Do you ALWAYS Register your deer?

[fonz58]

Recently some hunting friends and I were discussing HOW we in Minnesota must bring our deer to a registration station. About 1/3 of those in our group "don't even bother to register their deer in person".....ah, it's too much hassle they say. Why can't they have it like ND where you just mail it in, or do it on the internet? It made me wonder how accurate (or inaccurate) our deer kill count really is? What % of your deer (or your friends deer....if you want to remain anonymous) are registered AT the BIG GAME registration station?

[Bogsucker]

100%. An unregistered deer is an illegal deer. I wonder what the fine is for possessing an unregistered deer?

[Ruttin' Buck]

100% of mine. 100% of every person I've ever hunted with.

What they're doing is not a whole lot different than poaching. The hassle thing to me sounds like a load of bullsh*$. You make is sound like there's one registration station.

I would guess there are alterior motives...like shooting more than one buck per year. Not registering a bow kill would leave you open for a firearm buck. Or not registering firearm...muzzleloader...etc, etc. That is poaching.

[fonz58]

Hey Guys! I agree that this is NOT right!
I condem it as well, I'm just curious as to how widespread it is. It would sure throw off the DNR's numbers if just 10% of the hunters did this.

If it matters, they claimed "I had my legal license, I tagged the deer, and I wanted to butcher them right away......Just didn't want to take the time to throw them on the trailer, drive the 20 mile round trip...bla bla bla bla.

[Guest]

By all means, it is considered poaching.

If they ever attempt to bring in that venison to a meat processing plant, they will get turned down, and possibly turned in..........

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[yellowlab]

We register all of our deer. What really posses me off though is that the station, gas station, people don't even come out to look at the deer. I mean this as in they don't even look to see if it is actually a buck or a doe. We could probably quarter out all of our deer and then go register after the fact. Is this common where everyone else registers too. If so my question is why do we do it. I will continue to do so until something changes but I still don't understand.

[leechlake]

Where we register our deer (we register all of them) the people that own the store were told by the DNR before last year that they had a new program for paying the stores that provide the service. ZERO. The people said no and the DNR finally decided to give them a quarter for all the registrations. A quarter? That's why they don't usually come out. It's busy at these businesses and actually at our place they usually come out and take your picture so they can post them next year. Kind of a tradition provided by your neighborhood business. The DNR says that it brings people into the store. I don't know how many people just come in, buy nothing and leave. Put it this way, if you're at work right now think of if in the next three days 200 people come in, disrupt what you're doing, make you fill out a tag, you then walk outside in the cold, view the deer and have them say cheese. You then get back to work and get a shiney quarter! Then you try to remember what you were doing and you get back to work only to...have it happen again. Sorry I got off topic a bit. Register your deer and buy something from the place you register it.

[traveler]

Our deer camp is a few miles from a small town up north; we always register deer but never bother to take the deer to town when we register. They NEVER check em'. It's a busy one stop convienence store, often with just a young girl working the register. No way they could/would check all the deer, unless of course they hired another person, which you know wouldn't happen.

[eyecrosser2000]

We register every deer, always.

[Steve Foss]

I do, too. It's cowardice, really. The one time I don't is the time I get caught and the C.O. is one citation short of his quota.

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