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Offline loefflerchuck

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Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« on: February 12, 2015, 10:05:37 pm »
I heard that for the first time they allowed crow to be shot in Utah. I know everything is illegal in California, but is it now legal to use crow feathers on arrows elsewhere?
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2015, 10:51:50 pm »
There is a crow season like dove season but I still think it falls under the Migratory Game Act.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2015, 11:06:45 pm »
Interesting question. I'll call dwr tomorrow and let you know Chuck.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2015, 10:35:49 am »
Crows, magpies, coyotes... open season year round. Ravens and seagulls... off limits.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2015, 11:32:04 am »
Quote from: mullet on February 12, 2015, 10:51:50 pm
There is a crow season like dove season but I still think it falls under the Migratory Game Act.

Im not sure they migrate Eddie? Ours stay put year round.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2015, 11:49:44 am »
That was the big fight here Chris. They are federally protected, yet Utah had the first season for them this last fall, and again in January. They only had 2 reports of crows being taken during the first season.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2015, 11:52:50 am »
We have gobs of them and can shoot them, I believe, 10 months out of the year.
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Offline Blitzkrieg721

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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2015, 12:09:29 pm »
Yea pretty much open season on them here in Ohio...cant imagine it being an issue on something you can legally harvest..
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2015, 03:10:06 pm »
Thanks everyone. Mullet I think your right. Probably pretty lax unless you try to sell them.
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Offline Hrothgar

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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2015, 06:24:20 am »
Legal to hunt in Missouri too, November through March--as many as you can.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2015, 07:07:58 am »
Technically, although crows are a migratory bird, they are not considered a migratory game bird. Each state can set its own rules for killing/hunting crows. Its also legal to possess, but not sell or trade the feathers.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2015, 09:55:03 am »
From what a Federal officer told me was they were put under the Migratory Game Act in a deal with Mexico to help protect Dove. I guess they tightened regulations in Mexico shooting dove if the US would regulate crows?
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2015, 09:58:44 am »
Crows are the vector species for West Nile Virus. I don't want to have anything to do with them.
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Offline Chief RID

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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2015, 05:13:26 pm »
We made crow a game bird at Mexico's request. They treat doves as a pest, we know crows are a pest. Because of crows being regulated here you have to treat them as game. No sale.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2015, 06:31:39 pm »
There you go, I new it was something like that. Thanks, Chief.

Adam, we don't have a choice down here, plenty of crows at the garbage dump and a lot more mosquito's then crows.
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