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Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« on: August 09, 2024, 08:23:59 AM »
Short vid on packing your bear hides in the freezer for storage. Just some info for ya’ll.
Joel @BlackRiverTaxidermy

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/sRoeaydYio6XAz2p/?mibextid=WC7FNe
« Last Edit: August 09, 2024, 08:37:57 AM by BlackRiverTaxidermy »
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Re: Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2024, 08:50:13 AM »
Nicely done! Doesn't the WDFW actually require the tag be on the animal itself?

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Re: Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2024, 09:40:55 AM »
Nicely done! Doesn't the WDFW actually require the tag be on the animal itself?

In field, yes. When it’s home the tag is actually supposed to be kept with the meat but your kind of splitting hairs when it’s stored on bag containing the hide vs. the meat.
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Re: Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2024, 09:56:01 AM »
We live in a world where "splitting hairs" allows many citations to be written...

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Re: Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2024, 10:01:44 AM »
Wdfw gives you one tag but they can require you to have that one tag in Three places at once some how. Needs to be with the meat I have in my freezer, needs to be with my meat at the sausage making place, and needs to be with my hide headed to the taxidermist. I even had a game warden tell me I was supposed to have the accompanying tag attached the the back of every mount, skull plate, or turkey fan laying around. Yes they love to keep things confusing to keep their funding up

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Re: Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2024, 10:38:39 AM »
Wdfw gives you one tag but they can require you to have that one tag in Three places at once some how. Needs to be with the meat I have in my freezer, needs to be with my meat at the sausage making place, and needs to be with my hide headed to the taxidermist. I even had a game warden tell me I was supposed to have the accompanying tag attached the the back of every mount, skull plate, or turkey fan laying around. Yes they love to keep things confusing to keep their funding up

If I were you I would gather my facts from a different game warden. I’ve dropped antlers off to my taxidermist without a tag and the game warden standing there and it was not an issue. The tag is supposed to be with the meat and your license and tag information is recorded in the taxidermist’s log book.

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Re: Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2024, 11:36:43 AM »
Wdfw gives you one tag but they can require you to have that one tag in Three places at once some how. Needs to be with the meat I have in my freezer, needs to be with my meat at the sausage making place, and needs to be with my hide headed to the taxidermist. I even had a game warden tell me I was supposed to have the accompanying tag attached the the back of every mount, skull plate, or turkey fan laying around. Yes they love to keep things confusing to keep their funding up

You don’t have to have THE tag present at a taxidermy shop. We just have to have a pic of the tag OR the numbers (wild ID and DOC) numbers for our game book. By letter of the law the tag is required to stay with the meat. I always recommend people take a pic of the NOTCHED tag after harvest if the carcass is being taken to a friends cooler or a butcher AND some butchers are notorious for losing the tags as well.
The the video, I’m merely stating the best way to keep the tag safe is to tape it to the bag that has the hide so WHEN you go the taxidermist OR when you go the butcher is accessible instead of frozen in the ear or mouth of the bear, which happens quite a bit. 
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Re: Video on How to Package Your Bear Hides for the Freezer!
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2024, 11:39:57 AM »
You dont have to leave a tag with a butcher shop either. All they need is the info. Some will make a copy of the tag.

 


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