Just who do you hang out with? No, don't tell me.

Kansas has both E-tags, where they are only on your phone and also electronic check-in and reporting with picture required of tag attached. Both work well, and are optional.

https://programs.ksoutdoors.com/Programs/Electronic-Deer-Check-in

Yes! Let’s make electronic tags. While we are at it, we may as well make killing the deer more convenient too. Why can’t we buy a buck online, have it processed, mounted, and shipped to your home so you never have to leave the house?

This is the first year that electronic tagging is optional in Louisiana. In fact if you want the paper tags you can still use them but have to print them yourself which is what I did on some water proof paper. I'm still using paper but downloaded the app and it seems pretty user friendly. Have some friends tagging electronically this year and they love it.

Heck I’m no rocket scientist; but I’m willing to take a stab at it, maybe plus or minus like this:

1. Get on site.
2. Enter license number.
3. Enter last 4 of DL to verify.
4. Check One: Buck __ Doe__
5. Ranch
6. County

Hit send; conformation comes by email.

The two folks in our camp who got a talking to by the GW for not filling out their paperwork properly was a cop and firefighter. Go figure...

We are on MLD and therefore more important. They should figure out how to make ours work first.

Because I use some WMAs that require electronic registration, I messed around with that harvest app. It also asks you to mark on the electronic topo map where you made your harvest. I could see that being a mandatory requirement both public and private if they go to electronic tagging. I can see how valuable that data would be to a wildlife biologist and a good tool for gws to use with poachers who will either lie on location or not enter it at all. Like the poacher that claimed a trophy deer tagged as taken at a wma. They could not prove the deer was poached, but there was no card turned into the wma for the day he killed the deer so they got him on that. I'm not sure how I feel about my and everyone else's gps kill data being available to the public through open records. Especially on public land. And I could see lease brokers using the data to hunt down new leases to snatch away from people who have done well managing without lease cost increases. I have lost a lease before to someone who offered double our cost because of one of our lease members bragging in town about our lease. Be careful what you wish for.

For me It doesn’t ask for precise location, just a certain management area. I hunt pecos, concho and mason. Every time I’ve entered the location area is generally very very broad like western half of a county.

If they end up mandating required photos then it could get real precise depending on tagged photo data.

Here are the deer management units for TX

The first time I used it, I was going to enter a turkey I killed on my lease. It would not let me complete adding it without entering the precise location on the map. I stopped right there. I have not looked at it in a long time, so maybe something has changed. I could see a majority of people shying away from the app same as me because of it.

Mine wasn't perceive or at least I didn’t take it’s as precise. Just basically made me pick a zone. Example pecos country has zone 4 and 5 in it. West side is 4 so just hit the four area in map.

For a Turkey in Young county it still requires the exact GPS location. Note that is not the location of my lease. I just touched a random location on the young county map that popped up. You can't go to the next page to enter beard length, etc. without giving the location of harvest.

I went on to start the process of entering a fictitious mule deer from pecos county. A pop up did come up saying they only needed management unit. Same for whitetail. But it looks like all small game on the app require precise location. Even ducks require precise location to be able to enter them. I still could see exact location becoming required for big game as well if they went to an electronic tag. It would likely be modeled from the current app.

My phone blows up every friggen day. I turn it off when I am hunting. The last thing I want to mess with while hunting is a GD phone. I go hunting to get away from the damned thing.

Nobody likes change!

I do...but only in the form of quarters, dimes, nickels...etc.!