Tag Cutting

[vincentcui]

Folks, just wondering if you are hunting with a group and if your group harvests an animal, should the person who pulls the trigger cut his tag, or the canceled tag can come from any group members who are physically present when the animal was killed? And what about youth licence, the kids don't have bag limit anyway?

[Livewire322]

I'm surprised that someone such as yourself, being a reasonably seasoned hunter from BC, would need to ask such a question.

The answer is given under #1 and #2 of the "It's Unlawful" section of the hunting synopsis (page 11)/

"It's unlawful:
- to be in possession of a big game animal without a properly cancelled species license... Any person who kills any big game species must immediately after the kill and before handling the big game killed, cancel the appropriate species license in accordance with the instruction on that license.
- to use another person's license or to loan or transfer any license under any circumstance."

[dmaxtech]

A youth hunter would cancel the tag of the supervising adult hunter. Same goes for an adult hunting on an introductory license. Just because youth don't have tags doesn't mean they don't have a bag limit.

[RyoTHC]

Folks, just wondering if you are hunting with a group and if your group harvests an animal, should the person who pulls the trigger cut his tag, or the canceled tag can come from any group members who are physically present when the animal was killed? And what about youth licence, the kids don't have bag limit anyway?

I’ll grab the popcorn for this one.

[moosinaround]

Folks, just wondering if you are hunting with a group and if your group harvests an animal, should the person who pulls the trigger cut his tag,YES, its the law or the canceled tag can come from any group members who are physically present when the animal was killed?NO, that is unlawful And what about youth licence, the kids don't have bag limit anyway?Kids bag limit goes under the supervising licenced hunter,

moosinaround

[vincentcui]

To everyone who is surprised I asked the question, the reason why I asked is:

- My son turns 10-year-old this year;
- Both he and I put in for LEH;
- With a youth license, my son does not have bag limit and must cancel my tag;
- With a regular license, my son has his own bag limit and can use his tag;
- In the rare case that both he and I drew the same species LEH, I will buy both him and I a species license.

[vincentcui]

I'm surprised that someone such as yourself, being a reasonably seasoned hunter from BC, would need to ask such a question.

The answer is given under #1 and #2 of the "It's Unlawful" section of the hunting synopsis (page 11)/

"It's unlawful:
- to be in possession of a big game animal without a properly cancelled species license... Any person who kills any big game species must immediately after the kill and before handling the big game killed, cancel the appropriate species license in accordance with the instruction on that license.
- to use another person's license or to loan or transfer any license under any circumstance."

This does not really answer the question if you consider the scenario in red:
- " It's unlawful to be in possession of a big game animal without a properly cancelled species license... Any person who kills any big game species must immediately after the kill and before handling the big game killed, cancel the appropriate species license in accordance with the instruction on that license". If my friend and I hunt deer, he shoots first and the deer is injured, I track the deer and shoot it again so it's dead. We will cut a tag immediately but "WHOSE tag should we cut" is the question.
- to use another person's license or to loan or transfer any license under any circumstance." Same scenario as above, and I am pretty sure in my original post I specified the hunters are hunting together in a group so both of them are on the kill site; it's not to cancel someone else's tag remotely.

[KodiakHntr]

This does not really answer the question if you consider the scenario in red:
- " It's unlawful to be in possession of a big game animal without a properly cancelled species license... Any person who kills any big game species must immediately after the kill and before handling the big game killed, cancel the appropriate species license in accordance with the instruction on that license". If my friend and I hunt deer, he shoots first and the deer is injured, I track the deer and shoot it again so it's dead. We will cut a tag immediately but "WHOSE tag should we cut" is the question.
- to use another person's license or to loan or transfer any license under any circumstance." Same scenario as above, and I am pretty sure in my original post I specified the hunters are hunting together in a group so both of them are on the kill site; it's not to cancel someone else's tag remotely.

As the law is written, in that scenario, your friend wounded a deer. YOU killed a deer. Your tag gets cut, not his.

In BC, whoever fires the killing shot, killed the animal. Whoever killed the animal, cuts their tag.

Doesn’t matter if you want to try and find a loophole, the law is pretty clear the way it is written, whomever kills the animal, cuts the tag. If you don’t have a tag and try to “end the animals suffering” if it is wounded by someone else, then the way the law is written you are breaking the law and run the risk of being charged. BC doesn’t have any allowances for “doing the right thing” or finishing a rodeo, it’s purely if you killed it, you tag it. If you don’t have a tag, either don’t shoot or learn to keep your mouth shut.

[vincentcui]

As the law is written, in that scenario, your friend wounded a deer. YOU killed a deer. Your tag gets cut, not his.

In BC, whoever fires the killing shot, killed the animal. Whoever killed the animal, cuts their tag.

Doesn’t matter if you want to try and find a loophole, the law is pretty clear the way it is written, whomever kills the animal, cuts the tag. If you don’t have a tag and try to “end the animals suffering” if it is wounded by someone else, then the way the law is written you are breaking the law and run the risk of being charged. BC doesn’t have any allowances for “doing the right thing” or finishing a rodeo, it’s purely if you killed it, you tag it. If you don’t have a tag, either don’t shoot or learn to keep your mouth shut.

This scenario happened to me in Haida Gwaii in 2015 but the result was different. CO checked my dad's vehicle as we drove back to the camp. CO asked why the deer has a shot on it's neck and rib, I said I did a follow up shot after my dad shot the rib first. My dad's tag was cut, and the CO did not ask why I didn't cut my tag even though I delivered the kill shot.

[Muledeercrazy2]

As the law is written, in that scenario, your friend wounded a deer. YOU killed a deer. Your tag gets cut, not his.

In BC, whoever fires the killing shot, killed the animal. Whoever killed the animal, cuts their tag.

Doesn’t matter if you want to try and find a loophole, the law is pretty clear the way it is written, whomever kills the animal, cuts the tag. If you don’t have a tag and try to “end the animals suffering” if it is wounded by someone else, then the way the law is written you are breaking the law and run the risk of being charged. BC doesn’t have any allowances for “doing the right thing” or finishing a rodeo, it’s purely if you killed it, you tag it. If you don’t have a tag, either don’t shoot or learn to keep your mouth shut.

not relevant here, but I believe a licensed guide can dispatch a wounded animal for his client, and obviously the tag would need to be cancelled appropriately.