Found it during trapping season. Made a report to the warden and he issued me a salvage permit.

Awesome.

Cool!

Cool, I can’t believe you were allowed to Keep it , They all go to State Auction, Congratulations!!

Allowed?

Here in Georgia or Alabama you just take it home with you. No need to ask anyone for permission.

You have bighorns in Georgia and Alabama?

That's news to me.

Cool! What are your plans for it?

Very nice find. I plan on finding one someday, wasn’t aware of any procedure to follow. Do they Stamp it or anything? Seems like it’s different rules if you find one in the Lake Mead Recreation Area.

You're a lucky trapper. It will make a great conversation piece.

Looks like it died just this past winter?????

I have a handful of them. I'm thinking of some creative way to display them all.

They don't stamp it or "plug" it. They will take photos and those photos are on your salvage permit. I don't know the rules on the LMRA but NDOW has jurisdiction for management of Nevada's wildlife so I don't know why the rules would be different, but that's just my off the cuff response.

It has been dead at least a year (the skeletal remains are all bleached white). I think you are right about the winter part. The rings on its horns (aka annuli) show when horn growth slows (the dark rings, representing winter), with the larger, broader areas representing summer when horn growth occurs. If you look close, the dark ring closest to the base of its horns indicates it was still in this slow growth period when it died, so I'd say probably toward the end of last winter.

So how old do you think it was?

I think he's 7 or 7.5 years old.

Cool you get to keep it they would be swooping in to claim it here if I did that.

When I opened this thread...I was expecting Tie Dyied Tee Shirt and Long haired hippie freak..in a van

With Don Henley singing Boys of Summer in the background . . . .

Awesome find. Glad they let u keep them

If we did we definitely would not need permission as non natives are fair game at any time dead or alive.

But other than federal listed species such as raptors bones and antlers are free for the taking.

Do you have to Call before you could actually touch it ? I heard Out West they all have GPS Units.