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"Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« on: November 20, 2025, 08:45:34 AM »
When hunting in an "Any Deer" GMU do you still have to retain proof of sex while transporting?

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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2025, 09:57:17 AM »
I would say yes.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=220-413-090

(2) It is unlawful to possess or transport big game animals unless evidence of the sex of the animal remains naturally attached to the carcass until the carcass is processed and/or stored for consumption.
(a) Evidence of sex means the head with antlers or horns attached or penis or testes of male big game animals or the head or udder of female big game animals any of which must be naturally attached to at least one quarter of the carcass or to the largest portion of meat.
(b) For the purpose of this rule, "stored for consumption" means at the final point of storage prior to consumption of the meat.
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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2025, 11:37:20 AM »
I have heard that the game official have you take them back to the site of the kill.

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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2025, 02:47:40 PM »
Not sure why it would matter in an any deer unit.Any deer means male or female,antler points mean nothing.But Washington can f$@k up anything.

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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2025, 06:58:50 PM »
Gonna be fun to find the largest piece of meat when they have to be boned out to transport.
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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2025, 07:09:09 PM »
Gonna be fun to find the largest piece of meat when they have to be boned out to transport.

I just bone a rear quarter out on one whole piece and if it’s a male, you only have to leave a few inches of the dick attached. Super easy. Females I leave part of the udder attached and that’s easy as well

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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2025, 07:11:42 PM »
Not sure why it would matter in an any deer unit.Any deer means male or female,antler points mean nothing.But Washington can f$@k up anything.

Once you leave the any deer unit, it’s going to matter if you get stopped. It’s a law that’s easy enough to follow. Saved our butts in Idaho once when the warden checked the cooler at camp. We almost didn’t leave it attached when we biked the elk out on the mountain, even with the head and antlers next to the cooler.

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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2025, 08:42:03 AM »
Gonna be fun to find the largest piece of meat when they have to be boned out to transport.

This is why I was asking...working out how I'm getting next year's out of the woods and I think boning it out in the field will be the easiest...but what about the sex.

I'm not a head hunter so I'd rather not pack the horns out, if I should be so lucky to get a buck instead of a doe.

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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2025, 09:15:49 AM »
Gonna be fun to find the largest piece of meat when they have to be boned out to transport.

This is why I was asking...working out how I'm getting next year's out of the woods and I think boning it out in the field will be the easiest...but what about the sex.

I'm not a head hunter so I'd rather not pack the horns out, if I should be so lucky to get a buck instead of a doe.
It’s very, very easy to leave the proof of sex attached to a rear boned out quarter. There is videos on YouTube

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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2025, 09:23:43 AM »
Several times an old guy in our camp would get a doe tag. He would hang it two or three days depending on weather. Before he started home he would bone the entire deer out.
Put it in a cooler for transport.

A game agent came by and started to give him a hard time about it. The old who is very polite told him that the law says .

Proof of sex until ready for consumption.

Nothing says I cannot cut ,wrap, or eat right here in camp.

The old guy had the proof of sex but not attached.

The Game agent thought about it and left.
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Re: "Any Deer" GMU's - Proof of Sex?
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2025, 11:35:48 AM »

Got your proof right here.


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