This is as stupid as the proposed turkey regs for next year.

You aren't reading it right, they're saying sorry, can no longer do the permit process. This is new, look at the dates and read it a little closer:

However, the rule amendments do not include the permit option allowed under FWC Executive Order 19-41 to import whole deer or high-risk parts from properties in Georgia or Alabama provided certain requirements are met.

Tough part for me is that there is not a processor or a taxidermist that I would use anywhere near my camp in Alabama nor on my way home. I debone all my meat anyway so that’s not an issue, but the taxidermy is.

Is it possible to get all brain matter out of a deer you want skull mounted to be in compliance in order to cross state lines?

Demisted beetles

depending on the size of your colony those beetles can clean a deer skull in about two weeks tops

hallb you were right i was wrong. I just called FWC and as of July 1 no deer can be brought into florida from alabama un less its is de boned.

They guy I use has beetles, but he is in FL. So I can’t bring one back from my place in AL to him

Stick a pressure washer inside brain cavity and blow it out. That's all you have to do.

I'm assuming you are meaning after it is boiled. Florida's new transport law is similar to what other states have and it is pretty restrictive:

boned-out meat or products thereof;
clean hides with no tissue or head attached;
antlers, antlers with a clean skull plate with no tissue attached or clean skulls with no tissue attached;
finished taxidermy products; and
clean teeth with no tissue attached.

No, I'm saying if you blow out the brain and brain stem you are good. On the skull portion.

Sounds like a business opportunity to me.

Try getting one home from Texas! Texas law states you can only process and transport your deer in quarters with the bone in while you are in Texas. Louisiana has the same laws as FL, as does MS, meaning no bones. How do you legally cross the LA state line with a deer you took in Texas unless you had a processor process it or the ranch you harvested it on has a cold storage facility with a cold storage log? Do you try to stand on the state line while you de-bone the deer?

That's why I don't hunt anymore. Too much bs.

I don’t think you can bring one back into AL from another state either. Not that I ever plan to...

I can appreciate Matt's response and it is a valid point and an effort to reduce the chances of the spreading of the disease. Hopefully it will give our deer herd more time until when or if they can better understand the disease and figure out a better method to stop it, but basically the restrictions is all they have right now to help control it. So, don't throw any old meat frozen out from other states out back for other animals to eat. Now animals that migrate could spread the disease too. Predators and vultures may be able to feast on carcasses and spread it. I have read all the potential sources of bacteria and viruses that animals like alligators and buzzards carry, so, according to my understanding this mandate only may help to prevent the spread of the disease. Possibly, help more than the wearing of a mask for Covid. The deboning process does not seem to be that complicated if you just debone the front and hind quarters and the back loin. There was a great video online with an experienced guy deboning one in a matter of minutes. If you read about the devastation this disease inflicted on the herds in Iowa and other states you should take upon yourself to help enforce the rule. I have never read or heard about a disease wiping out deer in the U.S. like this one until now!

Like auburn17 I will have to find a new taxidermist which I would rather not. I can debone but I do not know of a taxidermist close to my lease in escambia county, anyone know of one in that area?

Amen Brother

Keith at DG&K does a FINE skull mount. I only use chad cooper for my deer mounts so not sure how I'll make that work?

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I think chad's taxidermy skills have gone down hill. I took a fox to him and it took like 3 years and he screwed up the ears. I wouldn't take anything back to him