Stop putting in for Mercer if you're only to trade it

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duck rookie

Discussion Starter · Aug 16, 2016

Currently there are 12 Mercer hunts on the transfer board and based on the posting the vast majority have zero intention of using them, the only intention is for trading fodder. Leave them for those of us who would use them!

BTW, no one is going to trade a Mercer for a deer hunt. They won't trade a Magee or Ottawa either.

I'll climb off my soapbox now.

d r

PS- Yes, I know I have mine on there but it's a Mercer for Mercer trade. It doesn't count so suck it.

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johndeiters

· #2 · Aug 16, 2016

Good post.

Toner07

· #3 · Aug 16, 2016

johnmdeiters said:
Good post.

+1

jjm

· #4 · Aug 16, 2016

Exactly.

MikeBeatty

· #5 · Aug 17, 2016

duck rookie said:
Currently there are 12 Mercer hunts on the transfer board and based on the posting the vast majority have zero intention of using them, the only intention is for trading fodder. Leave them for those of us who would use them!

BTW, no one is going to trade a Mercer for a deer hunt. They won't trade a Magee or Ottawa either.

I'll climb off my soapbox now.

d r

PS- Yes, I know I have mine on there but it's a Mercer for Mercer trade. It doesn't count so suck it.

All not to mention its illegal.... Why it isn't enforced is beyond me.

" It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, sell, trade, or barter any controlled hunting, fishing or trapping permit issued by the division of wildlife. It shall be lawful to exchange any controlled hunting, fishing or trapping permit issued by the division of wildlife with another successful applicant selected for the same controlled hunting, fishing or trapping opportunity. "

http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/1501:31-15-06v1

duck rookie

Discussion Starter · #6 · Aug 17, 2016

It's not illegal if you are trading it permit for permit. It's only illegal if you gain a monetary benefit from the trade.

d r

MikeBeatty

· #7 · Aug 17, 2016

duck rookie said:
It's not illegal if you are trading it permit for permit. It's only illegal if you gain a monetary benefit from the trade.

d r

It clearly says in the Ohio Revised Code as I posted that it is ONLY legal if you are trading for THE SAME HUNT. You cannot trade a Pickeral for a Pipe Creek or a Mercer for a Ravenna.

jason

· #8 · Aug 17, 2016

speaking of that, I got a hunt available to transfer at The Budnick Marsh for a Castalia trout..... let me know, thanks.

PerchMonkey

· #9 · Aug 17, 2016

MikeBeatty said:
It clearly says in the Ohio Revised Code as I posted that it is ONLY legal if you are trading for THE SAME HUNT. You cannot trade a Pickeral for a Pipe Creek or a Mercer for a Ravenna.

It doesn't CLEARLY state anything.

The way it reads that anybody can trade anybody anything as long as its the "same controlled hunting opportunity"

A state controlled hunt is a state controlled hunt. same opportunity

duck rookie

Discussion Starter · #10 · Aug 17, 2016

MikeBeatty said:
It clearly says in the Ohio Revised Code as I posted that it is ONLY legal if you are trading for THE SAME HUNT. You cannot trade a Pickeral for a Pipe Creek or a Mercer for a Ravenna.

This is a spirit of the law-v-the letter of the law issue. Speeding is speeding whether you're 2 over or 20 over either way you're speeding. Now you don't always get a ticket and you don't always get stopped it all falls into discretion. They don't want to see someone selling it on Ebay or Craigslist because whatever animal is being hunted belongs to the people and not to an individual person so it can't be sold.

d r

d r

MikeBeatty

· #11 · Aug 17, 2016

duck rookie said:
This is a spirit of the law-v-the letter of the law issue. Speeding is speeding whether you're 2 over or 20 over either way you're speeding. Now you don't always get a ticket and you don't always get stopped it all falls into discretion. They don't want to see someone selling it on Ebay or Craigslist because whatever animal is being hunted belongs to the people and not to an individual person so it can't be sold.

d r

d r

Speeding is illegal whether you're 2 or 20 over. If an officer decides to give you a ticket for going 2 over, you're getting a ticket. When you go in to court to fight it and challenge, "I've done it a hundred time before and never gotten a ticket", what do you think the judge will say?

No different with trading hunts. The law is the law, the fact that it isn't enforced doesn't make it legal. And if/when you get a knock on your door and a game warden has a screen shot of you trading a hunt on Facebook, don't plan on using "spirit of the law v letter of the law" as a defense.

Fact is, its illegal.

Dan_O

· #12 · Aug 17, 2016

Mike , no one gives a flying _ _ _ _ what you think about trading hunts.

MikeBeatty

· #13 · Aug 17, 2016

Dan_O said:
Mike , no one gives a flying _ _ _ _ what you think about trading hunts.

And now you know how everyone feels about all 3,516 of your posts. Including that last one.

mjmaurer

· #14 · Aug 17, 2016

If they wanted to push it. It should read "EXACT" same hunt. People have been trading them for years and they know it.

These things are so good I quit sending in for them 20 years ago. MJ

theradish

· #15 · Aug 17, 2016

BLAH BLAH BLAH. About 8 or 9 years ago my family drew 2 Magee hunts, so I called the nice guy with glasses at Magee and he refered me to this place called Ohio waterfowlers to transfer the extra hunt. So here i am today trying to transfer a Mercer goose hunt for an earlier date or a prime Plumbrook deer hunt. I can't tell you how many of these hunts Iv'e been on where we never pulled the trigger, but I always had fun, and this awesome Mercer hunt that I have, if it can't be transferred. I'll give it to someone out that way that will use it

MaktheQwk

· #16 · Aug 18, 2016

MikeBeatty said:
And now you know how everyone feels about all 3,516 of your posts. Including that last one.

https://youtu.be/qSNJaJoOMao

Bscha

· #17 · Aug 19, 2016

Actually it clearly states, in a 3rd grade reading level, that you can swap hunts you just cannot trade an individual a magee for an ottawa if said individual has already obtained a magee for example. No double dipping and as previously mentioned no financial gain. But everybody hears something different then tells a buddy who tells another buddy so on and so forth. By the end of nobody knows **** just likes to try spit some regulation read somewhere on some page of some Internet site because the Internet is 100% right...Probably not. Don't see the big deal in swapping hunts. I got a mercer and while I have it listed if it doesn't get swapped I'll use it or give it to someone.

mobilecamo

· #18 · Aug 23, 2016

I will gladly put to use any Mercer permits. Not that the hunting is so great but because the set up is fat man friendly and its got great views of the sunrise

WorldBFreebase

· #19 · Aug 23, 2016

MikeBeatty said:
And now you know how everyone feels about all 3,516 of your posts. Including that last one.

:crylaugh:

Bandseeker

· #20 · Aug 23, 2016

BULLCHIT live here hunt here 40 years work on controlled hunt committee everyday NO legal trading of hunts except it's ignored for revenue purposes but have traded them every year for the greatest Ravenna hunt mark Billy Sammy and the rest of the cleveland never was controlled hunt traders!

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