May not be something you want to keep but in some states by law you must leave the positive sex id such as penis or one testical on the meat naturally attached until the animal has been registered and processed. Once the animal is butchered the id parts can be thrown away. I know Colorado has this law (and there you must keep the utter or male part with the meat until it is registered and if anyone has ever hunted Colorado you know that you don't actually take your animal to a registration station so you could kill your game and leave with no registration so you must leave it with the meat till you get back to your home state basically, cuzthe Dept of F&Gcall you later in the season to verify and survey how your hunt went and ask if you harvested anything....unless you get checked by a warden while you are out there then they will register your animal right then)....... I'm sure some other states may too have similar laws with sex partsso if I were you DropTine I'd look into the regs to see if you must leave a sex Id part on your animal.....

I know some of you might say well I have the horns right here, well yeah but that doesnt mean someone didn't kill a buck/bull when they only had a doe/cow tag and hide the head and kept the meat to look like they shot their female. Or they shot a female when they only had a male tag. Or you shoot a horned female, ect. There are reasons for it and not such a stupid law if ya think about it but I would consider it to be more of a western law than anythign cuz it involves packin out animals. Also don't make sense for a state such as WI cuz by law we can't butcher any deer until it has been registered.... WCL