CWD Management Zone Head Submission SE MN

So maybe someone on here can answer this question for me. I have combed the regs and internet but cannot find my answer. So if you shoot a buck during archery season you are required to submit it for testing. Which means that you need take your head to a station and drop it off. So do you get the head back so you can have the skull for your European mount? What happens to the heads? I know if you would like a full mount you can take it to an authorized taxidermist that they will take the sample for you so the cape is not ruined for mounting purposes.

I have not been through this whole process yet but suspect that could change in the next few days.

Thanks,
RVRDUX

So I have another question. What do you do with your tag when you send the head in. Does it go with the head or does it go with you meat?
Also this means that you cannot do European mounts yourself?

Sorry this whole process is pissing me off.

Thanks,
RVRDUX

If your head tests negative for CWD then you can take it back.

The following parts of deer may leave the CWD control zone before a “not detected” test result is confirmed:

Quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached; the main leg bone can remain in each quarter
Meat that is boned out or that is cut and wrapped (either commercially or privately)
Hides and teeth
Antlers or clean (no brain tissue attached) skull plates with antlers attached

The deer (brains, spinal column, etc.) must stay within the CWD Management zone until CWD test is complete. However, there is a list of taxidermists with the CWD zone partnering with the DNR to collect samples. So if you wish to have a shoulder mount, find a taxidermist within the zone and have them send the lymph nodes to the DNR for testing.

If you want a European mount – I don’t believe they will be sending you the antlers back if you submit the head in the bin for testing. If it’s during gun season, they will take the lymph nodes at the testing station, the head must remain in the CWD zone until the test is negative, or again… take it to a taxidermist within the CWD zone.

This is getting out of hand. Game departments and biologists love to justify their jobs. Show me even one instance of a herd decimated by cwd (other than government hired shooters)… I’ll wait

ajw wrote:

This is getting out of hand. Game departments and biologists love to justify their jobs. Show me even one instance of a herd decimated by cwd (other than government hired shooters)… I’ll wait

Careful now or you’ll be joining me on the cwd schnit list. But you’re absolutely right.

It’s a complete joke. Try out if state hunting. I ask the MN DNR if I get my buck tested out of state and it comes back negative, can I then bring it back? Their answer was no. They can’t trust what other states use for CWD testing…I guess the MN DNR has the ultimate CWD testing program

And what deer head that you want mounted is going to come into contact with a live deer?

Regulate game farms better and this wouldn’t even be an issue. Double fence them farms.

Wyoming regulations do not allow a deer killed in Wyoming to leave the state with brain and spinal cord tissue in the deer. So, if you guys from Minnesota hunted in Wyoming and took a whole deer home with the brain and spinal cord intact, you violated Wyoming Hunting Regulations.

Buffalo Fishhead

Can I take a harvested deer from CWD management zone 645 to CWD management zone 646 before I get the CWD test cleared? Is zone to zone movement ok within the management zones?