So I'm going to CO in a few weeks and I want to understand the rules on meat coming home with me. Here's the regs from the TPWD website concerning carcass movement from potential CWD areas (STate of CO applies here, I believe):
*No CWD-susceptible species carcasses or parts of carcasses can enter Texas from a state or country known to have CWD, and no CWD-susceptible species carcasses or parts of carcasses can be transported out of a CWD Zone EXCEPT:*
> Cut quarters with all brain and spinal cord tissue removed
> Boned meat/cut and wrapped — Texas regulations do not allow processing beyond quarters until reaching your final destination (possessor’s personal residence or commercial facility/private cold storage).
>Caped hides with skull not attached
>Skull plate with antlers attached and cleaned of all soft tissue
>Finished taxidermy products
>The skinned or unskinned head of a susceptible species may be transported to a taxidermist (with a Deer Head Waiver), provided all brain material, soft tissue, spinal column and any unused portions of the head are disposed of in a landfill in Texas permitted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The waiver should be kept on your person or with the deer head until it reaches the taxidermist. Download the Deer Head Waiver form (PWD 1410) to transport the intact head or obtain from a TPWD CWD check station.
>Hunters bringing intact deer heads into Texas from a state or country with CWD should also have this waiver.
Help me interpret this bolded section. Does this mean I can bring boned out meat home so long as it was harvested in another state? Or does Texas say I can't bring ANY game home without keeping meat on the bones? I understand that animals killed in Texas have to remain on quarters till at final destination.
The entire list is of exceptions to the transportation ban of carcasses, so at first pass I read it that I can bring home a deer under any of the following conditions. One of which is titled as boned meat/cut and wrapped. Then it turns around and says that boned meat/cut and wrapped is prohibited. Which is it? And as an aside, why are we prohibited from boning out meat? Anyone ever tried hauling an elk out solo? You ditch those bones awful fast.
*No CWD-susceptible species carcasses or parts of carcasses can enter Texas from a state or country known to have CWD, and no CWD-susceptible species carcasses or parts of carcasses can be transported out of a CWD Zone EXCEPT:*
> Cut quarters with all brain and spinal cord tissue removed
> Boned meat/cut and wrapped — Texas regulations do not allow processing beyond quarters until reaching your final destination (possessor’s personal residence or commercial facility/private cold storage).
>Caped hides with skull not attached
>Skull plate with antlers attached and cleaned of all soft tissue
>Finished taxidermy products
>The skinned or unskinned head of a susceptible species may be transported to a taxidermist (with a Deer Head Waiver), provided all brain material, soft tissue, spinal column and any unused portions of the head are disposed of in a landfill in Texas permitted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The waiver should be kept on your person or with the deer head until it reaches the taxidermist. Download the Deer Head Waiver form (PWD 1410) to transport the intact head or obtain from a TPWD CWD check station.
>Hunters bringing intact deer heads into Texas from a state or country with CWD should also have this waiver.
Help me interpret this bolded section. Does this mean I can bring boned out meat home so long as it was harvested in another state? Or does Texas say I can't bring ANY game home without keeping meat on the bones? I understand that animals killed in Texas have to remain on quarters till at final destination.
The entire list is of exceptions to the transportation ban of carcasses, so at first pass I read it that I can bring home a deer under any of the following conditions. One of which is titled as boned meat/cut and wrapped. Then it turns around and says that boned meat/cut and wrapped is prohibited. Which is it? And as an aside, why are we prohibited from boning out meat? Anyone ever tried hauling an elk out solo? You ditch those bones awful fast.
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