Thing with this law is its nearly impossible to enforce unless the finder admits it was dead in nd or there are photos of the deer from that year. If you find a dead deer out of state there are no laws against keeping it so they would have to prove it's from nd and less then three months old or they are shit out of luck. They set the law up so dumb they more or less screwed themselves over.
When they passed the law requiring the tag to stay with the horns forever I asked Dean Hildebrand a question at the G&F advisory meeting in Bowbells.
I. how will you tell if a deer was shot 5 years after this law goes into effect or 1 year before it 10 years from now.
He claimed it would never be used for something like that.
Two winters later I was at an archery shop in Minot and a warden was leaving. The guy inside was pissed because he had to find pics to prove a set of horns he had on the wall there had been shot when he said it was before this law because the tag was not with them. These laws will be used in ways those passing them never thought about?