wetdog you nailed it!!!

To me it sure is not surprising to have the actions you are getting. If the state politically and scientifically does not believe there is any real value with a species I sure can see why bounty hunters would not either. If they are not worth picking up then I guess they stay as they lay.

Bryce

75 years ago coon tails were popular adornments to car radio antennas.

No bird they were not ready, birds and hunters around only 2 shots in 3 days was all we heard and a little machine gun fire but that won't bother them birds. They gobbled on the roost, then on the ground for 45 minutes to an hour they poof they were gone. I went South today and the ones here are still in the larger groups now.

Them coons stunk and the feet were slipping so I laid them on the tailgate then drove them to a place a few miles away that lets me dump carcasses there just a huge tree/wood pile that covers a huge area.

This. Amish and poacher means the same thing around here.

What would cause yo to lump everyone in a pile

Hutterites are passivist they don't even have guns here I doubt they do much poaching. Hard working people you need something made you go see them just fair and honest folks. Worked with them for years and never had a bad deal with them.

Good one!

Got 3 like that last year the must of knew it was coming!

I just saw this and know it will catch on with the guys who didn't get cages

4$ bottle for a 10$ tail good profit in that lol

Amish here all have guns , pacifists but not against shooting animals.

also if they are poaching here they are doing it on their own lands.

Amish and Poacher are not the same word here.

I've been two Rapid City several times since the bounty deal started. Also been motorcycling around the southern Black Hills and to New Castle Wyoming. Haven't seen a road kill with or without a tail. If people are picking them up they must be disposing of the carcasses. It is however not legal to submit road kill for the bounty.
Sad to hear of the east river problems. Money always brings out the worst in people.
Portrays a bad image of trappers when it is probably people who don't even or never have trapped, just wanting to make a quick buck.

What difference does it make if you trap, shoot, or run it over.You killed it you should be eligible for the bounty,no?

the bounty is to remove predators that kill nesting birds. a road kill isn't killing anything, therefore no bounty should be paid on it.

how would they tell the difference by just the tail.??

A dead anything doesn't kill nesting birds or anything else.A coon shot,trapped or run over by your car is one less predator.I don't see any difference in how you kill it that would disqualify it from a bounty.

S.D. may have a Forensic team that checks out suspicious possum tails submitted for bounty.

They check the tail's DNA profile and cross-reference it to where it was submitted from.

If you are a tail smuggler or roadkill wind-shield warrior, you will be busted !!

The whole program cost $50,000,000 in S.D. state game funds

but if just one pheasant chick is saved, It will be worth it !! *********Disclaimer


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I think walking into the GFP office and saying I ran theses down might be a issue with them! LOL Roadkill is dead so it won't count but you can bet they will get turned in, but overall not much on the roads but a few sail gophers today. If the roads get cleaned up that's a bonus as long as they don't dump them to be obvious like they did, just jerks being jerks but that's never ending!