2 technical questions

[radke22]

If you are a taxidermist are you only allowed to have "your" limit in the freezer, or can you have 15 ducks that you shot and plan to mount?

Suppose you shoot 2 drake canvasbacks on one weekend, bring them to your taxidermist on monday, shoot another 2 the folloing weekend and plan on having a dead mount with 4 canvasbacks. The game warden checks in on your taxidermist and sees your name on all 4, are you legal?

[joe_stack20]

I would have to say "Yes" because they are not in "YOUR" possesion, they are at a business that accompanies the outdoorsman, if you legally shot the CANS, you have done everything right and there should be no discrepancies...This is my opinion, not the law!! Hope it helps

[TV BOY]

It wouldn't suprise me that the DNR would consider your mounted birds "in possesion" ! and limit you to never shooting a can again

[Guest]

This is fact here guys....

game at the taxidermist is part of your possesion limit until the time the taxidermist begins to process(for lack of better word) your catch..

So if you have a 10 lb walleye at the taxidermist.. it is part of your possesion limit until the taxidermist puts a knife to it.. doesnt matter if its the following day, or a year later.. If the game is sitting whole in a freezer, you still possess(how is that word spelled?) that fish... It is the exact same if you had fish stored at a family members/friends/resort with fillets with your name on it.. all part of your personal possesion limit.

[hobbydog]

It has to be tagged with your info when at the taxi place so it is in your possesion. There are loopholes though. Gift the ducks to your wife or brother or whatever and then have them bring them to the taxidermist. Is that ethical? Some would say no but you are looking for legalities not ethics.

[MedicDan]

I'm a licensed Taxidermist- Heres how it works, you keep your info on the birds, somewhere on it, and as long as, either the ones you've eaten, stuffes, .... what ever just for the entire season your not suppose to go over it, but some people do, then it just becomes hard for us, because at the end of each year, we have to turn all of our records in to the US fish and wildlife service, and they are pretty picky about the records. HINT.. Didn't hear it from me- don't need records if you do it yourself. That doesn't meen I promote overkill, though.

[Guest]

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It has to be tagged with your info when at the taxi place so it is in your possesion. There are loopholes though. Gift the ducks to your wife or brother or whatever and then have them bring them to the taxidermist. Is that ethical? Some would say no but you are looking for legalities not ethics.

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That is possible as long as your wife is licensed, HIP certified, and has stamps.

They are very protectful over waterfowl.

[Tom Wilson]

Sorry Man--incorrect

A person does not have to be licensed in any way to receive a gift of wild game.

[bigyooper]

Crasher, how much do you charge to do a duck?

[FOOT]

Tom, you are 100% correct.

I learned first hand from a Federal warden in ND. We stopped in to a small town meat market to pick up some steaks for a grilling party while duck hunting a few years back. The owner of the market asked if we have ever tried jerky or sticks made of duck. We hadn't and were curious. He stated we could bring in a limit, he would clean them and process them and then we could gift them to a relative and hunt for more and then they didn't count toward our limit.

We were all a bit leary of this but there happened to be a warden in the market checking to make sure he was on the up and up and he said we could gift them to anyone and they do not need a license.

We tried some that year and it was pretty good but it just didn't seem right. We routinely eat 4-5 meals of duck in ND and bring back a limit for meals back home. This give us plenty of hunting and ducks, no need to be greedy.

[MedicDan]

Right now, I don't do ducks, I am kind of out of things right now.