Deer Check Stations Push on the Horizon?

[melody]

SCO 638 By Alloway. Reduces the reporting time for big game kills from 10 days to 24 hours to aid in the deer management process throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.


* January 26, 2015 03:55 PM
* Sen. Richard Alloway
* Reduce Reporting Time for Big Game
* In the near future, I will be introducing legislation to reduce the
* reporting time for big game kills from 10 days to 24 hours to aid in
* the deer management process throughout the Commonwealth of
* Pennsylvania.
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* Currently, each licensed person who kills any big game shall,
* immediately after the killing and before removing the big game from the
* location of the killing, fully complete the proper game kill tag in
* compliance with the instructions printed on the tag and attach only the
* game kill tag to the big game. The attached kill tag shall remain on
* the big game until such time as the big game is processed for
* consumption or prepared for mounting.
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* In any year in which the Pennsylvania Game Commission establishes
* check stations, each person shall, within 24 hours after killing any
* big game, present the big game for examination and tagging. Currently
* the law states that within 10 days of the kill, the person shall report
* the killing of big game as required in the manner or methods prescribed
* by the Commission.
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* My legislation would propose that the reporting time for big game be
* changed from 10 days to 24 hours.

[Dutch]

Simpleton.

[Deleted]

Yep that's gonna make guys report their harvest.

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Jan 28, 2015 10:16:35 GMT -5 Dutch said:

Simpleton.

Stop being so nice, dutch. badday

[galthatfishes]

We kind of already have check stations- field checks at processors. They compare the number of deer marked (reported harvest) to the number of deer recaptured (processors; field checks) and come up with a statistical analysis of overall kill.

Its a simple modified Lincoln Peterson index.

The calculation looks quite complicated; but it truly is not. If you can multiply and divide; you can do it.

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So, what happens when you're at deer camp for the week, you score on the first day, and you have no cell coverage, no wifi, no landline, no mail?

I guess if you're a bureaucrat in H-burg, these places don't exist......

[Dutch]

Jan 28, 2015 12:07:51 GMT -5 @rkeving said:

So, what happens when you're at deer camp for the week, you score on the first day, and you have no cell coverage, no wifi, no landline, no mail?

I guess if you're a bureaucrat in H-burg, these places don't exist......

Oh now, stop making sense.

[Dutch]

Jan 28, 2015 11:06:56 GMT -5 @muttleysgone said:

Jan 28, 2015 10:16:35 GMT -5 Dutch said:

Simpleton.

Stop being so nice, dutch. badday

Now I'm being chided for being a nice person? LOL

[bawanajim]

Just a way to make criminals out of honest folks, kind of like Jimmy Carter and the 55 mph speed limit.

If I recover a deer at or after dark, I'm certainly not taking time of work the next day to take it any where.To the guys that take their deer to a butcher this might become a problem, but for most once the deers hanging in the barn the only place its going is the freezer.

[TusseyMtman]

I don't see check stations coming in PA. I actually wonder a bit why we even have bear check stations.

[Muab Dib]

'Cause bear are "special".... stirthepot

Muab

[zimmerstutzen]

Hmmm, What planet is he from. As I recall Virginia had mandatory deer check stations. So a guy that shoots his deer on the back forty, is going to pack it in the car and drive thirty miles with it to be checked? A lot of country boys forgot about the trip to the station in Virginny.

Besides who is going to "man" the check stations with the limited manpower that exists now. Could be a cold day in you know before the PGC has money to blow on that.