Taking deer to the butcher???

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

What do i need. I am going to cut the deer myself but i want to take the meat to the butcher to be made into pepperoni. Do i need to keep the tag with the meat or with the antlers going to the taxidermist??? Kind of hard to have the tag in 2 places at once???

Thanks

[elkfan2]

The taxidermist will need the tag with the horns and you should be able to leave your wild id number with the meat shop.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Tag stays with the meat.  License number and WILD ID # get entered into the taxi's log book, along with your contact info.  Butcher should have a log book also, which will take same info.

[bigpaw]

I did just what Double Lung said. tag with the meat and wild Id in the log book and the taxi.

[50CalJim]

I've always Just had the Butcher photocopy the Tag & give that to the Taxi. Never had a problem.

[BLKBEARKLR]

The taxidermist will need the tag with the horns and you should be able to leave your wild id number with the meat shop.

Taxidermist will never keep your tag, we just need wild ID and document number, tag always stays with the meat.


Joe

[carpsniperg2]

  thats 100% right. i also have known a few meat shops that will photo copy the tag, and give you a copy to take as well. or you could do it yourself with a copy. but the taxi does not keep the tag.

[Bob33]

The tag must stay with the meat at all times until it is fully consumed.

[Michelle_Nelson]

The law says that the tag must remain with the meat.  The taxidermist only needs the Wild ID and Doc# off of your Tag.  Wild ID's are either 11 (xxxx-xxx-xxxx) or 12 (xxxx-xxx-xxxxx) numbers.  The Document number is between 14 and 15 numbers and is continuous.

I like it when hunters bring me a photo copy of there tag.  IMO thats the best way to do it. 

[ELKBURGER]

I always process my own meat and have taken the boneless scrap to a butcher for pepperoni or sausage. The butcher has never needed the tag for boneless meat, only if they have the entire carcass. I keep all my tags, punched or not, so no one takes your tag, only info from the tag. Congrats on your deer!

[butcher98951]

The tag has to stay with the meat its the law even if its scraps or bones out the butcher needs that tag....(By Law)

[bobcat]

I've taken boned out meat in many times to be ground for hamburger or made into sausage, and they never want to see a tag, or even take down any information, other than my name and a phone number to call when the meat is ready. 

[butcher98951]

I own a meat shop and it is the law if a warden was to go in there and your meat had no tag big find for the both of you...

[gasman]

Make your own peperoni, I am on my third batch 

[BLKBEARKLR]

I own a meat shop and it is the law if a warden was to go in there and your meat had no tag big find for the both of you...

And that my friends comes straight from the butchers mouth!!!!!

And he is 100% correct. just because you are not doing it and nothing has ever happened still does not change the law.

Joe