Dan's YCS Project Redux - Some Pix

[Bill Martino]

Nice stuff and thanks.

 

[Bri in Chi]

My checkerboard YCS came about an hour ago. Wow, what a beauty! Sher did a great job on this one. The blade finish is the best I've seen yet from HI. No polished-over scratches. The inlays are well done, the sheath fits. And hey, a real convex edge! Sharp at that! Do I sound happy?
Many thanks to Yvsa, Dan and Uncle Bill!

 

[Yvsa]

Thanks to all for the great praise. I am highly honored by you all!

3 years and 3 months! That is just plain ludicrous. What about in the case of natural death or roadkill?

All Birds of Prey are supposed to be turned into the Wildlife Conservatory for cataloging and disbursment to the ndns requesting feathers no matter how they died.
It would be ludicrous but there's always a lot of ndns requesting feathers.
Sometimes feathers alone are sent out but when I got my Eagle I could've ate it if it had been fresh enough as I got the whole damned Bird!
It was shipped encased in plastic bag which was then packed in ice. Sometimes they birds are shipped in dry ice, or so I've heard.

What if you can across a dead eagle on the road or in the woods? Would it be illegal to take a feather off the dead bird?

Leave it or call a Ranger for pickup. Yep, it's illegal.

As long as I didn't "accidentally" shoot the eagle while out duck hunting and could prove it was already dead, why should they care?

Mainly because they just came off the endangered list and the Feds like to keep track of how many there are. In the case of Hawks and other raptors it's because they want to know who they have sent them too so as too keep track of who has legal feathers.

Like I said, laws and more laws...

Tnx.

Norm

Yep.

 

[Bri in Chi]

Holly sh*t, I once found a red tailed hawk tail feather and had it stuck in my truck sun visor for years. You mean I could have been sent to Leavenworth if a cop stopped me for something? What about the little yellow warbler feather in my fishin' hat? That's probably illegal because it's from a migratory bird.

 

[Yvsa]

Holly sh*t, I once found a red tailed hawk tail feather and had it stuck in my truck sun visor for years. You mean I could have been sent to Leavenworth if a cop stopped me for something?

Yep.
An Apache in Arizona was busted and jailed for having an illegal red tail feather he had just picked up but methinks that was more over hassleing the ndn than the illegal feather. In some states us ndns are still hassled a lot by LEOs.

What about the little yellow warbler feather in my fishin' hat? That's probably illegal because it's from a migratory bird.

Yep.
There was a lady that made President Clinton a dreamcatcher and in advertently put an Eagle feather that the bird had dropped in their backyard on it.
Hell of a ruckus over that deal. Her husband had all his migratory duck feathers confiscated. Never did learn how the story wound up though.
I did hear theat he had gotten his duck feathers back but don't know if it was true or not.
A friend once told me that at a Rendevous in Kansas, where pheasant hunting is legal, another friend once threw a blanket she had sewn several hundred pheasant feathers on back into their tent because a Ranger was on the grounds and a blanket thusly decorated was illegal.
Some states have passed laws against the sale or possesion of bear claws and other differs animal parts I have heard, don't know how true the stories I have heard are, but wouldn't put it past the states or legislatures or doubt them.
Better to be safe than sorry in this day and age.

 

[mPisi]

Got my checkerboard YCS today, looks fantastic. Very nice shape and balance, blade is thinner than I remembered, I'll have to compare it to my other ones.

Sadly no Sarge hunter included in the package, I'm not sure if I missed out on this shipment or not, as nothing has showed up at home yet either.