Where is your tag when you quarter out an elk?

[salmonfifty]

Must be securely attached to the carcass. If you kill a elk and you have your tag punched the gamewarden will not give you a hard time. make sure your tag is PUNCHED and you will be fine. If you are packing a elk out, make sure your tag is with the first pack that goes in your truck. I guarantee you if a warden is waiting at your truck and you have your tag punched with the first pack you will be fine.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Must be securely attached to the carcass. If you kill a elk and you have your tag punched the gamewarden will not give you a hard time. make sure your tag is PUNCHED and you will be fine. If you are packing a elk out, make sure your tag is with the first pack that goes in your truck. I guarantee you if a warden is waiting at your truck and you have your tag punched with the first pack you will be fine.

PUNCH TAG !! 
I always punch my tag, then stuff it inside the mouth on a cow, or around the antler of a bull, then wrap the crap out of the snout, or antler with duct tape.
I then pack out only meat, hide, head, so it is with the largest portion that can have evidence of sex attached.
Never had a problem, actually the few times I have been stopped, they just asked me if it was notched, I showed them my license, told them where it was,
they said thank you, and congratulations ! 

[MtnMuley]

Notched and usually around an antler. If not, then notched and on my pack.

[elkslayer069]

If gammie don't like that he cans kiss me were the good lord split me..

Hunterman(Tony)

[MADMAX]

In my pocket 

Same here

[Curly]

Must be securely attached to the carcass. If you kill a elk and you have your tag punched the gamewarden will not give you a hard time. make sure your tag is PUNCHED and you will be fine. If you are packing a elk out, make sure your tag is with the first pack that goes in your truck. I guarantee you if a warden is waiting at your truck and you have your tag punched with the first pack you will be fine.

PUNCH TAG !! 
I always punch my tag, then stuff it inside the mouth on a cow, or around the antler of a bull, then wrap the crap out of the snout, or antler with duct tape.
I then pack out only meat, hide, head, so it is with the largest portion that can have evidence of sex attached.
Never had a problem, actually the few times I have been stopped, they just asked me if it was notched, I showed them my license, told them where it was,
they said thank you, and congratulations ! 

Do you pack out the head of a cow?

[ICEMAN]

I would put it on the qtr that had the "proof of sex, naturally attached" on it. or you could take KillBilly's advice seriously it is in the regs. it has to be on the biggest prtion of meat.

It is one thing to tote a tagged head full of horns  or a cows head for that matter out of the woods.  But I just can't see toting their sex organs to prove anything. I have never done it and would only do it in the case of a bull/cow calf. I might take a cell cam pic for a gamie to look at and give him gps coords.  I have never had an enforcement officer ask me for an animals proof of sex.

Agree.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Do you pack out the head of a cow?

I do.
I try to get the animal gutted, and skinned, quarters hung in game bags,  ASAP,  then first trip out is head and hide.
get my pack frame (I hunt with day pack) and bone out meat, get it to cooler, takes me 6 trips by myself to get an Elk out.
so getting the meat cooling and hanging is my #1 priority.
I also like to practice caping, in case I ever get a bull I want mounted.
I dont get to kill very many Elk, so I try to make the most out of each one...

[et1702]

Be careful!!!  If you shoot a cow or a doe, proof of SEX is very important!  Had a warden threaten to fine and confiscate all our meat.  Meat was deboned and in game bags and in the coolers.  Tags were inside game bags.  We didn't leave proof of sex on meat.  Luckily, we still had the heads in camp.  But, a cow or doe head doesn't really prove that you don't have a bull or buck mixed in there somewhere.  After separating the four of us so that we couldn't talk to one another and then interviewing each of us one at a time, he believed we were legally hunting.  He even had us show him our bone pile to make sure there was no "wastage."  In the end, he did write us each a $100+ dollar ticket  .  However, he did not confiscate the meat  .  For the female critters, need to leave some proof of sex naturally attached to a big chunk of meat! 

[338_Thumper]

It has happened to a few guys over the years that have had their elk taken away from them. I tell everyone to take a notch out of the ear and put in your pocket. You can then call the game warden and tell him what happened. It't hard to explain to the gamie why you have a piece of the animal and they don't.

[Bustyn]

It is one thing to tote a tagged head full of horns  or a cows head for that matter out of the woods.  But I just can't see toting their sex organs to prove anything. I have never done it and would only do it in the case of a bull/cow calf. I might take a cell cam pic for a gamie to look at and give him gps coords.  I have never had an enforcement officer ask me for an animals proof of sex.

Without proof of sex the game officers cannot tell if your game is legal or not.  Someone could shoot a large bull in a spike/cow only area, leave the horns, and claim that it was a cow.

Had a conversation with a game enforcement officer about this a couple weeks ago.  He said they are starting to be sticklers about this, especially since they busted those guys near Yakima trying to pull a fast one.  I guess there was a group of guys hauling coolers full of elk meat out of the mountains, but no evidence of sex and no heads.  Anyway, the tags were all there and notched, but without proof of sex the enforcement officer couldn't tell if the elk were legal or not.  Long story short, after interviewing everyone the lies didn't match, someone confessed, the guys were busted, and the meat was confiscated. 

Personally, I would much rather pack out a mammary gland than a cow or doe head.  It's really no trouble to make another cut and throw it in with the rest of the meat.     

[Curly]

Personally, I would much rather pack out a mammary gland than a cow or doe head.  It's really no trouble to make another cut and throw it in with the rest of the meat.   

Evidence of sex is supposed to be "naturally attached".......

[coachcw]

in your pocket till out of the woods then on the quarter with the evidence of sex . if you bone him out then i'd attach to the head , I don't think you'd get hastled .

[pianoman9701]

On the antler or stuffed in a small cut in the ear.

[et1702]

If you butcher or debone your animal in the field to facilitate packing out or back at camp to place in cooler, proof of sex needs to be naturally attached to the biggest piece of meat remaining.  Heads don't count as proof of sex unless they are still attached to the carcass.  I know!  In 2005, Game officer wrote four of us tickets, as we already had our animals deboned and bagged in all our coolers.  We still had the heads, and tags were with the meat.  But, that did not matter!  Luckily, he didn't confiscate all our meat, as our stories all matched and we were legally hunting.  But, as someone else said, they can be sticklers to the letter of the law if they want too.