Need fire power.

I was shed hunting with my 2 labs, which I do just about every weekend in the spring here in Colorado.  One has been shed hunting for 6 years and my youngest for 2 years.  In March I was ticketed on a State Wildlife area for having a dog off leash.  The regulations say that a dog must be on leash unless it is 1. Actively hunting 2.Training a dog for hunting 3.Dog participating in a designated field trial course.  The officer said that the regulation does not allow for shed hunting with dogs off leash and was intended for bird or lion hunting dogs.  Except nowhere in the regulations does it call out specifics on what type of hunting is allowed and there is no definition of what they consider hunting to be.  As all of you on this forum are probably like me and consider our dogs hunting when they are looking for sheds.  I am taking this to trial and would like any experiences or suggestions on how I shall win this case.  I'm fighting this for our sport of shed hunting with our best friends for the good of everyone on this site. 

You have my support and I hope it goes good for you. I would also post this topic in the shed hunting forum on some other websites as well. Some websites have lawyers on them.  Monstermuleys.com, Muleymadness.com, shedhunters.org and I'm sure there are plenty of others. fatrooster.

Thank you for your support and suggestion of other sites.  I will keep you all posted.

I have offered our support for Andrew and will help any way we can to see that the ticket is dismissed.  Has anyone else had a similar problem and if so what was the outcome?  Amy

berry_andy, I made a mistake, shedhunters.org should have been shedantlers.org. They also have a hunting dog forum and is a website all about antlers. fatrooster.

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Originally posted by berry_andy

Thank you for your support and suggestion of other sites.  I will keep you all posted.

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I'm pulling for you. As just learnng this new sport thru Roger S. I hope that all goes well for you.

Here in Nebraska we cannot run dogs on State Grounds when it's not hunting season. Rules are rules.

I fell this will be a tuff road to haul since there's lots of people unaware of shed hunting.

You're to be commended on taking this on and please update as soon as you get started.

I'm pretty close to a game warden in my area and will ask him his input just as soon as I see him.

If he has anything to say I'll post again.  Good luck  Jack's dad