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.

Comments

how true From david white on Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:47 PM Do things the right way. From Jeffery Thomas on Monday, March 05, 2012 12:58 PM I can't believe anyone would do bad things to hurt these kind of animals i mean their fun to hunt but don't scare them you know what i mean. From Brodie Kelson on Monday, February 20, 2012 10:31 AM I can't believe they would get on snowmobiles and try to make deer and elk and other animals try to drop their antlers. From Brodie on Monday, February 20, 2012 10:29 AM "There are all kinds of dopes out running deer and elk with snowmobiles trying to get them to drop"... This is BS it is a local legend that has caught on to bring this law about. I know of none who have been arrested for it. And I have never seen a video or picture of anybody doing it. From Bradley on Sunday, January 15, 2012 8:31 PM Just live in the peoples reublic of new york city and you will have your eyes opened. No hunting rights allowed, not allowed to own any firearms, unless you are wealthy, well know, slimy politians. Otherswise we regular subjects have the right to be killed by criminals who have the firearms. From Jose on Friday, December 09, 2011 2:44 PM FIGHT IT!!! YELL, PROTEST, ARGUE, WRITE, IGNOR AND CONFRONT. ACTS, STATUES, REGULATION, ORDINANCES ARE NOT LAWS, BUT $$$$$$ MAKING DEVICES. FIGHT...FIGHT...FIGHT!!!!! From Alvin Y Savage on Monday, February 14, 2011 10:43 AM Antler hunting is a great way for me to enjoy the mountains this time of year! From Jeramy Johnson on Sunday, February 13, 2011 6:39 PM Ridiculous! I too live in Utah, not the Soviet Union as my name would have you believe. I remember the day when a young boy could piss outside and not bring down the SWAT, pigs, DCFS, & dept. of homer-land insecurity. Seems to me to be just one more control mechanism and one more reason to take your money at the point of a gun--which is what officer donut will do if you don't have your permit. From Vavilov Lysenko on Tuesday, February 08, 2011 5:25 PM very informitave thank you From Caden Probert on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 3:01 PM Believe it or not, this is a great idea for Utah--people here are crazy about sheds and it's tough to find them anymore. There are all kinds of dopes out running deer and elk with snowmobiles trying to get them to drop horns and stressing them out. I even had some old sheds stolen from my yard, people are so greedy here. IF this keeps the dorks from killing the critters on the winter range--its a start. You all need to get better informed before you start casting stones at the DWR--who's side are you on, NRA? You feel it's necessary to take the anti-government approach to everything without doing your research? From Darren Cox on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 11:43 AM Try living in Massachusetts. You let them get away with that stupid law, you won't believe what they will dream up next! From Spindrift on Monday, October 04, 2010 7:54 PM So if you're just walking in the woods and see a shed, and you don't have a permit, you have to find a computer and take course, get your permit, and then run back and you can pickup the shed. From Roger Mitchell on Saturday, September 18, 2010 9:09 AM 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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