What is SC Game Check?
SC Game Check is a new electronic harvest reporting system designed to track wild turkey harvest on a daily, county-by-county basis. SC Game Check is required by law and all turkey hunters in South Carolina must report their harvest by midnight on the day of harvest. It is a quick, easy, and free system for reporting harvests by a smartphone app, website portal or toll-free phone number.
Why SC Game Check?
SC Game Check will provide detailed daily harvest totals and trends throughout the season. It will also provide harvest data on private land vs. public land. This, in addition to the harvest data and hunter effort data received from post-season mail surveys, will aid SCDNR in evaluating the impact of season frameworks and help provide recommendations for regulatory and legislative decisions and allow for more adaptive approaches to managing wild turkeys into the future. Additionally, the reporting system, along with the already required physical tagging of wild turkeys, will foster and enhance bag limit compliance and provide an additional tool for enforcement of limits and regulations.
How do I use SC Game Check?
After harvesting and tagging your wild turkey, simply report the harvest by midnight that day by:
• Logging the harvest into the free SC Game Check mobile app on a smartphone, or
• Entering the harvest via the SC Game Check website at www.dnr.sc.gov/scgamecheck, or
• Calling the SC Game Check reporting phone line at 1-833-4SC-GAME (1-833-472-4263)
Take your pick and use the method that works best for you.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ANDROID USERS BELOW
If you are an Android user, you can download the S.C. Game Check smartphone app onto your device at this link. For reasons outside of SCDNR’s control, the app is NOT currently available in the Google Play Store, so you must visit the link above to download the app onto your smartphone.
For Apple users, you can download the free iOS app here.
Turkey season starts on Private Land in Game Zones 3 & 4 on March 22. For Private Land in Game Zones 1 & 2 and WMAs statewide, turkey season starts April 1.
Get more information about S.C. Game Check here.
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