Well Ive been thinking about this for a while, Missouri is doing away with wildlife check stations. For yearswhen you take a deer or turkey you had to take it to an official check station to be checked, recorded and banded with a numbered band for records of it being tagged. Now Missouri has done away with check stations, and I think it is just going to make it easier on poachers. What I mean is before, when you tagged an animal, you had to take it to town, have it looked at, by a check station attendant, or maybe even a game warden, for it to be legal. That would have been hard to get by with shooting with a rifle and bowtagging it, even if it was a little inconvenient. I know there are states that dont have to check animals, and am wondering if there is a bigger poaching problem in areas where you simple kill it and take it home. I think it will open the door to people not tagging game and shooting it with whatever they want and tagging it with another kind of tag, such as shootin deer with a rifle in bow season. There is already a serious poaching problem in our area without this, and Im afraid it will get even worse. What does everyone think it will do?? Has anyone ever experienced a change like this? Sorry to be so long winded but this has been a concern to me every since I read about it. Thanks for your replies.