I have learned from the past that I will never tag my deer until the gutting is done. A friend of mineopened his deer and found it not normal and he never got his replacement tagfrom the PGC up to5 days later.
I done did opened a deer last year to find it to be smelly and discolored with white bumps on the ribs and a huge solid glob of blood up by it's throat.It was the size of a baseball and felt like broken splintered bones.
I didn't bother to tag the deer and just let it lay there. If it took my friend 5 days to get a replacement tag I was not goanna waiste my time sitting around doing nothing till I got mine. Does anyone else waite to tag their deer after the smell and visual test works out? Or what does one suggest to do in a case like that? We only got two weeks to hunt and time is valuble to us who can't hunt every day as some can. There was 2 other hunters who came by and said they would do the same. They said after seeing this deer, They will waite to tag theirs until they inspect it. They said they would just walk away from it also. The one said that he might call the PGC and just tell them the location of this deer and hang up. That's all that is needed for them to know. Just curious if anyone would waiste their precious hunting time waiting for a new tag?