If meat and head are delivered with tag, no wildlife resource document is necessary. The shooter is covered and you are covered.

I think it is WRD not WMD.

The WRD is needed when you are transporting some partial part of covered wildlife that doesn't include the tagged head, not when you are transporting the entire, tagged animal, so in the case of the neighbor's son's deer, he didn't even have to ride with you when you took the deer back to your house and you won't need a WRD to take it to the processor. You would only need the WRD if the son had kept the heads and tags and you were just taking the meat to the processor.

We were told by gw to have the WRD if the deer was not in possession of the person that tagged it. We often have several different vehicles at camp but only one group has a trailer, ansdd often carries several coolers back, so we asked.

Sig - that gw was certainly not saying what the TPWD site specifically says:

That's the thing with GW's. You can ask 10 GW the same question and get 10 different answers!!

I had our neighbor's kid fill out a WRD, and I'll transport the quartered deer along with the tagged head, to the processor. I believe that we'll be covered, correct?

You filled out a WRD when you didn't need to! No doubt there's a big fine for that! /s

I'll be the first to admit that I don't usually take the doe heads with me to the processor.

Based on all the comments shared, you should covered twice.

Note, that quote indicates "entire carcass" not quartered deer on ice.

redchevy -- here we go again with vaguely stated rules that are open to interpretation. What is an "entire" carcass? I think it is pretty obvious that they meant to include field-dressed deer -- but they aren't "entire". What is a "carcass"? Perhaps a whole deer isn't a carcass; perhaps it has to be field-dressed to become a carcass. And with regard to your comment, I don't think that anything in that rule indicates that an "entire carcass" couldn't be referring to a quartered deer. But I could be wrong.

Just do a half assed job of gutting and throw him in the back of the truck with his head hanging over the tailgate. That way, everyone can see what a bad [censored] hunter you are and the G.W. will wave you thru any checkpoint they have set up.

To answer the OP's original question.

We just had a game Warden last week do a Q&A with a group of youth hunters. This exact question came up. The Warden said to put the tag in a plastic bag, take a knife and slit one of the quarters of meat and push the plastic bag with the tag into the slit in the meat. The tag is now attached to the carcass. Most game wardens are not going to ticket you if the tag is in the cooler, attached to the cooler, attached to a deer head or sex part but if you have an attitude or he has a bad day he can legally ticket you if you have a quartered deer and the tag is not attached to the meat somewhere.

Top of page 65 of the 2013-2014 Outdoor Annual

"Where to Attach Tag to Deer or Turkey"

"The hunting license tag may be attached anywhere on a deer or turkey so that it is not damaged, defaced, or
lost in transporting or handling. For deer, the appropriate tag or applicable permit must remain attached to
the deer until the deer reaches its final destination and is quartered. If the animal is a deer and the head is
severed from the carcass (body), then the appropriate tag or applicable permit must remain attached to the
carcass."

well butter my butt and call me a biscuit

Good question.....

I emailed TP&W this question and they said use the WRD:
You will need to use the attached form: https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdforms/media/pwd_980_l2000_wildlife_resource_document.pdf

If the person who killed the deer is not with you then you will still need a resource document. The hunter gave you the meat and head to transport. You need proof he did that in writing with a WRD. If the GW stops to check you he will assume you killed that deer if you do not have proof otherwise. The hunters license tag is not proof. A MLD permit will work in this instance though as the WRD.

This is the exact same answer the Game Warden also told the youth when he visited our group a couple weeks ago.

“If meat and head are delivered with tag, no wildlife resource document is necessary. The shooter is covered and you are covered.”

Honestly, the WRD is so simple to do just fill it out if you are confused on what to do.