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    Senior Member (too much time on their hands) jb's Avatar
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    Not sure how many other states do this.

    Michigan DNR has given out these patches for the past 45 years. Bring your deer into a check station where they age it, check it's health and take measurements of the antlers. Then they give you a patch.
    Here are pic's of my first one and the one I got this AM.
    They are very collectible, I think I have a few dozen.
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    No state that I've ever hunted in but that's a cool idea.

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    That’s pretty cool. We don’t do anything like that in Va. In fact, you can even check your deer via phone and, I think, online. I still don’t the old fashioned way though as I have a nail in my shop where I’ve hung the game check card for every deer I’ve ever killed.


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    No check-in here in ND at all.

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    Indiana went to online check in about three years ago.

    I had a nail in the garage with all my old check in tags hanging on it.


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    Never heard of that but that’s really cool.

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    Our check-in is 100% voluntary, the patches are just an incentive to do it. Lot of good info. comes from these check-in stations.
    What I've done the past few years are these. I have a friend who does a nice job with a "rack on a plaque" then attach the patch to the plaque, and write on the back the info as to date, time, location, who shot it and who was with me. Someday maybe the great grand kids will have these hung in their garage.
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    I used to get one from the Province of Ontario for every bear I checked. I’d receive a patch in the mail. Nothing like it here, as far as I know.

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