Game laws that might mess you up.

[CMF]

There trying to keep people from using 1 set of antlers from stashing the meat then shooting females.

If one person in camp shoots a buck/ bull etc
Then takes the meat home/processer.
Then others could shoot females and claim the meat goes with the antlers.

I mean it's possible, but outlaws are going to outlaw regardless. I've hunted CO 4 different years, a couple of those seasons we were there 3- 4 weeks. The only warden I saw, I actually stopped to talk to for information. You could just as easy just load up cow meat and roll out and make it home 99% of the time.
You could actually do the same with the nuts, they only need to be attached on a piece of meat, just move that piece with the antlers.

Has this historically been enough of a issue to have a regulation addressing it? And, if the EOS regulation were tossed, would there suddenly be rampant abuse of this.
Seems that in the modern age, you could easily require photographic documentation of an animal, antlers and sex or, if you choose, physical EOS. Either way, there is easy proof that the animal you killed is the animal you claim to have killed.

Nothing would change if the reg was tossed.

I think it probably is enough of an issue. The meat processor I use told me a story of a guy who brought in two quarters or a cow and two quarters of a bull.

He had shot a big bull on a cow tag and tried to pass them off as one animal.

I would like pictures to be sufficient, but it would be pretty easy to shoot multiple animals and only have pictures of one of them.

The eos law would not prevent this. One would only need to transport half or 3/4 of the cow to home or hotel or wherever they are staying. Then, return to the field with a bag of cow with eos attached and pack out a few bags of deboned bull

And the states that don't require EOS run rampant with this type of regulation violations?

I doubt it. It would be interesting if there were some kind of data on it.
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[LongWayAround]

Part of that story I didn't include was the butcher stating he knew it was whack because of the size difference.

But sure... There's probably guys packing quarters in and out repeatedly so they can reuse the same EOS.

It's pretty easy to just follow the rules if you're not so innovative l guess.