Tagging boned out meat

[AlbertaSheepdog]

Question for you hunters who bone out your meat to save weight when packing it out, how do you deal with the requirement to tag your animal and provide proof of ###?

This is the first season that I am planning on packing out all of my meat, and at the distances we are going obviously boned out is the best idea for my hunting party. I am unsure however of how we are suppose to upkeep the legal requirements, or if in fact we are still required to tag the animal? I'm sure this will sound like a stupid question, but I understand the law to say that the animal must be tagged until it reaches it is butchered... but would boning it be considered butchered?

Thanks all

 

[Paul_T]

http://www.albertaregulations.ca/huntingregs/gameregs.html#tagging

Deboning: a hunter can debone a carcass while in the field and still follow the requirements described above for moose, elk, deer, antelope, bison and non-trophy sheep. It’s not necessary for the full hind quarter of meat to remain intact while still bearing the required evidence, provided that portion of the leg and tendon where the tag is attached also has the evidence of ###, species or class still attached to it.

 

[Superbrad]

Depends on your tag system...... I will use Ontario whitetail as an example..... if I have a doe tag and shoot a doe, I do nothing other than keep my notched tag And antlerless permit with the meat..... of I shoot a buck, I keep an antler with fresh skin on it as well as the ### organs in a small bag along with my cut tag......

 

[Suka]

What we do with the tag/proof of ###/species quarter is seperate the leg at the hip bone that carries the tag, tail(deer) and either the sheath/scrotom/or bag(female) then seperate the meat from the bone up to Below(leave a couple more inches than you think) where the tendon attatches and cut it off with a bone saw. In the past on does I've kept the, "taint" if you get my gist rather than the bag but it's easier to keep the bag. Don't be scared to leave a sizeable patch of hide holding the proof of ###.
For the tail on deer we just leave a patch of hide holding it to the, "quarter". I find it easier to prep those area's first so as not to screw up.

.........if that makes sense? If not repost and I or someone else can maybe explain it better. (wife just got back from mexico with tequilla and there's not as much as she brought back now)

 

[Cintax]

For a deer, I'd just leave one ham with the tag attached to the tendon. On that ham would be the tail and the scrotum for a buck and the ######l opening on a doe.

 

[brybenn]

For whitetail deer in Ontario you don't need the ### organs. You need the head to prove antlered or antlerless. I believe it's under 3" is considered antlerless. I've done it. Been stopped. Never had an issue. I also showed him pics of the animal for size. With bears I do the same as the tag is thru the nose.
Moose you must keep proof of ###

 

[berger]

For whitetail deer in Ontario you don't need the ### organs. You need the head to prove antlered or antlerless. I believe it's under 3" is considered antlerless. I've done it. Been stopped. Never had an issue. I also showed him pics of the animal for size. With bears I do the same as the tag is thru the nose.
Moose you must keep proof of ###

Yup...did this this season. Wrapped around antler, and through the ear of a doe. No genital proof required. We bought ours deer straight to the butcher this year and he had to see the tags.

 

[the spank]

Yup...did this this season. Wrapped around antler, and through the ear of a doe. No genital proof required. We bought ours deer straight to the butcher this year and he had to see the tags.

That is correct because the tag is either Antlered or Antlerless. There has been cases of does with antlers in the past though quite rare.

 

[Arclight]

For whitetail deer in Ontario you don't need the ### organs. You need the head to prove antlered or antlerless. I believe it's under 3" is considered antlerless. I've done it. Been stopped. Never had an issue. I also showed him pics of the animal for size. With bears I do the same as the tag is thru the nose.
Moose you must keep proof of ###

Anything under 3" steel classified as antlerless. I take the head with me. Once I get home it gets disposed of. Pics help too. I have been stopped NY police and the game wardens, and have never had a issue.