Where we hunt near Brownwood, we always have to quarter our deer for the trip home. My friends and I are having quite the ongoing battle as to where the tag should be attached. We have always wired the tag to the antlers of an unskinned head of a buck deer and attached via wire punched through the ear of an unskinned doe head that travels with the cooler to provide proof of sex. The outdoor annual states per the following that the tag must be attached to the carcass when the animal is quartered and on ice...
Where to Attach Tag to Deer or Turkey
The hunting license tag may be attached anywhere on a deer or turkey so that it is not damaged, defaced, or lost in transporting or handling. For deer and turkey, the appropriate tag or applicable permit must remain attached to the deer or turkey until the deer or turkey reaches its final destination and is finally processed. If the animal is a deer and the head is severed from the carcass (body), then the appropriate tag and any applicable permits must remain attached to the carcass. See proof of sex in the section below on Processing Carcass in Camp. If the head does not accompany the carcass, then the head must be accompanied by a Wildlife Resource Document (WRD).
It then states that the carcass is defined as...
A quartered carcass is:
Not more than 2 forequarters, leg portion (down to the knee) attached to the shoulder blade;
2 hindquarters (leg bones down to the hock must remain attached); and
2 backstraps/trimmings from neck and rib cage (the boned-out neck and rib cage may be discarded).
So, taken literally, this means that the tag is to be attached somehow to the meat in the cooler??
Where to Attach Tag to Deer or Turkey
The hunting license tag may be attached anywhere on a deer or turkey so that it is not damaged, defaced, or lost in transporting or handling. For deer and turkey, the appropriate tag or applicable permit must remain attached to the deer or turkey until the deer or turkey reaches its final destination and is finally processed. If the animal is a deer and the head is severed from the carcass (body), then the appropriate tag and any applicable permits must remain attached to the carcass. See proof of sex in the section below on Processing Carcass in Camp. If the head does not accompany the carcass, then the head must be accompanied by a Wildlife Resource Document (WRD).
It then states that the carcass is defined as...
A quartered carcass is:
Not more than 2 forequarters, leg portion (down to the knee) attached to the shoulder blade;
2 hindquarters (leg bones down to the hock must remain attached); and
2 backstraps/trimmings from neck and rib cage (the boned-out neck and rib cage may be discarded).
So, taken literally, this means that the tag is to be attached somehow to the meat in the cooler??
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