Coues247

Do you have any contact info?

Posted in the turkey forum but not much action over there: I've seen a few mention they couldn't get a hold of him the last few years and he doesn't have a website anymore but anyone confirm if he is still around for turkey taxidermy?

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I've seen a few mention they couldn't get a hold of him the last few years and he doesn't have a website anymore but anyone confirm if he is still around for turkey taxidermy?

From my few minutes of research, Marlin doesnt have exactly dates or information about these guns. If it says black powder, but was made in 1915ish then the internet says its a grade b model. I've seen several online that sold or are for sale for $4-$5k. But without knowing all the details of what it is, the value of yours could be much less. Hopefully it's one of the expensive ones!

I know nothing about these but gunbroker has the price all over the place so hard to tell. Your gun appears to be in good shape and the octagon barrel would make it more valuable I believe. A quick Google search says it may have been manufactured in 1916-1917. How long is the barrel? Does it say for black powder on it or does it say special smokeless steel somewhere on it? https://www.gunbroker.com/collectible-firearms/search?keywords=marlin 1893 32-40

Find a measurer and get some official scores. Not sure what this "master" measurer is you are talking about. Any official scorer can score them. If they were some type of record buck then there would be a panel of scorers that would get together and score it at a later date. https://www.boone-crockett.org/official-measurer-locator https://safariclub.org/find-a-measurer/

Who said they had to be scored by a "master scorer"? Anyone with a little bit of knowledge on scoring can get you a rough score that will be within a couple of inches. If you're wanting to enter it into any record books, you will need to find an official scorer. But if it is just for fun and for the knowledge I'm sure there are plenty of guys on here that live close to you that would love to see them and score them.

While you're technically right, as the chair of Pope and Young you know he is talking about the $40 fee to enter them into the book.

Utah already did away with that or is currently in the process.

That doesn't include the 25 extra on the late hunt, the 25 extra youth doe tags and the 25 extra on the archery hunt. Gotta keep that revenue up somehow. Im sure it killed them to cut 2,800 total deer tags.

5% total doesn't seem severe to me. Several areas got additional tags.

Get them a short term hunting/fishing combo license for $20 a day. That let's them hunt small game and coyotes/bobcats.

I'll assume that means I was unsuccessful. Thanks!

Anyone seeing any updates on their portals for any leftovers?