finders keepers, unless there is an agreement before hand.

If you have asked the landowner if you can hunt antlers on the property, then whatever you find is yours. If you have not established that you have permission to take the antlers before you find them, and the landowner says that you can't have them, then they aren't yours to keep. It is up to us as sportsmen to be responsible enough to have permission to be on another person's property, and also to make certain that the owners of the property know full-well what we are going to be doing.

Since you and your buddy are working as a team then it's finders keepers. If the land owner wants sheds brought to him then forget it. Why waste my time unless there is an agreement that I can hunt his land in return for my help look for sheds later.
Those sheds shown in the pic looks like they were worn by a bruiser.

In the laws eyes, sheds would be considered 'lost property' as oppossed to 'mislaid property' or 'treasure trove'.

I would assume the landowners would know of your presence and intention, thus barring them from any entitlement.

That being said, it truly is 'finders are keepers', the finder is technically the one who exerts dominion or control, and has a right against everyone else in the world save the true owner (that would be the land owner who has already relinquished his right).

These rules are in concern to personal property, while others concern game animals specifically (Liesner v. Wine, Keeble v. Hickeringill, very interesting cases indeed). Here your basic doctrine is 'pursuit is not enough', mortally wounding or possessing gives you entitlement. Again, the search is great, but the first man to physically pick up the shed is the owner.

Max Power
1st Year Student
UNL College of Law

I agree with jim in mo. Unless his property was right next to where i hunted then i might go over there and see what i could find.

I agree. Finders keepers Losers weepers.

I think if the buck gets shot you should at least make and effort to give or barter the sheds to the guy who shot it.

and i thuk to it should be finders keepers if some body else wants it they should be out there lookng there self

2poppa, now that's a totaly different thing. If I new an area a big buck roamed if I asked a buddy to help ME find it, then it should be mine. He never new the buck was there, he's just being a friend and helping.

I would say if you find it you keep it, but good relations with the landowners are key to retaining your hunting privileges. So...if it were myself, I would let the landowner know that i was interested in shed hunting and keeping the sheds, secondly I would make sure to have permission for my friend to be accompanying myself on the various tracts, and have permission to be on the other private tracts myself. It would be agreed upon that whoever finds the sheds keeps them, but if I find one side, and he finds the other, whomever has permission to HUNT that property, they retain both sheds. I think that is pretty fair and balanced.

this is a big buck

finders keepers.......or just make a fake set so each one can have a set...but the guy that fond them sould get the real set...

Ifnders keepers I would say unless they have agreed to somehting else before-hand or if they are from a buck both of them are planning to hunt. If so they should both keep them (if possible.)