Bounty

[Backwoods-Savage]

Just wondering how many remember when there were bounties on various critters. I can remember getting lots of gas money by turning in fox but that is the only critter I ever got bounty for.

[franky]

Last year in Ohio they had out bounties for coyotes, $100 per yote.

[DANIEL MARK ZAPOLSKI]

I Can Remember The Bounty Quite Precisely, I Was Getting **5$** FoR A FoX Beit Male Or Female And The Bounty Was ***20$*** For A Female Coyote And ***15$*** For A Male. And Yes Back In The 60's That Was A Lot Gas Money. To This Day I Still Can't Understand Any Of The D.n.r. Reasoning For Taking Away The Bounties.
And Worse Yet Why They Haven't Implemented Some Kind Of A New Bounty On At Least Those Coyote's. Those Doggies Are Just Depleting The Snow Shoe Hare And Game Birds In All Areas Of The State Now, Not Just The Up Or Nlp.

[lwingwatcher]

IThose Doggies Are Just Depleting The Snow Shoe Hare And Game Birds In All Areas Of The State Now, Not Just The Up Or Nlp.

That is an overstatement of fact if I ever read one.

Yotes are not the bad guys that they are made out to be. They definitely help keep the fox and stray cat population in check. Though not applicable to hares, song dogs are beneficial to game birds cuz fox, cats, and owls/hawks put a heck of a lot bigger dent in the population that yotes do.

To be quite honest, most guys don't appreciate yotes and until you have hunted them....

I wish that hunters had to have a fur harvesters license to shoot them just like with fox...and if everybody wants to shoot them, at least the State would make a little money out of the deal.

[Jumpshootin']

To This Day I Still Can't Understand Any Of The D.n.r. Reasoning For Taking Away The Bounties.

The DNR didn't remove the bounty. Back in the mid-70's the bunny-huggers got a referendum on a state-wide ballot to have the bounty removed. It passed, and that is the law. There is nothing the DNR or the NRC can do about it.

[Rustyaxecamp]

I remember my grandpa talking about bountys on rats here in Midland (1920's). His buddies and him would catch a bunch, turn them in, then watch where they buried them at the dump, dig them up and turn them in again.... :lol:

He said it worked for a while, then they caught on and started "clipping" the ones they turned in.:D

[ENCORE]

I remember my dad talking about the bounty that they had on sparrows. As a kid, he used to catch them and buy his 22 ammunition with the money he received.
I also remember him talking about the $5 bounty on fox. He said that there was a limited population in southern MI, but they were there. He used to shoot them from one of the airplanes that he used to own, until he got caught with the strut covered so he didn't shoot off his own wing.
Back "in the day", as he used to say, you would take a fox in and they would cut off an ear and give you the $5 and the fox back. People used to take the fox back home, lay it in the yard and shoot the side of the head off with a shotgun that had the ear cut off. Then take the fox back in for another $5 bounty.
I guess that the old boys got their gas money any why they could back then. ;)
:dizzy: "old boys"............ I'm at that age now ...

[multibeard]

A good bounty trapper never killed a female.

[lwingwatcher]

Yup...heard plenty of stories...the dens were mini gold mines if ya liked to shovel.