The FWC in its infinite wisdom has changed its rule regarding importation if deer into the state. The previous rule permitted deer from Alabama and Georgia to be brought in to the state of Florida with a permit and reporting with all other deer from all other states having to be deboned. The new rule now requires all deer to be deboned.
Im a Florida resident but I have as much Bama blood in me than any Bama native. I hunt Alabama only an hour from my home. Im not a young man anymore either and I hunt by myself a lot. My lease is in a remote area if I get a deer in the morning, ok I can bone it out but the last thing I want to do in the dark in the middle of the woods is debone a deer after a PM hunt. Also if the deer is one I want to mount I have to use an Alabama taxidermist unless I fully cape it out. So we shall see if I comply or not. The new rule is just over kill

Are you sure about this ??

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Gig.....you killed that deer in Fla...didnt you....The deer aint talking, thats for sure.

Yep. If I just want to quarter up a deer at the camp in AL and take home to finish processing it in FL - has to be deboned. If you want to kill a deer in AL and get the taxidermy done in FL, you don't just have to cape it, you have to get it off of the skull/brains, etc. Up in the midwest, taxidermists do this like the processors do, you can take it to them and they'll get it prepped for legal travel to take to your local taxidermist to finish up. Last year you could go to the website and put your info in and get a permit to print out to carry one in from AL.

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I hunt 20 minutes from my house but in Tennessee. Same laws apply here

States literally are making regulations and laws that are going to drive away hunters or create outlaws. All in the name of "Do something!"

Hunting used to be easy and fun.

When the government overreaches, do what you have to. Friend hunts in Tennessee with same crap, one mile over state-line. Does what he has to. "Law-abidin', but not under O'biden" Use your head, you'll figure it out.

For me it's easy to want to just bring it back, but if you get caught, they'll probably give you a fine and surely confiscate your meat and horns. As far as the meat goes, its pretty easy to bone it out hanging. The only thing that's a pain in the ass is the shoulders. A smaller buck is easy also just cut the skull cap. The problem comes if you kill one you want to mount (which is also the last one you'd want taken away). I guess I'd have to cape and cap it or have somebody in Al mount it. It sucks, but I don't want to risk having a deer confiscated.

Caping isn’t that hard if you have right tools

But it could be a PITA in the dark unless you have good lights

My question is why?????

Where has there been a problem with the way it was done, where are outbreaks????

most deer hunters have no clue how to cape out a buck.

It's gonna put a bad hurtin on Fla taxidermists. Got one back last week. He told me, here you go, this is the last one I can do for you from Al. I told him I guess all my deer are coming from Fl from now on.

If your in my part of Alabama just bring it by and I'll cape it out for you no charge! I will say, I do mount more out of state deer now than ever before.

You don’t need an outbreak. You only need ONE.

Unfortunately, Matt is 100% spot on here.

CWD is much more likely to walk across state lines than to be carried across.
That said, some caution is warranted.

I already deal with this issue now bringing deer in from TN. Been that way for past two seasons. The doe population is going up rapidly. I will not nor will i allow my boys to shoot a doe on my property in TN. Too big of a headache to deal with the processing end to get it back into Alabama. Oh and for those that want to give it a try and sneak one back across the state line into Alabama they are waiting and watching. Wardens have been guarding state line watching. On I65 they position themselves on the overpasses to see down into truck beds and use drones to see i to the truck beds as well. They are issuing tickets for what i have been told to be a $5,000 fine. Not worth it. Me and my boys will just shoot our meat deer in Alabama.

And then what happens with the ONE? Where has it been proven that even ONE case has been brought across state lines from a deer being quartered up on ice in a cooler?

the answer to that is ZERO.....