Why do you think having a check station forces people to go there? Poachers don't use check stations. The archery check stations I go to just hand me the band and I put it on myself. They sure as heck don't examine the deer. They have a business to run and don't have time. They don't get paid enough to make time. The gun check stations are a different story. They monitor those pretty closely. As I understand it, when you call in you would be given an I.D. number. You have to give that number to the meat locker, just like the band from the check station. If you proccess your own, it would be a lot easier to call it in, and your meat will be a whole lot fresher. If you are a poacher, you weren't going to the check station anyway. I hope they go to call in for archery and leave gun season as is. I may be a minority, but that's my opinion.