Well ya can bet, I will not be digging a 3 ft whole...without a backhole.

Now I am wondering about road kill. Since those belong to the state does that mean they have to go and bury each one 3' deep or haul it to an approved land fill??

This is about as silly as the Zebra Mussel regulations forcing people to wipe down their boats and trailers before they leave the ramp so they dont spread the Mussels to other water bodies all while flushing billions of gallons of that same water down stream through dams and spill ways.

"The new regulations, which will take effect during the upcoming hunting season, will allow hunters to debone a carcass at the site of harvest, provided proof of sex and tags are maintained until the hunter reaches the final destination. By leaving the unused parts at the site of harvest, the chance of spreading CWD to other parts of the state is greatly reduced. Meat from each deboned carcass must remain in whole muscle groups (i.e. not chopped, sliced or ground) and maintained in a separate bag, package or container until reaching the final destination."

I welcome this since I process my own deer anyway. I will now hang my deer in camp to debone and bag the meat without quartering. And set the bags of meat in the ice box or cooler until I leave for home. I will be a lot more efficient to be able to debone the meat with it hanging at camp than it ever was at home one quarter at a time. I don't see any red tape with that.

After reading the article, it is great that TP&W allows us to trim down to the whole mussels is a good thing. I don't see any problems so far.

You must be talkin' 'bout coastal deer.

Can a live deer get CWD from the carcass of an infected deer? Have there been other info from TPW other than this information?

CWD positive deer can shed the prions into the environment, meaning soil and then plants can take them in. The deer could then eat the plats an have the prions in them.

Just put your bones in the trash they are saying or leave them at the kill site. You can bury them if no commercial trash service.

Bone it out at camp has been my favorite way for years. Guts, hide, bones all stay on the place for the critters or go back into the dirt for future growth just as when an animal dies in nature. Shoulders are the only part I do not bone out at site most of the time. In Mississippi that has been the way for years and bringing deer back from there there to Texas have documentation that the meat was harvested in another state.

I can bone out one at least twice as fast hanging opposed to quartering then taking home for that chore.

Plus like Bobo pointed out if you do take it to the processor no charge for boning it out.