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road kill feathers?????
cowboy:
I used buzzard on my first set of arra's, picked em up under the roost. Have since gathered enough turkey and goose to get away from that - just didn't like that somebody looking over my shoulder feeling ;D. Don't know how many perfectly good hawks i've passed up on the highway, feels like a crime to not use em..
Pat B:
If the law was lifted, someone(or a bunch of someones) would go out and shoot every raptor they see. Unfortunately, we all pay the price for the action of a few a-holes. I walk in my woods every day. I collect every feather I find and have a jar full on my work table to admire. I don't use them on anything. There are enough legal feathers so we don't have to use the illegal ones. ;) Pat
JW_Halverson:
PatB is right, and that law does not even have to be lifted for the wholesale slaughter of raptors to take place. The is a N. A. reservation in the southwest that I will not name that has historically been a real haven for raptors but now there is not a single eagle, vulture, or hawk to be found. These birds have been extirpated to feed the "culturally significant" desire to possess raptor parts. So much for the concept of living "one with nature".
Pappy:
Seems every thing I like is either illegal,immoral or fatting.Go figure. ;) ;D
Pappy
billy:
Honestly, unless a DNR oficer is also a falconer and is VERY meticulous in his feather ID, there is very little chance that he'll be able to determine the type of bird that your fletching came from. He'd probably be more concerned about the power of your bow or the effectiveness of stone points, not the origin of the feathers on your arrows.
I've seen bald eagle feathers that looked VERY similar to canada goose wing feathers.
As far as raptors being federally protected, I don't know a single person who shoots hawks. But I've seen dozens lying on the side of the road, killed by vehicles. The problem is that untold tens of thousands of different animals are slaughtered on america's roads, left only to rot or become a smeared stain in the asphalt. Deer, birds, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, opossums, otters, beavers, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, ducks, hawks, owls, armadillos, housecats, dogs, kingsnakes, rattlesnakes, cornsnakes, copperheads, ratsnakes, etc..etc...etc.... ad infinitum die EVERY DAMN DAY by cars. That's a list of things I've seen on te road, and that's just off the top of my head.
If it's fresh and I can use its body parts for something, I pick it up. It's such a shame that animals pay with their lives because of our need to make the almighty dollar... a sad but true reality of the cost of our "advanced" society.
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