We haven't checked deer in at game stations for a few years in SC. It's nice when you get one in the evening and don't have to find someplace open before you take it home and skin it out. Being from WV where we do check them in, I thought it was weird at first. But now I like it. Just don't ask how the DNR gets their harvest numbers. They've never talked to me!
But they come up with some off the wall number. At least VA can have some "reasonable" accuracy with an on-line system.