Tagging and harvest reporting by state

Applies to: Big game

Deer and turkey hunters must carry a harvest record, on paper or in the Outdoor AL app, record each deer or turkey immediately, and report it through Game Check within 48 hours. A deer report needs the date, county, land type (private or public) and antler point count.

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Applies to: Big game

No single statewide evidence-of-sex rule was located; requirements are species and unit specific. Bear sealing requires the hide, with claws and evidence of sex naturally attached, and the skull. In specified units and periods, 5 AAC 92.220 requires that edible meat of the front and hind quarters remain naturally attached to the bone until transported from the field.

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R12-4-305 requires that evidence of legality remains with the carcass or parts of a carcass of any wildlife that the person possesses, transports, or imports, and that big game has the required valid tag attached in the manner indicated on the tag. Keep the license on your person and the tag affixed during transport. No evidence-of-sex requirement was located.

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Applies to: Deer

Immediately upon taking a deer, and before moving it, fill out the appropriate deer tag from your license legibly and in ink. Check your deer within 12 hours of harvest by phone, web or app. Evidence of the animal's sex must remain until it is checked, and the original tag stays attached until final storage.

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Applies to: Deer

14 CCR 708.7: any person taking any deer in this state shall retain in their possession during the open season thereon and for 15 days thereafter, that portion of the head which in adult males normally bears the antlers, and shall produce the designated portion of the head upon the demand of any officer.

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Applies to: Big game

It is illegal to have or transport a big-game carcass without evidence of sex naturally attached. For a bull elk that means the head with antlers or horns attached to the carcass, or a testicle, scrotum or penis attached; for a cow elk, the head, udder or vulva attached; moose is equivalent. The carcass tag must be securely attached to the carcass, not the head or hide.

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Applies to: Big game

Immediately after harvest, fill out the deer or turkey harvest tag; it must stay with the animal until it is processed, and if you leave the animal the tag must remain with it. Report the harvest online or by phone within 24 hours and write the confirmation number on the tag. Check stations are no longer required, except for replacement tags in Zones 11 and 12 (carcass or head within 72 hours).

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Applies to: Big game

Complete the appropriate section of the Harvest Report Card at the kill site. Physical tags are required only when the animal leaves your immediate possession. Hunters shall not remove the tags from their Harvest Report Cards for any reason.

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Applies to: Big game

Deer and turkey are not tagged at the kill site; instead, punch your paper Harvest Report Card and record the date in ink before moving the animal, then register it within 24 hours online or at 1-855-DEL-HUNT and write the 12-digit registration number on the card. Until registered, you may not cut the meat or remove any part except the internal organs. A Possession Tag is required only if the animal leaves your immediate possession, such as at a processor or taxidermist.

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Applies to: Deer

Log the deer in a harvest log (app, paper, or online) before moving it, then report it within 24 hours, before final processing, before handing it to a processor or taxidermist, or before it leaves the state, whichever comes first. Proof of sex, the skull plate with any attached antlers, must stay with the deer in the field, in camp, and en route until it is cooked or stored at the hunter's home.

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Applies to: Big game

A current harvest record is required; record the date and county on it (paper, online or in the Outdoors GA app) before moving a deer, turkey or bear. Deer, turkey, bear and alligator must be reported through Georgia Game Check within 24 hours, give the confirmation number to any deer processor, and bears must also be presented for tagging.

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Applies to: Big game

Game must be preserved in a condition that will enable the identification of their sex and species, and the head and scrotum may be required to remain attached to the carcass as evidence while in the hunting area.

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Applies to: Big game

Evidence of sex must be left naturally attached to the carcass of any big game animal until the carcass reaches the final place of storage or consumption, or is taken to a commercial meat processing facility. For mountain lion, black bear and wolf this means the largest portion of meat if boned, or the hide.

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Applies to: Deer

Attach and seal the deer’s leg tag immediately upon kill, before the deer is moved, transported or field dressed. Report the harvest by 10 p.m. the same day by phone (1-866-452-4325) or online, and write the confirmation number on the tag. Keep evidence of sex attached: head with antlers or the genitals for a buck, head or udder/vulva for a doe.

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Applies to: Deer

Create a temporary transportation tag immediately after harvest with name, address, deer sex, license number and harvest date. After harvesting a deer, you must check it in with the DNR within 48 hours, via GoOutdoorsIN.com, phone (260) 368-5880, or a check station. The deer's head must stay attached to the body until you have checked in the deer and received your confirmation number.

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Applies to: Big game

Attach the deer transportation tag within 15 minutes of locating the deer after it is taken, or before moving it, so the tag cannot be removed without destroying it. Report the harvest to the DNR by midnight on the day after it is tagged, or before taking it to a processor or taxidermist, and write the confirmation number on the harvest report tag.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer must be tagged immediately and electronically checked before moving the animal or antlers. For antlerless-only permits the head must remain attached during transport unless electronic registration is completed first.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Pheasants being transported must retain a foot, plumage, or some part that identifies the birds as males. Turkeys must have the beard attached unless an e-tag is used or the turkey is registered online.

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Applies to: Big game

Report through Telecheck online or at (800) 245-4263 by midnight on the day the animal is recovered. The harvest log must be completed immediately after harvest. A carcass tag is required if a harvested deer or elk leaves the hunter's possession for any reason. If the hide or head is removed from the carcass before the animal is telechecked, the hunter must demonstrate proof of the sex.

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Applies to: Deer

Before hunting, get carcass or electronic deer tags. Immediately upon harvest, tag the deer before moving it, recording the date and parish, and validate within 72 hours by text-to-tag, the LDWF web portal or LA Wallet, or by phone. Evidence of sex, including the head or sex organs, must stay on the deer while in camp or the field or en route home, until it is tagged and validated.

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Applies to: Big game

Prior to presenting a bear, deer, moose, or wild turkey for registration, a person may not possess or leave that animal in the field or forest unless they have securely attached a plainly visible tag with their name, address, and license number. In transit the animal must be open to view and readily observed from outside the vehicle.

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Applies to: Big game

A person may not keep an unregistered bear, deer, moose, or wild turkey for more than 18 hours after the animal was harvested, extended to 7 days or until departure for trips lodging in unorganized townships. The animal must be presented at the first open registration station for that animal on the hunter's route.

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Applies to: Big game

Before moving a deer or turkey, either field-tag it or check it in at the kill site. Field tags should be made by the hunter and include harvest date, county of kill, hunter's name and DNRid number, or a confirmation number and hunter's name if the animal has been checked in. The tag attaches to the deer's head or the turkey's leg.

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Applies to: Big game

Before moving a deer or turkey, attach a field tag with the harvest date, county and your name and DNRid, or check it in at the kill site and keep the confirmation number. Every deer and turkey must be registered within 24 hours (MD Outdoors app, online or 888-800-0121), even by license-exempt hunters, and a deer may not be skinned or cut up until the confirmation number is received.

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The tag must be attached immediately. Hunters who harvest a deer, bear, coyote, fox, or turkey must report or check their game within 48 hours of killing the animal, through MassFishHunt or at a check station.

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Deer and turkey harvest reporting is mandatory within 72 hours of harvest or before transferring possession, online at Michigan.gov/DNRHarvestReport or via the Michigan DNR Hunt Fish app.

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Applies to: Bear

Within 72 hours of harvest, take the unfrozen, undivided bear head and hide, or the entire animal, to a DNR registration station.

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Applies to: Deer

Minnesota no longer uses physical carcass tags for deer. Before moving the deer, validate the harvest at the kill site in the MN DNR Licensing app or on your paper license, then register it within 48 hours and before it is processed.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Wild Turkey Game Check is required by law and requires all hunters in Mississippi to report their harvest before 10 p.m. on the day of harvest.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer Game Check is voluntary, with the exception of the Velvet Season, which requires all harvests to be reported by 10 p.m. the day of harvest. Tagging and evidence of sex requirements were not verified.

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Applies to: Big game

Immediately after harvesting a deer or turkey you must notch your permit, and attach a leg tag if the animal is left unattended. You must Telecheck your deer or turkey by 10 p.m. on the day of harvest, before processing your game, or before you leave the state, whichever comes first. Before Telecheck only the person who harvested the animal may possess and transport it.

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Applies to: Big game

MCA 87-6-406: a person who kills a game animal in this state shall retain evidence of the sex of the animal with the carcass until it is processed. This does not apply where the license permits either sex. In antler or horn size restricted districts, hunters must retain the antlers or horns until the carcass is processed.

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Applies to: Big game

Right after harvesting big game, punch or notch the permit or tag to show sex and date of kill. The canceled permit must be attached to the animal or stay with the hunter while the carcass is in the hunter's possession until check-in, and a deer, antelope or elk carcass may not be cut smaller than quarters before check-in. Keep the permit and check-in seal or verification number when transporting the meat.

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Applies to: Big game

The tag must be validated by punching notches identifying the animal's physical characteristics, including sex and antler points, and must be firmly attached to the carcass and remain with the main portion of the meat at or before the time the hunter reaches their transportation or camp and until it is processed. It is also unlawful to disguise the sex characteristics of a harvested animal.

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Applies to: Deer

The tag must be immediately detached, filled out and attached to the deer. Register the deer online or at the closest open registration station within 24 hours. In-person registration is required during the first 2 days of muzzleloader season and the first 3 days of firearms season.

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Applies to: Deer

Complete the transportation tag with your name, CID number, harvest date, zone and unit, weapon type and antler category, and keep it with the deer. Report every deer by 10 p.m. on the day of harvest through the Automated Harvest Report System online or at (855) 448-6865. The confirmation number must be written on the tag and kept with the deer and its parts.

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Applies to: Fishing

New Jersey's freshwater fishing rules set no general requirement to tag or report fish you keep. You may not tag or mark and release a fish without a fish stocking permit or special permit from NJDEP Fish & Wildlife.

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Hunters must keep proof of sex with all game species, except javelina, until the game has been transported where it will be consumed or stored. For big game and turkey, a properly notched carcass tag or handwritten E-Tag must remain with the meat.

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Applies to: Big game

Fill in and sign a paper carcass tag immediately and attach it on arrival at camp, home, or vehicle; with an e-tag, answer the report questions in the HuntFishNY app right away. Report the harvest within 48 hours online, by phone, or in the app. If the head is removed for transport, evidence of sex must stay intact.

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Applies to: Big game

Before moving the animal from the site of kill, where the animal fell, validate the appropriate animal block on your paper Big Game Harvest Report Card by punching or cutting the corresponding day and month. This is required for bear, deer and wild turkey.

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Applies to: Big game

Report before any of the following: the animal is skinned, dressed, or dismembered for consumption, the animal is left unattended, the animal is placed in the possession of another person, or 12 p.m. noon the day following the harvest. When the animal goes to a processor, taxidermist, Hunters for the Hungry, or another person, the authorization number must be attached to the carcass.

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Applies to: Big game

Immediately after the kill, cut out the month and day on the license tag and attach it to the base of an antler on antlered deer or through a slit in the ear on antlerless deer. The head must accompany the carcass or boned meat to the final place of storage, unless you take time-stamped photos of the whole tagged animal and a close-up of the readable tag; if you leave the head, cut off the tagged ear or antler and keep it with the meat.

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Fill in the deer or turkey permit at harvest, before moving the animal, with date, time and county; doing it in the HuntFish OH app also counts. Deer must be game-checked by noon the day after the kill (11:30 p.m. the same day if taken on the season's last day); turkeys by 11:30 p.m. the day of the kill. Once you leave the game unattended, the completed permit, tag or confirmation code must be attached.

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Evidence of sex must remain naturally attached to the carcass until the harvest has been properly reported. A field tag with name, customer ID, and date and time of harvest must be attached immediately. Deer, elk, antelope and turkey must be checked within 24 hours before processing. No person may transport a loaded firearm in a land or water motor vehicle.

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Applies to: Big game

OAR 635-065-0765: hunters must possess evidence of sex, being either the animal's head with antlers or horns, or a reproductive organ, meaning testicle, penis, udder or vulva, attached to a major portion of meat.

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Applies to: Big game

Big game must be tagged immediately after harvest and before the carcass is moved, with the tag on the ear of a deer or bear or on the body of an elk, and it must stay attached until processed. Report deer and turkey within 10 days (five days for mentored hunters or anyone using a homemade tag). Bear and elk must be taken to a Game Commission check station within 24 hours.

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Applies to: Bear

Bear must be checked by the Game Commission within 24 hours at a designated check station.

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Applies to: Big game

Elk must be brought to the Game Commission elk check station at the Elk Country Visitor Center in Benezette within 24 hours. Mistake kills must be reported to a game warden immediately but no later than 24 hours.

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Applies to: Deer

Once you harvest a deer, you must notch your tag (day, hour and month of harvest) before moving the deer for photos, field dressing or to leave the woods. You must report your deer harvest within 24 hours. Deer taken in the first two days of the muzzleloader and shotgun seasons must be physically checked at a state-operated station, with certain islands excepted.

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Applies to: Deer

All deer must be tagged immediately after harvest before moving from the point of kill, and the tag must remain attached until the deer or carcass is quartered or received by a processor. All harvested deer must be reported using the SC Game Check system by midnight of the day of harvest. Possessing any deer with the head detached while in transit from the point of kill is prohibited.

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Applies to: Big game

Tags must be signed, dated by notching, and securely attached to the big game animal before transport. Hunters must transport the animal's head or hind quarter with visible sex organs, except those with any deer or any elk licenses if the tagged leg accompanies the animal.

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Applies to: Big game

Tag big game before moving it, either by attaching a paper tag or by tagging and checking it in electronically with the TWRA On The Go app. Big game must be checked in by midnight on the day of harvest and before it is gifted or leaves the state, and the harvest confirmation number must be available for inspection until final processing. Evidence of species, sex and antlered status must stay with the animal while afield.

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Applies to: Big game

Proof of sex for buck deer is the head, skinned or unskinned, with antlers attached, or the tail and unskinned skull cap with antlers attached. For pronghorn it is the unskinned head. Proof of sex must remain attached until the animal reaches its final destination and is processed, with limited exceptions for a taxidermist receipt or a Wildlife Resource Document.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Turkey proof of sex is one leg including the spur, or a patch of skin with breast feathers and beard attached, for gobblers; for bearded hens it is a patch of skin with breast feathers and beard attached.

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Applies to: Big game

The head or sex organs of the animal you have taken must remain attached to the largest portion of its carcass, and your tag must remain with the largest portion of the animal's meat.

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Applies to: Big game

A big game animal must immediately be tagged when taken. The tag shall be placed on the carcass in a location that is open to view and shall remain there during possession and transportation. A person taking big game shall within 48 hours report the taking and exhibit the carcass to the nearest game warden or official Fish and Wildlife Department Reporting Station.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer and bear must be field dressed prior to reporting. Deer taken in the regular firearms season must be reported at official stations, while archery and muzzleloader deer and turkey may be reported online.

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Applies to: Big game

All hunters, unless license exempt, killing a bear, deer, elk, or turkey are required to validate an appropriate tag prior to moving the animal in any way. Reporting is due upon vehicle transport of the carcass or at the conclusion of legal hunting hours, whichever occurs first and without unnecessary delay, by calling (866) 468-4263, using the GoOutdoors Virginia site, or using eNotch in the app.

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Applies to: Big game

WAC 220-413-090: evidence of sex means the head with antlers or horns attached, or penis or testes of male big game animals, or the head or udder of female big game animals. It must remain naturally attached to at least one quarter of the carcass or the largest meat portion until processing or final storage. A taxidermist receipt showing species and sex satisfies it.

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Applies to: Deer

Before moving a deer, attach a completed field tag to it, or stay with the deer while carrying the completed tag. Register the deer electronically (online, at a license agent, or by phone) within 72 hours of the kill or 24 hours after the season closes, whichever comes first, and attach the 13-digit confirmation number with your name and address. Anyone carrying a deer killed by another hunter needs a paper tag with that hunter's details and confirmation number.

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Applies to: Deer

Not verified. Deer must be registered through GameReg by 5 p.m. the day after the carcass is recovered, using your harvest authorization number (in-person stations may also be available). Carcass tag and evidence-of-sex requirements were not confirmed. Confirm with the official regulations before you hunt.

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Applies to: Big game

The carcass coupon shall be signed, dated and attached to the carcass of any big game or wild turkey in such a manner as to be plainly visible before leaving the site of the kill. In sex-restricted areas, either the visible external sex organs, head or antlers shall accompany the carcass or edible portions thereof.

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