to give up and take up golfing instead. So I doubt we'll be seeing a bunch of new quad regs coming down the pipe anytime soon.
I've been doing my part and actually have given up several of my shed hunting areas to some local kids because I see a fire in them and I know they will be pickin' up some big tine in years to come. I look forward to seeing them holding some of that big tine with smiles on their faces. That my friend is what it's all about. Something that sounds like many down in your neck of the woods are missing. Sounds like everyone is in this big competition down there.
 
BCBOY!!!

YOU'RE RIGHT ON THAT ONE!!!

I'D RATHER SEE ONE OF MY KIDS FIND A BONE THAN FOR ME TO FIND 12 BONES!!!

WOULD YOU SAY IDIOTS LOOKING FOR ELK BONE 2 MONTHS BEFORE THEY SHED THEM IS COMPETITION OR STUPIDITY???

IT'S KINDA LIKE:LETS SEE WHO CAN SCREW WHO FIRST DOWN HERE!!!

THE CONSTANT PRESSURE ON OUR HERDS IS FLAT ASS REDICULOUS!!!

SOMETHING YOU'VE NEVER SEEN!!!

NOR WANT TO SEE!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THAT HAS SEEN ALOT OF CHANGES,ALOT OF BAD CHANGES & A COUPLE OF GOOD CHANGES!!!
 
"I've been shed hunting for 25 years and I'd much rather compete with the little fourlegged critters than the 2 legged varity"

I agree, because you can shoot them in the back of the skull when they annoy the crap out of you, well.....legally anyway.
 
>UGAhunter - I was going to
>put the Cowgirl pic on
>the home page, but I
>figured someone who doesn't approve
>of great looking women with
>sheds would get on here
>a belly-ache.
>There's always a belly-acher.
>
>Brian Latturner
>MonsterMuleys.com


I wouldnt belly-ache if you put that pic on the home page, LOL

Drum
 
Actually, no I can't. Them little fuzzy tailed tree rats are protected up here for some gawd unknown reason.
 
I think that picture was in bad taste. Also, there sure are gonna be some calcium deficient critters, cuz it looks like they nabbed every shed in a hundred mile radius. I can understand picking up a shed or two, but what the hell. I'd love to see the look on my wife's face if I brought all those home.
 
Who the hell has this much time to argue.Do you guys not work for a living.These sites are made so that hunters and outdoorsman can bond together and be connected all around the world.It doesn't seem like anyone can say anything on here without someone attacking them for it.If you don't know the situation keep your damn mouth shut.Didn't your mother's ever teach you that if you didn't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all.My two cents.
 
Muzz-
Did you say "keep your damn mouth shut"? Didnt your mother teach you that if you didnt have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all? You must be on break from work.
Its America (at least where I live) Its ok here to have different "opinions" or "ideas" and most importantly to speak your mind about them. For example, you and I have a different "opinion" about what these websights are supposed to be for. I have a hard time "bonding" with somone whos "opinion" is so different from mine. And even a harder time keeping my mouth shut about it (can you tell?)
Gotta go, my welfare check should be in the mail box today.

life IS good
 
How come you ATV whiners arent crying about the new pic on the home page with the kid holding the sheds, I can see part of a ATV in the background, some law must of been broke.
hahahahahahahahahaha.
 
Not necisarily, first we need an accuser, then we need somone to admit to being guilty.

any takers??

life IS good
 
Hey maybe the kid in the picture on the homepage is the guilty one,lets lock him up.Maybe that would please you extremist's.Opinion's are like a** hole's everyone's got em and they all stink.:)
 
Hey, that wasnt nice to say.

Mabey you shouldnt have said anything at all.

life IS good
 
Muzz-

The pleasure was all mine. You had first posted "if you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all" and in turn followed it up with another post saying some "not nice" things.

I am actually much older than 10, but as you can tell by my spelling am only educated at the 5th grade level.

Glad I could help you prove your point.

life IS good
 

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