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The whole "immediately after" requirement was no doubt written before the advent of party hunting.
There are occasions where it's impossible to affix the tag "immediately" after a kill. In the case of moose hunting, it could take a half hour or more to get the tag holder to the kill site. Allowances are obviously allowed under those circumstances. The tagging and then removal.....not so much !!
You are totally correct Rick. It is the holder of the tag who must immediately affix the tag to the animal.
If you can remove the tag after affixing it, it was illegally attached to start with.(that is to assure no reuse of tag)
The ends of each of the adhesive sides should meet flush. That is properly sealed and ensures no way to reuse the tag. So to remove it and re attach it you'd have to cut it and reattach a cut(non valid) seal. A cut seal placed on a deer is not a properly sealed, legal deer anymore.
There have been charges for just such improper tagging.
Agree...but that's only the sticky seals you get if you buy over the phone. The seals you get from an issuer, are those Mickey mouse seals you have to provide a zip tie, string or in our case, some poor guy's boot lace .... LolQuote:
Originally Posted by skypilot
True Rick, I have had some of those(with zip tie) in the past. The last one was on a turkey tag if I remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_iles
My last bull tag was one of those little seals. I caught crap from the CO because I only slit the date, time etc, on the tag, because there's no room to notch out the info without hitting two or more dates etc....guess he felt it necessary to complain about something ! A hearty "congratulations" would have been much better....but then I digress !!Quote:
Originally Posted by skypilot
If you really think a tag ruins your pic, you should just give up hunting.... My bucks are all still wearing their tags..... Attachment 27701
Don't we need to keep it attached to the deer too, using this sentence leads me to believe that there is more to it than I thought...Quote:
Originally Posted by jmillett
(personally I wouldn't remove it until I cut it up at home but.............................)
Maybe clearer written language would help....
Just my opinion but if you are seen attaching a tag that was previously attached a CO will have good reason to suspect this tag was alredy on another animal. I too hate the tags in a picture so "my" way of doing it is to snap a few as the deer lays before touching it then notching my tag, setting it aside taking the bush pics I want then attaching the tag. If a CO wants to gripe so be it. I think most would understand. Im not recommending this as it still is not legal but its my way.
After reading the reg, I'm going to change my mind. If you don't need to transport it anymore you don't need a tag on it. Well, unless moving it a few feet means transporting! I would keep the tag on till it's cut up.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmillett