When I hunted private land, I didn' t want to drag the extra 30 pounds...Now I hunt public land and the first one was field dressed, well. The biologist assigned to that WMA tore me a new one...he said the state wants live weight, not dressed weight. Now I gotsta drag it all out, let the biologist weigh the deer, remove the jaw so he can properly age the deer, and let the other people gawk and say wow, that one will weigh 140...150. They average 120 down here, guts and all. Then drag it back into the woods, and gut it.