This is a happy and sad story.
My good friend from Maryland and I went hunting in Idaho,beautiful,opening morning I shot a very nice 4x3. two hours later my buddy,sitting on his quad waiting for me, he shoots a very nice 5x4 that pops up were he's sitting.First time either he or I shot our deer on opening morning.This is the happy part.
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Few days later we at my house,I have my deer hanging in my garage and getting it cut up. My friend had his deer processed in Idaho.Calif. Fish and Game drive by house! see the deer and stop by to do their F/G thing. the deer has a validated Idaho tag wired to the rack.I had just cut the horns from the head and all the long bones and vetebral column were in a plastic bag ready for the can. The nice Fish and Game man tells me I brought this deer in to Calif. illegally and writes me a citation.
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Apparently Calif. Fish and Game is so gravely concerned over the spread of chronic wasting disease that any big game animal brought in to the state must have all brain and vetebral column removed before being brought in.
I am so glad to be now informed of this,
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I am pretty sure that I am not the only Calif resident that went out of state and harvested animals and did the same thing they have since they quit hunting in Calif.
I would like to know if anybody else out there has heard of this.
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