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Originally Posted by Donkey Oatey
There is a bit of rose coloured glasses here waxing nostalgically about the metal tags. They were notorious for not locking properly or people half closing them so that they could be reused and you could claim, "I tried locking it, must not have pushed hard enough"
And the cost to make the darn things would be outrageous. I have not had a tag rip or come off, bit of a pain in the cold but wrap them or tuck them under the hide.
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I'll be dating myself, but I was allowed to attend a Fish & Wildlife checkstop west of Benton in the late 80s. Metal tags were still used for general tags. There were more single cab pickups than now.
The officers told us one thing they looked for was game with the leg or head near the rear sliding window. They claimed that some people would put the tag on, but not close it until it locked. If they made it home without being checked they would use the tag on another animal. If going through checkstop, they would reach through slider and close tag.