Embarrassing newbie question

[cshore93]

First hunt out west and I'm not sure about what happens after you fill your tag.

Let's say I fill my tag and attach it to the carcass and get it back to the truck. Do I then take it to a game check-in station closest to me or what?

I've only hunted whitetail in the Midwest.

 

[Felix40]

There are a few things that have to be checked in. Usually animals with quotas like bears. For the most part you just take it home, cut it up, and eat it.

 

[cshore93]

There are a few things that have to be checked in. Usually animals with quotas like bears. For the most part you just take it home, cut it up, and eat it.

Awesome. So after it is all in the truck I can just head home? Unless of course a warden stops me and wants to check it.

 

[durangobrad]

Awesome. So after it is all in the truck I can just head home? Unless of course a warden stops me and wants to check it.

Yup, thats it.

 

[W.D. Crawford]

Awesome. So after it is all in the truck I can just head home? Unless of course a warden stops me and wants to check it.

Exactly! And in Colorado keep the evidence of sex naturally attached.

 

[cshore93]

Thanks guys!

 

[bowtech3dhunter]

In Idaho they do have mandatory check stations on some of the main highways. Hunters are suppose to check in if they have bagged anything.

 

[cshore93]

In Idaho they do have mandatory check stations on some of the main highways. Hunters are suppose to check in if they have bagged anything.

I'll be in Colorado.

 

[Shrek]

Evidence of sex needs to remain naturally attached to the largest piece of the carcass along with the tag. Tag doesn't go on the antlers. Say you take a ham with the nut sack attached on the first load. The tag needs to stay with that piece at the truck when you head back to get another load and not go with you. It needs to stay together until you process the meat for the freezer. Many assume that the tag goes on the antlers which it does not in Colorado.

 

[goodgrouper]

Same in MT tag stays with the largest portion of meat and must have naturally attached proof of sex. Our highway check stations require you stop weather you harvested or not.

 

[michaelc10]

Same in MT tag stays with the largest portion of meat and must have naturally attached proof of sex. Our highway check stations require you stop weather you harvested or not.

In Colorado , Must have evidence of sex natural attached , As well as make sure once your animal is down to fill out license. Punch appropriate month day and sex on license and sign, then attach to carcass before packing out. Keep other half of tag with you till meat is dropped off at processor or till you get home. Once meat is cut up , wrapped and processed. Evidence of sex no longer has to be attached. Good Luck !

 

[Craig Van Arsdale]

I would recommend you pick up a set of regs and thoroughly read them. Each state is a little different and unfortunately its easy to do something wrong and end up in how water.

 

[xziang]

Evidence of sex needs to remain naturally attached to the largest piece of the carcass along with the tag. Tag doesn't go on the antlers. Say you take a ham with the nut sack attached on the first load. The tag needs to stay with that piece at the truck when you head back to get another load and not go with you. It needs to stay together until you process the meat for the freezer. Many assume that the tag goes on the antlers which it does not in Colorado.

I could be wrong but evidence of sex only needs to be attached to a piece of meat. AKA as I've read someplace have a 2 gallon zip lock bag make sure evidence of sex has some sort of meat on it for identification.

Already researching but I don't believe it needs to be attached to the largest piece of the carcass. (at least not in Colorado)

Edited:
OK per the regs:
EVIDENCE OF SEX IS:
A. BUCK/BULL: Head with antlers or horns attached
to carcass; or testicle, scrotum or penis
attached to carcass.
B. DOE/COW: Head, udder (mammary) or vulva
attached to carcass.
C. BLACK BEAR: Male: testicles or penis.
Female: vulva.
3. Heads detached from carcass are not adequate
evidence of sex.
4. If a carcass is cut in pieces or deboned, evidence
of sex needs to be attached to a quarter or another
major part of carcass. All portions must be transported
together.
5. Evidence of sex is not required if a donation certificate
accompanies less than 20 pounds of meat or
after the carcass is cut into processed meat, wrapped
and frozen, or stored at licensee’s home.

 

[les welch]

Read the regulations, especially considering this is your first hunt. There's a lot different in the western states with 700# animals and the law, then there is in the midwest with deer.

 

[fngTony]

Shrek is spot on. Reason tag goes with ham and nut sack is technically females can grow antlers. A recommendation I got from CPW is before any cutting take a photo of the rack and your tag. Like shrek said first load should be ham with sex and tag, not the head. By chance you may be checked in-between loads and its a lot simpler if the warden doesn't have to hike to the kill sight and your truck. Having evidence of sex completely detached in a ziplok does not count.

 

[xziang]

Having evidence of sex completely detached in a ziplok does not count.

Edited: I thought I saw/or read a thread where it might be into interpretation. Either way just follow the regulations. Be safe and have fun!

Found the thread I was looking for.

Found it: http://www.rokslide.com/forums/meat...ation-carcass.html?highlight=ziplock+evidence

 

[5MilesBack]

Having evidence of sex completely detached in a ziplok does not count.

That's why you attach it to a piece of meat, and then put it in the ziplock. Whatever meat is attached is getting thrown away anyway......no way that meat is getting eaten after rubbing all over a rutting bull's nut sack. If a game officer wants me to waste a "large" chunk of meat instead, then that's on him. But I'd fight any ticket in court because it would be real easy to get a DNA sample from the small chunk of meat or evidence of sex and compare it to the rest of the meat to prove it's the same elk......which is the entire intention of the law to begin with.

I'm not telling others what to do, that's their choice and interpretation of the regs......this is just what I do.

I also won't let a warden dictate which load comes out first. I bring out whatever is easiest for me on that first load because I normally hunt with my daypack........so the head may in fact be the first load out, just like this year. If he wants to hike into the kill sight......that's his choice, not mine. But the tag is with the meat. This year would have been real easy to prove my intent because my bow was still with the meat as well.