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Turkey hunters must report harvest by app, website or phone

Turkey hunters must report harvest by app, website or phone

By South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

SC Game Check, a new electronic harvest reporting system designed to track wild turkey harvest on a daily, county-by-county basis, is required by law, and all turkey hunters must report their harvest by midnight on the day of harvest.

The quick, easy, and free system for reporting harvests can be made using a smartphone app, the website portal or calling the tollfree phone number.

Turkey season starts on private land in Game Zones 3 and 4 on March 22; for private land in Game Zones 1 and 2 and WMAs statewide, turkey season starts April 1.

SC Game Check will provide detailed daily harvest totals and trends throughout the season, as well as harvest data on private land vs. public land.

This, in addition to the harvest data and hunter effort data from post-season mail surveys, will aid in evaluating the impact of season frameworks. The data will be used to provide recommendations for regulatory and legislative decisions and allow for more adaptive approaches to managing wild turkeys into the future.

To use the system after harvesting and tagging the wild turkey, hunters can report their harvest by midnight that day by logging the harvest into the free SC Game Check mobile app on a smartphone.

Hunters can also enter their harvest on the SC Game Check website or by calling the report phone line (833) 472-4263.

Because the SC Game Check app is not currently available in the Google Play Store Android phone users should download the SC Game Check app at this link.

Apple phone users can download the free iOS app here.

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