As mentioned, no more check-in stations here in Illinois either. The call-in system is a good system simply because of the fact that now when you get a deer you don't have to worry about running it several miles away before they closed. This used to make deer taken in the evening a frustration when you couldn't do anything with your deer until it was officially checked in and then your local check station was already closed for the evening or because it may have been a holiday.

I know that some say that it make it easy for dishonest folks but the KEY WORD is "dishonest".... those folks were/are breakin laws anyway. It isn't a bad system ultimately.