Checking Turkey at Check Stations

Step 1: Immediately upon taking a turkey, before moving the animal, the hunter must remove the appropriate turkey tag from his license and fill out the required information legibly in ink. The tag must be securely fastened to the turkey's leg and must remain on the bird until final processing and storage by the hunter.

Disability and 65 plus Lifetime License holders, resident and non-resident hunters under 16 and Mississippi license holders hunting under the Reciprocal Hunting License Agreement must immediately, upon taking a turkey, remove and fill out the game tag provided in the 2006-07 guidebook legibly in ink. You may substitute a piece of paper for this tag if it includes the hunter's name, the date, time and zone number, written legibly in ink, from which the turkey was taken.

• Refer to the turkey zone map and fill in the appropriate number in the zone column.     
• If  the bird was killed on a WMA, use the WMA zone number.

Step 2: Within 24 hours of taking a turkey, check (your own) game at a designated wildlife check station, at a designated deer camp, with an AGFC employee or at www.agfc.com. No big-game animal may be transported across state lines prior to checking, unless normal travel routes require crossing a state line in direct route to an official wildlife check station. Before taking carcasses to be checked, entrails may be removed but evidence of the animal's gender must remain.

Step 3: Validation The check station number will be recorded on the game tag.

Step 4: Notice of Transfer If you choose to give away all or a portion of your game to another person, you are required to supply that person with the following information in writing: your name, address, type of game, number of animals, date of kill and your hunting license number. This requirement applies to deer camps and commercial processing or storage facilities.

See Example

Checking a Turkey Online  

1. Log on to AGFC online checking.
2. Enter your name, date of birth, email address and if applicable, CID number (what's a CID number?).
3. Enter the date of kill and select the game type (deer or turkey).
4. Select the Zone or WMA where the game was harvested.
5. Select the County in which the game was harvested.
   
6. Select the Method used to harvest the game.
7. Complete information concerning your game, for example deer or turkey sex.
   
8. Confirm and/or change your information and submit to AGFC.
9. A confirmation e-mail will be sent for your records if you provide your email address.
10. Write the online check number on the back of your hunting license in the Station # column.

The computer takes the place of the check station. This option is not available for those Wildlife Management Area permit hunts that require checking game at locations stated on the permit.

If you have questions about checking game online, contact 1-800-364-4263 extension 6430.

Check Your Turkey Online

Check Sheet Program

The check sheet program is designed to give deer and turkey camp members the opportunity to check deer or turkeys taken on their own (or leased) lands. More than 3,000 camps are enrolled in the program. Enrollment is open between May 1 and August 31. Requirements for the program are:    

• The camp must own or lease 200 or more acres;         
• The camp must have six or more hunting members; and         
• Wildlife Officers have the authority to refuse to allow deer camps to participate in this program if violations occur.         
• For more information about the Check Sheet Program, call (501) 223-6430.     

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