Steve G — Yes, your “tone” really rips my nickers! 😛 Seriously: not. Re-reading my original post that started this thread, I’d say I definitely have an edgy “tone” there myself, but all I meant to ask and project was pure curiosity, to wit” “This seems logically illogical, so why is it still required in many states?” That is, if you are not legally require to drag a deer out whole, but choose to, you still can. But … etc. The responses so far seem to make it plainly an East vs. West situation, as several eastern brothers and sisters (that OK, KD? I’m reminded of the Twain line, spoken by a souther evangelist, “Beloved brethern and sistern …” :P) have said, in effect, “Well it’s so close to the road that it’s easiest for me to drag it out and do a proper butchering job at home.” Vs. Kingwouldbee, who graphically illustrates my point, that in the West it just ain’t hardly mostly possible and tough enough just to bone and pack out. So we’re seeing a “regional preference” based largely on “what’s possible.” ??? But what I think I meant to ask was not our personal preferences and traditions as hunters, but why some states still require this when others don’t? I guess the answer to that is “Who knows?” Shifting to a related point, there seems a tradition in the East to hang your deer for “aging” and that you can do a cleaner job of taking the meat off the bone with a hung deer … while in the West either inexperienced hunters get the meat out as best they can and turn it over to a pro butcher, or we have figured out that we can do a first-rate boning job right where the animal fell, and don’t put so much credence on aging as we do “get it off the bone and cooled down asap.”
Again, no real preference here, as I’ve lived both east and west and was raised in between, and used both methods with good results, yum! My downfall is endless curiosity.
And back to Steve G — indeed, “uncharacteristic” for me to be even semi-silent here … it’s a battle I fight constantly and generally lose, esp. like now at happy hour. As a bowhunter, I want to take an active part in the coversations just like other frequent posters here. As a moderator, I fear constantly being perceived as overbearing or “my way or the hiway” as some have said. A good moderator should be mostly invisible. I trust you see my fix. But that doesn’t mean I’ll ever forgive you, Steve, for your horrible “tone.” :P:twisted::lol: xo, ol dave
