I was hunting Hardin County's DSA area with my neighbor and he shot a button buck. It was about 10 minutes before the end of hunting hours and it took us a good 25 minutes to find him in the massive brush entanglement that he hid inside of, after the shot. After we got him in the truck, we had to travel about 18 miles north to the "mandatory" DSA check station, at the McGuffy Conservation Club. Upon our arrival, the lights are out and nobody's there. 
No biggie, we follow the instructions on the kiosk. We're supposed to chop the deer head off, tag it with the hunter's information, put it in a plastic bag and drop it in the plastic garbage can. Well....there's no plastic bags and no tags for the info. 
I called the GW and told him what were attempting to do and with the lack of items provided. Meanwhile, another hunter shows up with an 8 pointer, attempting to do the same thing. While we had the GW on speaker, he is talking to everyone there and apologizing to everyone for the mix up. The app and the game regs state that we're supposed to be at the McGuffy Conservation Club, but it has been changed to the Hog Creek Game Club in Ada. However, the app and regs haven't been updated, yet.
He apologizes again and says to take it to Wapakoneta, at Steve's Deer Processing and he'll take care of everything there. Nice....that's another 45 miles away and we could've been there already and had this meat in the cooler. 
So, I thanked him for the update and we started our journey to the deer processor.
What a can of worms!!! Typical State mentality. CWD isn't transmittable to humans and they're not going to get the test results back to the hunter, before the deer gets processed anyway. The State has no way of controlling CWD and it isn't cause by baiting from deer "swapping spit". They lick each other's mouths all the time. Over the last 3 years there have been fewer and fewer "mandatory" check-in days, so perhaps they're "letting it go" over a period of time.
I'd like to know what the reasoning is behind their push to end CWD, when it's out of their grasp.
Rant over, I guess. It was 10:40 by the time we got back home. Nutz! We could've easily cut off an hour and a half of time messing around with that check-in station.
I felt bad for my neighbor, as he had to work the next day.
No biggie, we follow the instructions on the kiosk. We're supposed to chop the deer head off, tag it with the hunter's information, put it in a plastic bag and drop it in the plastic garbage can. Well....there's no plastic bags and no tags for the info. I called the GW and told him what were attempting to do and with the lack of items provided. Meanwhile, another hunter shows up with an 8 pointer, attempting to do the same thing. While we had the GW on speaker, he is talking to everyone there and apologizing to everyone for the mix up. The app and the game regs state that we're supposed to be at the McGuffy Conservation Club, but it has been changed to the Hog Creek Game Club in Ada. However, the app and regs haven't been updated, yet.
He apologizes again and says to take it to Wapakoneta, at Steve's Deer Processing and he'll take care of everything there. Nice....that's another 45 miles away and we could've been there already and had this meat in the cooler. So, I thanked him for the update and we started our journey to the deer processor.What a can of worms!!! Typical State mentality. CWD isn't transmittable to humans and they're not going to get the test results back to the hunter, before the deer gets processed anyway. The State has no way of controlling CWD and it isn't cause by baiting from deer "swapping spit". They lick each other's mouths all the time. Over the last 3 years there have been fewer and fewer "mandatory" check-in days, so perhaps they're "letting it go" over a period of time.
I'd like to know what the reasoning is behind their push to end CWD, when it's out of their grasp.
Rant over, I guess. It was 10:40 by the time we got back home. Nutz! We could've easily cut off an hour and a half of time messing around with that check-in station.
I felt bad for my neighbor, as he had to work the next day.