Louisiana Bow Hunters Podcast - interesting episode

This happened to someone I know in North La, they killed a buck/ doe or some combo on the same day that wasn't legal even though they had tags.

Posted pics on facebook showing off, same afternoon Green Jeans shows up and writes 3-4 tickets.

Bragging got them busted

Travis broke the law. The topic has been well covered on hunting forums and in the media.
From a practical standpoint, the law is bullshite. He moved the animal 17 miles. It’s very possible that the buck had gone that far into Louisiana in his lifetime. The law is placing an undue burden on the hunter to clean the skull or find a taxidermist in the state it was killed in. Two years ago, I stayed a day extra at camp to boil the skull of a buck so that I would be in compliance with the onerous laws.
Also, the hunter in this situation had his head confiscated and supposedly incinerated.

The guys didn’t know what the regs were for moving carcasses, etc from a CWD hot zone. Here they are.

Where CWD is discovered in Louisiana, LDWF will create a CWD control area, the size of which will depend on the location and distribution of infected deer as well as the density, distribution, and seasonal movements of the local deer population. There will be feeding and baiting restrictions in the CWD control area where the disease is found. There also will be movement restrictions on deer carcass parts. Hunters will not be able to bring whole deer out from the CWD control area. They’ll be restricted to deboned meat, meat that is cut and wrapped, quarters with no part of the head and spinal cord, a clean skull plate with antlers, tanned hides, finished taxidermy mounts, cleaned cervid teeth, and the cape, which is the skin of the head and shoulders. Testing of deer harvested within the CWD control area is recommended. LDWF will maintain intensive surveillance in the CWD control area for an indefinite period of time.

Basically, you’ve got to get Taxidermy done before removing the head from the hot zone. No taking the head to your taxidermist back home, even within Louisiana.

So the crime is that the head wasn’t cleaned?

Paid a fine in S Carolina in 2019. Wasn’t aware that SC had become one of the CWD states. Killed a Buck in Illinois on the afternoon of my last day to hunt. Daughter was getting baptized the next morning, so I loaded the deer up and headed home. Drove all night.

Made it to Church and afterwords took the deer to the local processor. Shortly after I left a warden showed up at the processors to check deer and saw mine. He called me first, asked if he could come by and see me and once at the house explained what I had done wrong.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse and I told him as much. Paid the ticket and got to keep my Buck. Also, they tested the deer and it came back negative.

Thanks, wanted to make sure I understood the violation.

I've seen an investigation based on someone asking the poster if the deer pictured was killed on a WMA. They checked to see if the deer was checked out of the WMA, it was not because it was not killed there. But they used that info to track down the guy, question him, and used it to question others in the private lease where it was killed. Fortunately the Warden was understanding and issues a few warnings for minor stuff. The whole tagging system we use is screwed up. There is info that needs to be included on the kill sheet, your license etc that there are no places in either to put it. you have to jot it along the top etc. Any tagging system that you can print and copy your own tags is useless and those that choose to can make their way around it.

Caping out the skull is easy to screw up and tedious work.

Easiest way to handle it is to cut the horns off and bum a cape off someone else if you aren't comfortable skinning the skull.

I grew up around fur trapping, so had a lot of experience tailskinning things, and removing full hide from skulls. It ain't all that hard, you tube could talk about anyone though it. I'm not advocating for this BS law, just saying there are ways to get a buck back and mounted by your own taxidermist legally. Plenty taxidermist will cape out a skull for you for pretty cheap just for this one purpose now up in the midwest. I'd been doing it this way for years before the law, just cause I often shot a good one at the camp where we didn't have a freezer, so it was an easy way to be able to ice just the cap and keep hunting.
Not sure if they have changed anything in the 23/24 laws, but they had previously had special crave out regarding crossing the LA/MS line, specifically on thr MS river. I hunt the Bouga Chitto NWR a bunch, launching by boat from MS, but there is no language specifically for this area. The way the law is written, buck or doe, you technically have to completely bone out your kill on sight and couldn't even return to where I launch.