I hit a good sized mink on my way home last night. I stop and looked at it and it had no fur damage as I clipped it's head. Is it legal for me to take this thing to the taxidermist or do I need a fur harvestors license? I stuck it in a snow bank and covered it up in hopes to preserve it until this afternoon if I can.
SaskGuy
Active Member
Skin it out and throw it in the freezer or just throw it in the freezer. If you have to find someone with a trapper's licence then do it, that's what guys without trappers licences do here if they stumble on something they can't possess. I know it is beding the rules a bit but some rules are stupid. f course, here everyone knows somebody with a trappers licence may be different there. By the way, greay migs on that avatar.
HOWATTANDHAWKEN
PMA Member
County sheriff's carry salvage tags also. If you happen to know one or can catch one in agood mood he might oblige you with a salvage tag. I got a salvage tag from a Polk county sheriff for a buck last year. Might be worth a shot.
DNR said they won't do anything, guess thats what I get for being honest. Called my nephew who is a deputy and the tags they carry are just deer tags.
Our season for mink is Nov. 5 through Jan 31 so our season is closed and you need a special permit to possess fur out of season. I did think of just throwing it in a big ziplock bag and throw it in the deep freeze until next year but I just can't bring myself to do it. Kind of be like shooting a big buck a couple days before season opens and then tagging it opening day.
Our season for mink is Nov. 5 through Jan 31 so our season is closed and you need a special permit to possess fur out of season. I did think of just throwing it in a big ziplock bag and throw it in the deep freeze until next year but I just can't bring myself to do it. Kind of be like shooting a big buck a couple days before season opens and then tagging it opening day.
horkeymike
Member
Go get it and put it in the freezer until next year, if they give you any crap tell them you found it dead in the back yard. What conservation officer did you talk to?
LoessHillsArcher
PMA Member
go get it and put it in the freezer, I would just get it mounted or like someone else said, find a buddy with a fur trappers permit and have them turn it in to the taxidermist. Would rather see that than it be wasted!
HOWATTANDHAWKEN
PMA Member
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Kind of be like shooting a big buck a couple days before season opens and then tagging it opening day.
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Except you didn't shoot the mink. It was run over. Get the mink .
Kind of be like shooting a big buck a couple days before season opens and then tagging it opening day.
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Except you didn't shoot the mink. It was run over. Get the mink .
SaskGuy
Active Member
I too don't consider it anythig like shooting a buck before the season. I don't condone poaching at all but hitting something with a vehicle is far from poaching so I don't think I'm without morals.
You've got 2 choices.......let it lay in the ditch and be wasted or take it home, throw it in the freezer and find a way to get it mounted. I wouldn't see anything wrong with taking it home and finding a legal way to have it stuffed. JMO however.
You've got 2 choices.......let it lay in the ditch and be wasted or take it home, throw it in the freezer and find a way to get it mounted. I wouldn't see anything wrong with taking it home and finding a legal way to have it stuffed. JMO however.
Leave it lay, if you pick it up, you are breaking the law. You did all you can do, you called he DNR, they told you they could do nothing to help you, so that is pretty much the final say. If you want a mounted mink, get yourself a few trapping books, some traps, and buy a license and go trap yourself one next fall/winter, you will feel much better about the whole episode, and you won't break any laws in doing so.