LAST EDITED ON Oct-28-11 AT 12:54PM (MST)[p]I have never quartered a deer and packed it out on my back. I have always just drug the deer from the place of the kill back to the truck (this has royally sucked sometimes). The area I have been hunting is well away from roads and if I kill a deer back up in there I want to quarter it/debone it and pack it out... I want to abide by any laws or regulations that are established... What can I leave and what do I have to pack out? Items in question are skull, hide, rib bones etc. I am trying to do what is right and would just like some guidance. I am hunting in the general central region of Utah. Thanks
Regulation about Packing out a deer
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Hawkeye
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The Utah Big Game Guidebook states as follws:
"You may not waste any big game animal or permit it to be wasted or spoiled. (Waste means to abandon a big game animal or allow it to spoil or be used in a manner not normally associated with its beneficial use. For example, using the meat as fertilizer or for trapping bait is not considered a beneficial use of the meat.)"
When I am hunting in backcountry areas, I prefer to use the "gutless method" and remove the quarters, the backstraps and the tenderloins.
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"You may not waste any big game animal or permit it to be wasted or spoiled. (Waste means to abandon a big game animal or allow it to spoil or be used in a manner not normally associated with its beneficial use. For example, using the meat as fertilizer or for trapping bait is not considered a beneficial use of the meat.)"
When I am hunting in backcountry areas, I prefer to use the "gutless method" and remove the quarters, the backstraps and the tenderloins.
Hawkeye
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Winchester Apex .50 Cal
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LAST EDITED ON Oct-28-11 AT 03:23PM (MST)[p]In Idaho, one of the rules is that "evidence of sex must be left naturally attached". To satisfy that regulation, you can leave the head attached to (at least) one front quarter or (my choice) to leave the sex organs attached to (skin around) one of the hind quarters.
If boning, which I choose, DO NOT leave meat on the bones. I've actually had two separate people have to come and speak in the hunter ed classes (typically every one for 3 months or 6 months) about wasting game. The acceptable methods to prove evidence of sex remain the same.
The officers have actually made the hunters take them BACK to the kill site to see if they were satisfied.
Within the shadows, go quietly.
If boning, which I choose, DO NOT leave meat on the bones. I've actually had two separate people have to come and speak in the hunter ed classes (typically every one for 3 months or 6 months) about wasting game. The acceptable methods to prove evidence of sex remain the same.
The officers have actually made the hunters take them BACK to the kill site to see if they were satisfied.
Within the shadows, go quietly.
travishunter3006
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If I was you, I'd get as much as you can. Leave just the bones! minus rib meat. I don't know if you are going to get razzed over that. good luck to ya. Hope to see pics of a monster buck!
It was a big bodied 2 point. (this is my signature)
It was a big bodied 2 point. (this is my signature)
Law in most states are that you must take the four quarters and back straps but most people will give you hell if you dont take more than that. I take all that plus the neck.
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timothymarks
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if too far in i take my quarters, back straps and loins. the rest can be used to shoot coyotes off of the next day!
