Hi I am 16 and am trying to get a start in taxidermy but I don't have the cash to spend on furs. I am not looking for hand outs but if any one out there is a traper, I am looking for mink; fox, raccoon, and weasels. Even if somone could just tell me a resonable price so that I don't get taken I would realy apreaciate it. I would not mind geting a few frozen whole animals to practice skinning. thanks for looking.
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I get mine as road kill since your 16 and could probally drive(LUCKY) go lookin for them where I live theres plenty of roadkill to practice on.
not to sound like a jerk, but if you cant afford the good stuff that trappers make there livelihood on, then maybe you should be watching the ditches and roads for road kill test animals. This is the best material to start with while starting out. If you scrap one out, and you will, you have lost nothing. You can even practice skinning a flat cat. The local dog pound may have a pretend coyote to practice on. I am sure someone here may have some blemished hides for you, if not, early Saturday mornings are the best road hunting days of the week due to the Friday night party people cruising out late.
pick up road kill animals. Just make sure you check the laws.
Why would it be illegal,its dead and it isnt comin back to life any time soon so it might as well be mounted... by the way do you know if its illegal in Texas cause if it is then I have been breakin abunch of laws lately(LOL)
I think it is illegal in Texas, I know you cant pick up a deer and I think it goes for everything...Why?...I dont know...maybe they think the buzzards would starve to death.
The state owns every animal that is not privately owned.
thanks for all the help and if any one has an old road killed animal they are luky I have been looking a whole year and I have only found a squirrel and one gray fox lukily the fox was perfect and now he is a center piece but other than that I have nothing.
This stinks Ill ask my teacher for more info on it (she used to work for the fish and wildlife department).
its illegal here in r.i. and conn.
its legal to pick up roadkill if u have a trappers license, here in Massachusetts
Is is legal to collect roadkill?!?! Gosh, what is this world coming to? Wonder how much a permit costs!?
The reason behind the madness of these laws is the pretense that the animals being killed are running around in circles in the road frothing at the mouth or otherwise acting like they could be sick or diseased. The state officials feel it is not good practice to pick these up for that reason alone not to mention if they are killed out of their respective seasons it is probably illegal to possess them for transport.
We all know that most of these animals are killed as they are either out for a walk or hungry for a burger and fries or possibly chasing some tail.
Yet another reason may be that it can be in cases difficult to distinguish a road kill from death by another means. Which is to say that your 50 "road kill" specimens could have died by other means. It really wouldn't be fair to trappers who are licensed and have limited numbers of tags many times, if Joe Blow can collect his free "road kill" specimens annually. I make sure I call the warden before I pick something up.
How can you prove it was a roadkill. Sometimes the rules don't seem fair, but they are in place to prevent poaching.
They even have these rules for deer. Unless the deer was hit by a car and you are there to claim it shortly after the accident, a deer that dies by any means other than hunting must be left alone.
I shot a nice buck on the last day of our gun season a few years back and couldn't find it that afternoon. Since it was the last day, I had until 10 am the next day to find it or I had to leave it lay. I found it at 1 pm.....and by law I had to leave it lay.
Heck, even if you are just walking through the woods and find a dead deer, or a skeleton, etc.....you have to leave it lay.