Tags could be free with a "Make your own" deal. Use a wide plastic zip-tie and Sharpie, a strip of duct tape and sharpie, whatever. Wrap it around the antler or poke it through the ear or leg.

Ohio DNR has a pretty good setup and hunters make their own tags but still call in for a confirmation number. I've done it and it's easy. Oklahoma is the same way. No cost for tags. You get your ass in a sling if you get caught without a tag and folks know it.

Go here and scroll down to Tagging & Checking:

http://wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/hunting...ing-regulations/deer-hunting-regulations

what ????? we pose to report how many we kill ?????

On deer, according to the answers here, the compliance is about 90%. Sgtred awhile back said he was not seeing out of compliance GC, if I remember correctly. Maybe he will elaborate again on what he saw. Maybe his 30%-35% is actually 85%-90% and he is frustrated with people doing what he has asked but not telling him what he wanted to hear.

I still don't understand the percentage. If 240,000 deer are killed and 80,000 are reported, that is 33% compliance. But if you already know 240,000 deer where killed, YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT NUMBER TO GET THE PERCENTAGE, why are you looking for how many deer are killed. You already know.

3 reported deer 2 turkeys reported as well

One buck this year and one buck last year, phoned both of them in to GC.

I have reported all of my kills since the program first began and was Voluntary.
I do not think that the requested information has any biological importance at all, though.

The few people I know who don’t report them are not hardened poachers......they are older gentlemen who have hunted their whole lives and do not get on the computer or use smart phones.

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That's the whole point. They don't know how many deer was killed. And therefore they don't know the percentage of compliance. A few folks in the Dept are trying desperately to get the number up close to what they've been dramatically overestimating for years.

I killed 2 deer , my wife killed 2 , and my daughter killed 1. All were reported using the App with no problems at all.

So, what you are saying is his estimate of approx. 240000 deer killed the season before is way wrong. From that he concluded 30%-35% complied. Using a bogus number of 240000 as you contend can NEVER produce anything but a failure of GC? Now, if he had used 100000, GC would be hitting around 78%-82% in the first 2 years and an instant success. Therfor, the number he used, which I have no clue if it's right or wrong, has created the perception of GC failure. So he created that failing perception himself, no one else.

We should have never been given any numbers but what was reported. No percentages, no nothing. Let the hunters think what they want about percentages but don't endorse your own systems failure. Just each year say we are not where we want to be, a lot of work to be done, but we will get there. I would go thank all those who reported. Keep up the good work.

I wonder if or how they come up with the number of incidental takes that involve car bumpers? You have to think that is a significant cause of mortality for the deer herd on a yearly basis. Do they actually research the insurance claims, or do they just guess that number too?

I definitely checked mine in at alabama outdoor.com. Then screenshot confirmation numbers. I encouraged others to check theirs in also.

Stop using logic, lol.

3 kills, all reported

Comply with the regulation. Yes. Like it. No.

I am guessing that you will find more people on this site complying than the state average.

I'm going to guess that the people who dont report them are more than likely not going to comment and say they didnt.

I was blessed to shoot two bucks and three does. Reported all 5 deer.

No big deal to me to do so.

Takes only a few minutes of time, we are supposed to do it and I try my best to abide by our state laws and regulations.

i did not report the ones i didn't kill lol

this^^^^^^^^.

Ok, so for the most part, NOT 100% BUT A HIGH PERCENTAGE, of deer hunters fall into 1 of 2 categories. Those who don't like it but report anyway and the ones who don't like and don't report.. The number that who likes it and reports APPEARS to be insignificant.

Given those majority groups, can compliance for GC ever improve? I'm talking actual number of deer killed and reported ever improve ....to let's say 100,000?. Not talking about a % of any made up number, just the actual number reported