deer transportation question

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FishHog

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This is for Ontario specifically.

So, I'm at the cottage/deer camp for the week and bag a deer early in the week. Weather forcast is very mild, so I butcher the deer and put it in the freezer. Now, a week later I'm heading home with a cooler full of deer meat.

Am I legal? Can't let the meat spoil, so I have to butcher. But transportation seems like an area where I'm vunerable. Last year this is what happened. I kept the head with the tag on it in the back of the truck just in case, but was still concerned that a CO could be in a bad mood and fine me.

Anyone know what the actual law requires?

FishHog
 
Best advice is to ask the government agency directly and get the rules printed out. This way if you are found with the deer and a CO or other officer who does not know the rules gives you grief you can solve your problem.

I have always found that this type of info is best sought from a direct source and not what some one tells you. It avoids the potential for a lot of grief.


For example in Sask. if you transport fish fillets without at least 1" square of skin for identification you are hooped even though any fool with some experience can tell the difference between pike, walleye, perch, or lake trout.
 
Page 52 bottom states: If you are transporting part of a deer, you must know, and be prepared to state: The name of the hunter who sealed the animal. The hunting licence and number and validation tag number under which the animal was sealed. The WMU in which it was taken if requested to do so by a conservation officer.
 
I dunno, I think a picture would suffice! Keeping the head is a little over paranoid, IMHO:D

Lots of guys take their deer to a butcher before they leave deer camp, and all they get is packaged meat back......ie. it shouldn't be a problem.
 
dumbdawg said:
does your butcher keep a record of what was brought in and by who
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I think he butchered it himself, no?

Butcher's generally keep records of the tag numbers. They are under very strict regulation these days (red tape BS) and inspectors can show up at any time.
I think that unless it's a "stamped" farm animal, than it has to be a legit game animal with a tag attached.

(I know my butcher had a book he recorded all the tag numbers)
 
makes sense in a way, but if I put myself in the CO's shoes for a minute.

Whats to say I didn't shoot an antlerless deer, butcher it and call it a small buck?

I guess that was my concern, same as transporting fish, they must still be identifiable. A butchered deer really isn't identifible.

thanks for the input, but I think I might clarify with a CO.

FishHog
 
Wuts to say next summer when I am going to a friends BBQ with a pile of venison, I didn't stop along the way and shoot one????
 
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