UT Requires Course, Certificate for Shed Hunting

We're not kidding. If you want to hunt for shed antlers in Utah prior to mid-April, you have to take an online course--and carry the completion certificate with you while looking for antlers. If you don't believe us, click here.

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I see no good reason for it. This course does not take away any excuses, as ignorance is not an excuse. So maybe Joe is right, but there are no doubt plenty of laws on the books with regard to snowmobiles. And if there's no snow and you're on foot, you're definitely going to have a heart attack before a deer or elk. And why do only horn hunters have to take the test? Why not everyone who wants to use the woods during this time, or how about any time? Maybe we should have to take a course on tent camping so as not to adversely impact nature. Or how about a course on how to use public restroom before we can use one? Oh yeah, and then we have a course on taking online courses? From Scott Brown on Saturday, June 19, 2010 2:42 AM I live in Utah and took the test, which is used to let people know how not to disturb the deer and elk during Utah's extreme winters. If people go out and spook these animals when they're already stressed, they might not make it through the winter, which means less animals for hunters. From Joe Leigh on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:34 AM Am I missing something? Anyone who has actually seen the base of shed antlers would never confuse them with antlers cut from an animals head. So I'm unclear about how anyone could fool a UDWS officer unless Utah only hires inexperienced people for the job. From David Lalor on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:15 AM I can see where this law has both pros and cons. I lived over 50 years in Utah and have seen and heard many stories about hunters. I have also known many people who just go hunting for the "horns." Some of those type of people will shoot a trophy and then let the carcase lay and only take the antlers. As a former Utah Hunter Education Instructor, I have read and heard many horror stories from the Utah Department of Wildlife Services telling just such stories. If a person just wants the "horns" then there is a way to dispose of the meat without letting it go to waste. Contact the Utah DWR and they will help you. From Lyndon Gardner on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7:37 PM If is is a course on how to duck and not get shot by CA Hunters, then the class is OK. While in Troy, Idaho, years ago two CA hunters shot and killed a Troy farmer in front of his wife, kids and friends. I have even the farmers paint their cows and horses all different wild colors and some had Bulls Eye targets painted on their sides. The best from Idaho was when two CA hunters tried to pass off a Jersey cow for an Elk...and they even had an Idaho elk tag on it. From Terry Swenson on Monday, March 29, 2010 4:29 PM go team big horns From Ben Mayfield on Monday, March 29, 2010 11:42 AM I live in Utah and don't think it is a bad idea. It takes away the excuse that you didn't know the law if you are collecting with a permit. It's an education tool. It might be a problem if you don't have the internet though. I don't know. -Chris From Chris Wright on Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:51 AM Brad - I am from Utah, and though this is a stupid law we don't want you here, because only an idiot like you would make a remark like that without doing a little research on how hunter freindly Utah really is. So please live up to your word and stay away. Apparently you know nothing about Utah if you think we are on any slippery slope. Check our hunting and guns laws and you will see the Utah government is very much for our rights to hunt and own firearms. From Nathan Hill on Sunday, March 28, 2010 1:40 AM What a joke, just one more reason not to move to Utah! Did Obama himself travel to Utah to lobby for such an anti-outdoors law? Just like they say, its a slippery slope down the path to a nanny state. From Brad on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:26 AM

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