No deer across state lines in Louisiana starting 2017

Any idea if this will apply to Ms land on the La side of the river?

So say I live in Shreveport, hunt just barely across the state line < 5mi. into East TX. I cannot bring the harvest back in La. until it has been processed?

... because there may be CWD in the Texas deer but the deer in La. < 5 mi. away does not have CWD

They should have a rule about neighboring states. Nothing is keeping a deer I could potentially kill in E TX from coming across the state line and spreading CWD in La.

I understand keeping deer from far away states out so they don't introduce foreign diseases but banning neighboring states doesn't make sense

there's gona' be a lot of bitching and moaning over this for some of the cases listed here already. HOWEVER, cws is something that REALLY scares the biologist. scared as in "no deer" scared.

Biologist don't know shite. They are constantly looking for answers

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Arkansas deer are the big concern

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Yep, the problem was in north AR. I hunt in southeast AR where the herd is healthy. It sounds like at a minimum we will have to quarter without the spine, and clean the skull of all tissue if you want the rack.

If it isn't a trophy it's getting nailed to the trailershed from now on.

I process deer myself and bone them out most of the time. That said, I could see how this could be a serious inconvenience to people.

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"No person shall import, transport or possess any cervid carcass or part of a cervid carcass originating outside of Louisiana, except: for meat that is cut and wrapped; meat that has been boned out; quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached, antlers, clean skull plates with antlers, cleaned skulls without tissue attached, capes, tanned hides, finished taxidermy mounts and cleaned cervid teeth. Any and all bones shall be disposed of in a manner where its final destination is at an approved landfill or equivalent.".

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Does this mean we can still quarter it with out de-boning as long as the spinal column isn't attached to anything? I've always quartered it, take out the backstraps and tenderloins and the neck roast.

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When in reality it's no big deal. Just debone it while it's hanging, takes 5 'ore minutes.

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Until you frick up and kill a buck you want to either have mounted in LA or bring the head back to do a skull mount and have to either find someone in Mississippi to do the taxidermy or spend all night fleshing out a head. A lot of people drive to Mississippi to hunt and don't have a camp there to process deer. This is going to equate for a bunch of headaches.

Biggest problem will be with trophies. Not many people want to skin out the head and cut the skull plate on a trophy deer. Most bring head back intact with cape attached. Going to be a boom in business for MS taxidermists.