If you qualify for the landowner exemption and it sounds like you may then you do not need to purchase any additional tags or licenses as long as you are hunting on that property.
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but if I don't move it , I can check deer in on the TWRA app and I am set?If you qualify for the landowner exemption and it sounds like you may then you do not need to purchase any additional tags or licenses as long as you are hunting on that property.
There is a landowner exemption form you have to fill out, and you still have to tag your deer if you were going to move it before you check it in. I believe you can print the tags off or get them out of the hunting guide.
Remember to Tag Before You Drag, Game Check In Procedures
Report your harvest with or without cell service before you move the game. You will immediately receive a harvest confirmation number that TWRA Officers can use or verify your harvest.
You don't need to buy anything as a landowner. They will ask for the property map number and parcel number when you check deer in on the app. You can look that info up on TN property viewer website.
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Hmm, when did "farmland" get added to this? I could swear it only said landowner when I checked it a few years ago. I have a lifetime license, before the land, so never technically needed the exemption, but when I was checked by the head game warden, first year I bought it, he didn't blink an eye when I said I was hunting under the landowner exemption, and my land is clearly not "farmland".
Historically, checking in deer was to get an idea of harvest numbers, to manage the herd and limits per hunter. Hunters were issued a certain number of tags and forcing you to use them kept hunters from getting more than their limit. But in places that you don't have to physically, or digitally, check them in, I am not sure what it is for. In those places, I figure that as long as you are licensed, then it would not matter if the deer had a tag, or not, as they couldn't check if that buck was your first, or twentieth.
In TN, tags are only a temporary stop-gap until you can get it checked in. It's just an alternate so that you can't say " Yes, officer I was going to fill out the information when I got a way to check it in"
Well, the tagging system doesn't cost anything. You just print it off. And it's only in case you don't have a way to check them in on mobile.
Its been farmland for quite some time, but its still called the landowner exemption, and I've never heard of it being challenged.
I thought it was kind of cool also, but after so many years of it and so many deer I killed and "tagged", only for it to be tossed in the trash and not one time did I ever see a "tag" checked or even checked for, why worry about it? Only for it to be trashed while dragging the deer. And if you go directly to a check station or check all your deer in with a phone, why worry about it?
I have no idea when it was added. I always a sportsmans license because I hunt multiple properties but the local game warden brought it up a year or so ago. And he used the same Brentwood example. He also added that "tree farming" as in forest was perfectly accepted as farm land.
I would buy that if physical check-in was mandatory, but as it is, some places don't have any, even voluntary check-ins. CWD is relatively new, so not buying that as the reason, as it predates CWD. I was/am ok using physical, or digital methods to check-in my deer, no reason not to.
Well, I will give you the benefit of the doubt, but when I researched it, I don't recall seeing farmland in there. But, like I said, I have had my lifetime license since before I bought the land, so may have just overlooked it.
