S7-E151: 3 Tools You Need For Game Recovery

North American Outdoors

Anyone who has ever been hunting will tell you, it is after you take your animal that the real work begins! Game recovery is not only taking possession of game animals, but field dressing and legal quartering. Depending on the state, legal quartering is how far you can cut up the animal in the field. Legal quartering is usually two shoulders, two hams, two backstraps, two tenderloins, and boned-out rib and neck meat.

The right tools make the easy and efficient recovery of game possible. Failure to pack out the edible portions of game is illegal in every jurisdiction. To intentionally waste something negligently or inappropriately is referred to as “Wanton Waste” and offenses of these statutes are taken very seriously. To recover game animals, there are several items that every hunter must have: knives, bone saws and transportation devices.

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