I have done some online research on transporting meat across state line and have not turned up any useful information on the subject. Will try the great CF.com community now.
Going hunting in my home state of Mississippi for the first time since I moved to SC while I am there for Christmas. Will not be around long enough to have it processed into final “product” before I leave, if I am able to take a deer. Does anyone know of any laws prohibiting the transport of game meat in primal cuts (bone in quarters) into the state. Will I have to have a SC hunting lic if I bring it to a processor over here?
Thanks
MRR
nothing in the regs, I’d check with your processor to make sure they’ll take it and I’d call DNR
Pioneer 197SF
Wow, you are honest! I’d never even think to ask the question. Where you from river rat? I’m from Oxford.
I asked a dnr person about me picking up deer meat from the processor without a license and he said it was fine. I put out hits every year and try to get at least 3 if possible.
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It is what it is!
Off the DNR website:
In general, most states that have adopted carcass transportation regulations do not allow the importation of any brain or spinal column tissue and allow transport of only the following materials (these regulations are in effect in South Carolina):
1.Boned out meat that is cut and wrapped (either commercially or privately).
2.Quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached.
3.Hides and capes with no heads attached.
4.Clean (no meat or tissue attached) skulls or skull plates with antlers attached.
5.Antlers with no meat or tissue attached.
6.Upper canine teeth, also known as “buglers,” “whistlers,” or “ivories.”
7.Finished taxidermy products.
The following states and provinces have adopted some form of carcass transportation regulations: California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. Since these regulations are continually evolving, it is recommended that if you hunt other states, check the CWD regulations in the state in which you will be hunting, and states in which you will travel through en route home from your hunting area. Most state wildlife agencies provide regulations information on their Websites and may be accessed through the CWD LINKS page on the CWD Alliance Web site.
They are concerned about CWD…which is what you and I were taling about the other day.
John