Originally Posted By: yotetrapper
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Originally Posted By: Gotcha1
I can assure you that tags will help nail some poachers/road hunters in our area. When they say they killed deer in the daytime, it won't matter when they say they killed it. It would be a citation after 3. One person killing 14 bucks in a year, an observant GW could get them on that anyway. Hell there are new ones laying in the back of some trucks every morning during late January. And tie the tags back to the license #.
And while I'm on a roll, make shooting into someone's property from the road RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT. It would be like shooting into a house. I'd say $5000 and 30 days. And if it happens again, it would be a ban from hunting, confiscation of firearms, and vehicle, along with the above. (sorry to stray from the tag deal on this little paragraph)


I just want to throw a little info in here...

Had the Gamecheck system been fully implemented and made mandatory we would have had roughly the same thing as a physical tag system. If I checked someone with a deer they would have had to record it on the harvest record and report it on Gamecheck. I could have, still can, run the hunters name or hunting license number and see if they had reported a deer, what date the deer was taken, buck or doe, ect. Tags, harvest record, physical checkin station, whatever...you will always have poachers. And in my opinion tags are no more enforceable than the Gamecheck system we had/have.


You are right about the Gamecheck doing more or less the same thing as tags. The only downfall to the gamecheck system is 2 things.
1) Not everybody has a cell phone, like my 78 year old papaw. He does carry his license with him so he would have his tags handy.
2) Some places we hunt have no phone service. Technically gamecheck required you to call it in and write it down before moving the animal. Might be hard to do with no service.

I like what gamecheck is trying to accomplish, it's on the right path, but tags would require less technical skills and help the ones who don't carry a cell phone.
No system will ever completely stop poachers.