Taking deer to the butcher???

[Bob33]

An enforcement officer can even (with probable cause) look in someone's freezer.  Meat without a tag = a poached animal.  A tag must always be with meat until consumed or you run the risk of being cited with a serious violation.

[Yelm hunter]

I'm not sure what Butcher you go to... But Stewart's Meat always needs a copy of the tag. It is state law that you must show your original tag to the butcher whole game animal or boneless (cut up) game animal. They will either keep the tag or make a copy. If a game warden happens to go into the butcher and asks whos animal that is and there is no tag. They will get fined and so will you as a Hunter!!
When you pick up your meat the butcher will give you your original tag back. Now with the Taxi like Michelle says they only need to document the numbers down and take a copy of the tag. Zach at Rainier Taxi. were I'm getting my buck done that is all he did.
Just me  :twocents:2 cents :twocents
Don't get caught!!
Also remember if you kill a elk you must either leave the balls attached or the head. That is state law too...

[jackelope]

I don't know the law but I'm really curious to see how many times people will post the exact same thing.

[madmack76]

 

[Skinnyman]

"2. Transporting Wildlife:
You must transport any big game animal with
the proper tag attached. The properly validated
tag must remain with the meat until it is eaten
(including cold storage).
If quartered, the tag should remain with the carcass
or largest portion of the carcass. If you need to
take the head to a taxidermist and the meat to
be processed, you can complete a taxidermy
ledger or invoice, providing information outlined
under "Possession and Use of Wildlife" for the
taxidermist, and keep the tag with the meat at the
processor"

[bobcat]

I don't know the law either, but it's not my problem. If I bring part of the meat from an animal in to be ground up, and I have the tag with me and ask if they need/want it, and they don't, then that is their problem if they are in violation of the law. The other question I have is that if I were to bring the tag with me, then what about all the other meat that is still at my house, now with no tag? I have experience with 3 or 4 different shops and none of them ever wanted to see a tag when I brought in meat to be ground up. One of those animals was a moose, so that was not just a small amount of meat. We had the tag and asked if they needed it, and they did not. Did not want tag numbers or anything else.

[bobcat]

If quartered, the tag should remain with the carcass
or largest portion of the carcass.

That must be the key sentence for me. I don't ever bring a whole animal to a butcher shop. I cut all the steaks myself and only take in the rest of it to be ground.

There, now I've said the same thing how many times Jackelope?   

[pods8]

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...

I'd go ahead and have the butcher copy the tag for doing the ground portion but no way would I leave the original with them, I'd want that back with the larger portion of meat from the rest of the carcass in my freezer.

[wastickslinger]

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)

What if you are taking 25 lbs of scraps to the butcher and there is 50 lbs cut and wrapped in your freezer? I though the law was that the tag stayed with the largest portion of the deer. 

[BLKBEARKLR]

For all the ones that want to read into the gray area, what if I gots me a burger in the freezer, one in my truck and I want another one made at wendys. Oh my what do I do. Go to KINKOS. They will gladly make you 3 copies for 14 cents apiece. There solves the problem. Lot of what ifs out there when it is has been clearly identified as being a law.

Sorry jack had to say it one more time.

Joe

[sporked horn]

Glad I saw this post before I took my buck in to have it processed.  When I lived in Portlandistan the butcher would just take the info off the tag and give it back to me with the rack.

[Yelm hunter]

I agree with the KINKO'S.... Make a few copies... 33$ cents sure beats a fine were you can't hunt anymore!!! Read the rules pamphlet people... That's why they make those and they are also online...

[bobcat]

No Kinkos for me. I'll just go with what the law says and leave the tag with the largest portion of meat.

[Bob33]

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=232-12-061

WAC 232-12-061 Agency filings affecting this section 
Tagging requirements.
  It is unlawful for a person who kills a big game animal or turkey to fail to immediately cut out and completely remove from his or her tag the designated notches corresponding to the day and month of the kill for that species (unless the tagging requirement is specifically exempted by the fish and wildlife commission), and to fail to immediately attach his or her notched tag to the carcass of such animal or bird. That tag must remain attached to the carcass while it is being transported and must remain with the wildlife during the period of retention of the edible parts.

[Yelm hunter]

BOB...has it exactally as the rule book!! No matter what part of meat you have big portion or not. YOU MUST have the tag or a copy of it with the game at ALL TIMES!!