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Saving the carcass tag

by Old Jake , Posted to Fishing Buddy on 11/04/2009 11:19 PM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
Old Jake

Joined: 02/18/2008
Location: ND
I was looking over the tagging regulations as I am planning to take a stab at butchering my deer in field this year. I didn't realize that the carcass tag was supposed to be saved until the deer was consumed or March of the following year. I have never done this and I'm just wondering how many of you follow the letter of the regulation? Apparently I should tag the box of venison in freezer although that seems to be a little redundant.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by Sportsman on 11/05/2009 05:19 AM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
Sportsman
Joined: 02/28/2002
Location: ND
The carcass tag is a joke.  The guy who thought this one up is an idiot who had nothing better to do with his time.
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Re: Saving the carcass tag
by 44man on 11/05/2009 06:16 AM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
44man
Joined: 08/15/2006
Location: ND
It's not too difficult to toss the tag in your freezer, is it guys? Each fall when I clean out the freezer for hunting season, I take out the old tags. No biggie.

Re: Saving the carcass tag
by sweeney on 11/05/2009 07:20 AM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
sweeney
Joined: 03/07/2002
Location: ND
what if some of my deer meat goes with me and some of it stays in the folks deep freeze, i to think the carcass tag is a joke. but it sure could set a guy up for a ticket if your not careful i guess.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by bdog on 11/05/2009 07:37 AM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
bdog
Joined: 06/03/2007
Location: ND
I am reading my carcass tag and it says:


Immediately after the anlters or head have been removed from the carcass the carcass tag shall remain with the carcass UNTIL the meat has reached its final place of storage.

I read this to mean that once the meat is in the freezer throw the carcass tag away.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by Farnorth on 11/05/2009 07:39 AM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
Farnorth
Joined: 05/23/2002
Location: ND
Sportsman Said:
The carcass tag is a joke.  The guy who thought this one up is an idiot who had nothing better to do with his time.
Well, we could switch to a Minnesota system where you have to take the deer to a registration station, fill out some paperwork, and have them give you another tag for transportation,

Or, I guess we could go back to where, technically, you had to have the head with the meat at all times until it hit the freezer.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by walleyefan1 on 11/05/2009 08:47 AM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
walleyefan1
Joined: 04/14/2009
Location: ND
bdog Said:
I am reading my carcass tag and it says:


Immediately after the anlters or head have been removed from the carcass the carcass tag shall remain with the carcass UNTIL the meat has reached its final place of storage.

I read this to mean that once the meat is in the freezer throw the carcass tag away.


You are correct. The actual tagging requirements in the proc. are different than what it says on the tag. Pretty gray area right there.

"After the antlers, head, or hide have been removed from the carcass, the carcass tag shall remain with the carcass or processed meat until consumed or until March 31, 2010." That is from the proclamation.

"tag shall remail with the carcass until the meat has reached its final place of storage." thats from the tag.....
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by catmechanic on 11/05/2009 08:57 AM | Reply #7 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
catmechanic
Joined: 06/10/2009
Location: nd
why don't they just say that the game warden is going to sit on top of your freezer and make sure you don't put any illegal meat in there.
Hold my beer while i land this walleye!!
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by tearbear on 11/05/2009 09:54 AM | Reply #8 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
tearbear
Joined: 11/12/2007
Location: ND
Do you guys really think they are going to get a warrant to check your freezer without justifiable cause??? Maybe this is a little overboard, but it's designed to keep things honest!! Throw your tags in a ziplock bag and put them in your freezer or do like I do and throw them in my top drawer of my reloading bench. If for some reason they had to check your freezer, if you can produce tags for every deer I would think you would be fine. This I believe is more so designed for the illegality that some time occurs and gives law enforcement some leverage in those cases! Personally I feel for the wardens out there trying to do their job and only catch a small fraction of the lawbreakers and then have a hell of a time getting a conviction!! Keep it by the law and report those that don't!!!!!! Thanks!!
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by pigsticker on 11/05/2009 09:58 AM | Reply #9 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
pigsticker
Joined: 05/04/2005
Location: ND
what if you hit a game check coming back from deer season with some leftover deer burger or steaks from the previous season (that you butchered) and don't have your carcass tag with you. Would you get bent over a barrel on that one?


This is my BOOMSTICK!!!

Re: Saving the carcass tag
by bdog on 11/05/2009 12:45 PM | Reply #10 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
bdog
Joined: 06/03/2007
Location: ND
You are correct. The actual tagging requirements in the proc. are different than what it says on the tag. Pretty gray area right there.

"After the antlers, head, or hide have been removed from the carcass, the carcass tag shall remain with the carcass or processed meat until consumed or until March 31, 2010." That is from the proclamation.
"tag shall remail with the carcass until the meat has reached its final place of storage." thats from the tag.....
That would make for a joke in court.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by Farnorth on 11/05/2009 12:50 PM | Reply #11 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
Farnorth
Joined: 05/23/2002
Location: ND
The driving force for this system was issues with heads going to a taxidermist and people bringing deer into processors and not having a tag.  I just put my carcass tags on the bench in the garage and any warden can quickly be shown evidence if he wants to look in my freezer.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by Mad Dog on 11/05/2009 12:59 PM | Reply #12 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 01/07/2002
Location: ND
by the way it is up to the warden to give you a ticket if he wants.  I brought back some pheasants that had been in my parents freezer and some deer sausage and stopped at a game stop.  They wrote me a ticket for the pheasants because I did not have a wing or foot.... even though they had been sitting in the freezer for a year and was told that they could write me a ticket as well for the deer sausage because it was not properly bagged and tagged.  We make all our own stuff and if you do that accourding to a couple wardens I can not take it across the state from my parents home to mine.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by catmechanic on 11/05/2009 1:15 PM | Reply #13 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
catmechanic
Joined: 06/10/2009
Location: nd
Mad Dog Said:
by the way it is up to the warden to give you a ticket if he wants.  I brought back some pheasants that had been in my parents freezer and some deer sausage and stopped at a game stop.  They wrote me a ticket for the pheasants because I did not have a wing or foot.... even though they had been sitting in the freezer for a year and was told that they could write me a ticket as well for the deer sausage because it was not properly bagged and tagged.  We make all our own stuff and if you do that accourding to a couple wardens I can not take it across the state from my parents home to mine.
wow, thats crazy. so, you're telling me that when i go snowmobiling out west and i decide that i am going to have a wild game feed one night in our cabin, that i have to have a carcass tag for the deer sausage, feet for my pheasant, and skin on my walleye?

Hold my beer while i land this walleye!!
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by guns4ever on 11/05/2009 2:39 PM | Reply #14 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
guns4ever
Joined: 01/29/2009
Location: ND

That's the way the law reads.  I also believe it states all of last years venison should be gone from your freezer before noon tomorrow.
"Lifes tough pilgrim, and it's even tougher if you're stupid"  --John Wayne
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by whitetailhunter on 11/05/2009 2:56 PM | Reply #15 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
whitetailhunter
Joined: 12/17/2003
Location: ND
guns4ever Said:

That's the way the law reads.  I also believe it states all of last years venison should be gone from your freezer before noon tomorrow.



So we are supposed to just throw away all of last years deer meat???





Re: Saving the carcass tag
by guns4ever on 11/05/2009 3:22 PM | Reply #16 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
guns4ever
Joined: 01/29/2009
Location: ND
whitetailhunter Said:
guns4ever Said:

That's the way the law reads.  I also believe it states all of last years venison should be gone from your freezer before noon tomorrow.



So we are supposed to just throw away all of last years deer meat???
Or eat it I guess.  If you check it out, all your venison from the previous year is suppose to be gone before the opening of the next season.  Don't ask my why.
"Lifes tough pilgrim, and it's even tougher if you're stupid"  --John Wayne
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by normdj on 11/05/2009 3:32 PM | Reply #17 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
normdj
Joined: 11/12/2004
Location: ND
I guess I'm in trouble...I still have plenty of venison sausage left from last year's deer.  I only make sausage every other year, and I make a TON of it.  Heck...I still have steaks, roasts and even a backstrap from 08 left.  But we got shorted a tag this year, so it'll all even out.

I do my own processing, so I think my carcass tags from 2007 and 2008 are still in the glove compartment of my pickup.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by catmechanic on 11/05/2009 4:15 PM | Reply #18 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
catmechanic
Joined: 06/10/2009
Location: nd
i would love for them to try and nail me for that. if they ever did, i would see to it that we went to the game wardens freezer at his home and check it out. that is the most bullshyt thing i have ever heard.
Hold my beer while i land this walleye!!
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by Farnorth on 11/05/2009 4:30 PM | Reply #19 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
Farnorth
Joined: 05/23/2002
Location: ND
catmechanic Said:
i would love for them to try and nail me for that. if they ever did, i would see to it that we went to the game wardens freezer at his home and check it out. that is the most bullshyt thing i have ever heard.

I wouldn't worry about it.  There is not a group of wardens going around getting search warrants to hassle normally law abiding people.

What everybody should be aware of is that when the truly bad actors (poachers) get caught, there is a very long list of infractions that they get cited for and most of them are impossible to wriggle out of.  Usually gets them to deal and then a weak judge gives them a slap on the wrist.

Not a bad system in theory really.  Now, if we could just tighten up the Judge end.
Re: Saving the carcass tag
by labhunter66 on 11/05/2009 4:35 PM | Reply #20 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
labhunter66
Joined: 03/07/2007
Location: ND
guns4ever Said:

That's the way the law reads.  I also believe it states all of last years venison should be gone from your freezer before noon tomorrow.

Where do you find that?  I can't find it anywhere.
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