New NCWRC rule, Deer Processing - Greenville/Spartanburg/Clinton, SC

[Tim]

The NCWRC in its infinite wisdom has decreed that you cannot 'import' a deer carcass from anywhere outside of NC. The animal must be completely deboned and packaged before bringing into the state. NO bone or bone fragment can cross state line!

So, instead of processing the deer myself at home (just over the border), I'm being forced to find and pay for a processor in South Carolina.

Anybody have a recommendation somewhere around Clinton, Greenville, Spartanburg...?

 

[Grim]

No clue on a SC processor. I'm lucky to have my in-law's place to process our deer before bringing them to NC. However, should I shoot a hog, I'm going to have it have it mounted in VA, then brought to NC instead of using my local taxidermist.

I think the risk for contamination is pretty low for the average hunter, but some have ruined it for the rest of us, by dumping discarded parts improperly.

 

[Howland]

Alexander's, 102 McDonald Road Travelers Rest SC. 864-834-5207 or 864-561-6622.

Pickens County Deer Processing, 385 Raines Rd., Easley, SC. (864) 770-5944.

I've never used either and don't have first hand knowledge of them. I found them on the SCOutdoorNews website and stuck their numbers in my phone on the off chance some poor Bambi who's lost it's mother wanders in front of me.

You should hit up that forum. Its kind of dead but if I recall, there were a few with good recommendations further east of Spartanburg that I didn't grab because they were all over an hour away.

 

[chiefjason]

Its not hard to de bone one pretty quick. Btdt. Skin, take the inner loins out, tender loins, de bone hams are pretty easy. Shoulders are a little more work.


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[Tim]

Its not hard to de bone one pretty quick. Btdt. Skin, take the inner loins out, tender loins, de bone hams are pretty easy. Shoulders are a little more work.


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Yup. But not on the hood of my GMC Acadia. There are no facilities at my lease, not even a picnic table and a hose. Before this rule we'd bring them to my buddies house where he has a cleaning station set up and we'd be done in no time.

 

[Ikarus1]

So I can't send my cape to my licensed taxidermist who takes in animals from all over the world? Yeah, that's a rule that is gonna get some major pushback from the NCTA and others.

EDIT: Nope, you can import the following:

https://www.ncwildlife.org/News/wildlife-commission-prohibits-importation-of-deer-carcasses

The rule states that anyone transporting cervid carcass parts into North Carolina must follow processing and packaging regulations, which only allow the importation of:

• Meat that has been boned out such that no pieces or fragments of bone remain;
• Caped hides with no part of the skull or spinal column attached;
• Antlers, antlers attached to cleaned skull plates, or cleaned skulls free from meat, or brain tissue;
• Cleaned lower jawbone(s) with teeth or cleaned teeth; or
• Finished taxidermy products and tanned hides.

 

[chiefjason]

Yup. But not on the hood of my GMC Acadia. There are no facilities at my lease, not even a picnic table and a hose. Before this rule we'd bring them to my buddies house where he has a cleaning station set up and we'd be done in no time.

You can do everthing but the front shoulders with a deer hanging. A tarp might be handy to keep stuff off the ground. Yes it's more of a PIA and you might have to clean them up some when you get home. But I'd be finding any way I could around going to a processor.