no more back tags in WI

[mthompson]

I hate the back tags, because I always have several layers on and add/subtract them often...having to make sure the tag was on my new outer layer or on my pack was a royal pain. Plus getting it stuck on crap was annoying.

Now, the "durable" tags and green licenses....I wish they'd keep those or at least give us the option to have them. I have never once had one get destroyed in the field, unlike paper which will certainly be deteriorated or destroyed every year (without a fair measure of care).....we've all been in a spot where most of what we have with us is damp or soaked completely.

Plus I just plain like the "tagging" aspect of hunting...sorta the culmination of tons and tons of work and effort. A moment to stop, take it all in, and pray and think about life. To have a printed off piece of paper in your pocket cheapens the whole thing for me. I keep all my old tags/licenses in a stack in my gun cabinet drawer, a reminder of all the years gone by and all the memories of either feast or famine.

 

[wiscwhip]

I'm slow here, so we don't tag deer anymore?

Buy your license online through the DNR website, print all your own licenses and carcass tags(about 10 extra of each buck and doe tags), shoot a deer, validate the tag in the field, get it to your garage, process deer and get in freezer, tear up validated "paper tag" and throw in woodstove, "conveniently forget" to call in your kill, go out again tomorrow with a "copied" tag and do it all over again. They will be none the wiser at this point, because little do they know you could have 10 more carcass tags in your pocket. Shoot 3 or 4 bucks a year and as many does as you want.

 

[BJE80]

Buy your license online through the DNR website, print all your own licenses and carcass tags(about 10 extra of each buck and doe tags), shoot a deer, validate the tag in the field, get it to your garage, process deer and get in freezer, tear up validated "paper tag" and throw in woodstove, "conveniently forget" to call in your kill, go out again tomorrow with a "copied" tag and do it all over again. They will be none the wiser at this point, because little do they know you could have 10 more carcass tags in your pocket. Shoot 3 or 4 bucks a year and as many does as you want.

Technically you are supposed to have that tag with your meat until it is consumed. Not saying it won't happen but there still is a check and balance in place.

I would be sad if they got rid of the green tags too. Back tags on the other hand can go.


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[wiscwhip]

Technically you are supposed to have that tag with your meat until it is consumed. Not saying it won't happen but there still is a check and balance in place.

I would be sad if they got rid of the green tags too. Back tags on the other hand can go.


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Ok, I'll play along...

Leave the tag in your freezer until you shoot another one and validate the next "open(i.e. copied)" tag you fill, then burn the first one and replace it with the second one from the most recent kill. What would they do? Tell you that you have too much meat in your freezer for one deer, prove it, it was a big som'bitch. They would have to DNA test the meat to be sure. Besides, unless you're a complete bigmouthed jackassed idiot about these things, how many times do CO's just "pop in" for a freezer check on a private landowner, or anyone for that matter? They would have to check you for a valid tag in the field, at that point, if you have a valid carcass tag and haven't called in a harvest, they would assume you hadn't killed anything up to that point and walk away none the wiser. If you have 1 State printed green tag that has been validated in the field for your first kill, it is pretty hard to get away with that, multiple copies of home printed paper tags are another story. Poachers gonna poach, but damn are they making it easy on them!

 

[Bill]

Just got an email from Missouri dept of conservation.

Going to the same method. We haven't needed back tags but we can now print permits on plain paper.
Oh well, I guess an outlaw is going to cheat no matter what. This does make easier but if their going to cheat now, they would have before also.