We live in Florida but own property above Andalusia. We have been following this new law all season but it makes it tough when you kill one at dark and have to completely clean him up there before you head home. It used to be nice when we could toss the deer in the back of the truck and clean him the next morning at home.

All you have to do is call Chad if you kill one in Alabama. He has a set up where he will meet you near the Alabama line and process the deer there before he transports it to his shop.

Pretty sure the Iowa issue 7-8 years ago was a ridiculously bad EHD outbreak, not CWD.

Why not just have it processed in AL?

I see a new shirt!

This is one of the benefits of driving your wife's car to the camp.

Deer don't get seen in the trunk.

Processing isn’t the issue for me, I de-bone everything anyway so I’m legal to cross state line with the meat. My concern is the taxidermy side of it, specifically skull mount.

With that being said there is not a processor between my camp and my house. I would have to drive 30 miles out of the way to get to a processor.

We had to find a taxidermist in KY for Euros. I don’t like shoulder mounts. My son killed a buck one trip, and the local taxidermist was not home and wouldn’t answer his phone. Delayed us coming home 8-10 hours after scrambling for options.

Deal with hunting in Indiana it ain't that big of deal really we generally use a processor up there and pick it up when we go back or we got a buddy up that will let us use his skinning pole to skin debone and cape

That’s what I do. I have 2 deer done immediately to take back home and have others done later to save freezer space and get my processor to ship it to me. Works great plus I got sick of my old FL processor’s stupid rules and constant whining on Facebook about lack of supplies and making an appointment. Idiot.

So how long does it take to determine results if one is tested?

I’ve killed a few bull elk from a hot zone in Colorado over 20 years ago and was required to take in for testing. Best I recall the results were immediate and we were released with the entire head/scull in tact to bring home. Thousands upon thousands of elk and deer have been brought into this area in this manner from CWD hot zones.
I don’t know how they would have handled with a positive test.

Correct, bad EHD outbreak in 2012, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. We had a bad drought that year.

Smile. The next step is to require you to do ALL this in the field, and leave all skin, skull, bones placed neatly in the spot where it fell.
Can't take anything to your truck or home except meat and horn. Try that one sometime.