For Goodness Sake, Pay The Man

[C.Killmaster]

Unless you know them, to heck with a down payment! Have them pay it all up front. No pay, no service. @C.Killmaster I thought the hunter bringing the meat had to provide his hunting license information? And if he don't have it, you can't legally process the meat? I'm sure a lot of small businesses won't ask for this info for fear of losing business, but I thought they were required by law to do so?

The hunter must provide their name, date of harvest, county of kill, and the Game Check confirmation number to the processor.

 

[kayaksteve]

Would a hunter abandoning his meat at a processor be considered wanton waste?

 

[C.Killmaster]

Would a hunter abandoning his meat at a processor be considered wanton waste?

No, the requirement is to make a reasonable effort to retrieve which would already be satisfied by taking possession of the deer.

 

[Deplorable Birdhunter]

This is a biproduct of yuppie trophy hunters!

 

[mizzippi jb]

I pay whatever the Taxidermists requests.

I pay him more than he requests

 

[NCMTNHunter]

My uncle is a taxidermist. He says the worst is when someone brings in their kids first deer and wants it mounted. If it’s a small buck he says they almost never come back for them. He also says that grown men will bring in small bucks to get mounted and when they do pick them up they accuse him of doing something to make the buck smaller. They kill a buck that is 15” wide, they spend all year telling their buddies it was 19” wide, then they’re disappointed that it has dried to 14”. Then they don’t want to pay.

 

[tcward]

My processor sells the abandoned meat.
I don’t know if it’s legal, but I don’t blame him.

You are basically paying for the processing

 

[rugerfan]

I just think it is a waste of a deer to just shoot it for the antlers and then leave the meat at the processor and don't want to pay for it. I guess I would have to agree with the " yuppie trophy hunter" comment.

The two processors I have used over the last 2 seasons have complained about people not coming to get their meat. One of them told me last year that he may stop allowing people to take the antlers until the meat is paid for. As of right now he charges 20 dollars for a gut fee, 50 dollars for caping them out (must be paid before the cape job).

 

[Silver Britches]

Not sure if/why having information such as the hunter's license would help the processer collect the money due them. All processers I have ever use had al least your phone number so they could call you once the meat was ready. How would more information help the processer get paid?

I was just wanting to know if the hunter info was required or not.

 

[antharper]

I stopped by my local processor a week after season was over to see if he had any for a lady I work with . He said he did have quite a few but they were gone in a couple days .

 

[treadwell]

Years ago a guy in the club I WAS in killed a doe and her two little ones. Drove into camp and within 15 minutes was asking if anyone wanted them!!!! This is the kind of folks that abandon the meat at the processor.

 

[rugerfan]

Years ago a guy in the club I WAS in killed a doe and her two little ones. Drove into camp and within 15 minutes was asking if anyone wanted them!!!! This is the kind of folks that abandon the meat at the processor.

I would hope that someone in the club asked him why he shot them.

 

[treadwell]

I did. He just laughed. He got kicked out because of it.

 

[doenightmare]

Processors can sell unclaimed deer to the public for the cost of the processing fee as Kmax said. I have a neighbor that buys one every year. Loves venison but don't hunt.

 

[furtaker]

Years ago a guy in the club I WAS in killed a doe and her two little ones. Drove into camp and within 15 minutes was asking if anyone wanted them!!!! This is the kind of folks that abandon the meat at the processor.

And the kind of folks who shouldn't be hunting.

 

[transfixer]

The hunter must provide their name, date of harvest, county of kill, and the Game Check confirmation number to the processor.

many ,, or most processors don't ever ask for that, one I used last year I offered all that up,,, and they said , and I quote " we don't need that "

 

[Meriwether Mike]

If I was a processor I would create a database of names with unpaid balances and collect for any unpaid fees the next year before he could drop another one off. If you run off a customer who refuses to pay you did not lose much anyway.

 

[jiminbogart]

Why don't they just demand payment up front? Then give them "X" number of days to pick the deer up?

Seems like common sense to me.

 

[Meriwether Mike]

To punish the honest folk due to those who cheat the system is passive aggressive. Punish the cheaters. Not the honest folk. When the non payers have no place to drop off a deer they will change their habits.

 

[jiminbogart]

To punish the honest folk due to those who cheat the system is passive aggressive.

Asking for payment up front is not "punishing the honest folks".

I pay up front every time I order something off the internet. I never felt like I was being punished.