Meat transportation .. Requirement for weight of boned out deer?

[tonymoe]

how in the hell could they put a number on what the weight should be? Oh, I forgot, all animals are the same size and therefore weigh the same?

[tonymoe]

swhunter, I understand and fully practice what you said. If I don't need it legally or for taxidermy reasons, it won't come with me.

[tonymoe]

I think a lot of times it is honestly so funny how some people write down screw them it's my rights blah blah. If you sit back and think about it for a while and instead ask your self why. Alaska is another state that does not weigh their meat but they are very knowledgable and knows what kind of meat you should have for what kind of animal and I have been checked numerous times to see if I had the approximate amonut of meat. I have even had to take a game warden about 6 miles cross country to show him my moose carcus to prove I got as much meat as possible off. Too bad he was a new guy and did not know the area that well I am sure he will always remember our walk through the swamp.

Here is why they do as they do as told to me by a Game Warden in Alaska, as for a hunter like me or yourself we believe in taking out all meat to feed our families. A lot of these hunters that fly in to Alaska, Idaho or wherever else they do not care about the meat, They are after horns and hide only. Do you honestly think that Agnew gave a rats a$$ about the meat off that elk he took last year? I don't. I think it is a good system in place. If you sit back and think about it. Just my  

I don't personally know what your saying, but I have read a few articles on how the locals get pissed off at the rich *censored*s that fly in to alaska, shoot a giant and just expect the locals to take the meat. It ends up becoming a frantic time with people trying to find folks to take meat

[bow4elk]

I guess they hit the fly in camps the hardest that are on the runways. ! gammie sat there and watched a guy bone out his deer, kept telling him there better not be a scrap of meat left on those bones.

In Alaska, this is true.  They are hardcore about taking every edible scrap of meat, included all rib meat, neck meat up to the jaw, etc.  They will check carcasses.  It's a general rule to take before and after photos of your animal as it lay when you approached, during the boning out process, and the carcass (from several angles) after you're done, preferably with you in them.  Seems nuts to me but they've had problems in the past and I don't blame them for cracking down on it.

[actionshooter]

We were checked on a runway in Idaho last year. Let me tell you, they are serious.  The cooler "felt a little lite" but after looking thru it he said it was OK.

 In parts of Alaska you have to pack out quarters BONE-IN,  that can be a major bitch!!

 With those experiences I've had, I'm still in favor of wastage laws. Its unfortunate they are needed, but scumbags DO waste meat.

[whacker1]

One of my friends shot a mule deer in Idaho a few years ago that we didn't find that night.  When we did find it - the wolves had cleaned it off.  Nothing worth keeping, it was picked clean.

[boneaddict]

You use the word quarters Loosely.    The hams on my bull Bone in were 180 each.

[actionshooter]

You use the word quarters Loosely.    The hams on my bull Bone in were 180 each.

In the unit I was in, the bone in law was required for moose also. I never did figure out how you would do that   
 I was hunting caribou= much easier 

[NRA4LIFE]

Just be thankful we CAN cut them up and pack them out.  In WI where I grew up you still have to take deer and bear to a state licensed check station and they have to be whole.  Gutting is allowable but nothing else.