Transport Tags
Immediately upon harvesting any deer, hunters must complete in ink all information requested on the Transportation Tag either attached to your license, deer season permit or supplemental tag. Be sure to use the Transportation Tag corresponding to the hunting season for the deer you harvested. This shall be in addition to the regular Buck Stub if applicable; (see also information about Buck Stubs).
1. A valid transportation tag must be detached from your license or permit then securely attached to the deer immediately after it has been killed.
2. Youth and farmer hunters creating a handwritten transportation tag (see our youth section for a tag you can print out) must include the following information: hunting license number (youths only), Conservation ID number (farmers, if assigned), date, hunting season, gender of deer, number of antler points, county, township and deer management zone.
3. Transportation Tags from 2006 permits are valid for the entire length of the Permit Bow, Permit Muzzleloader and Permit Shotgun seasons including January and February 2007, if the zone specified on the original permit is open for hunting on those dates.
4. All Supplemental Deer Transportation Tags are valid immediately for taking another deer on the day of issuance.
Buck Stubs-- See the section on Buckstubs, Bag Limits and License restrictions.
Mandatory Deer Check Requirement
Immediately upon harvesting any deer, hunters must complete in ink all required tags and/or buck stub (see Tagging Requirments above).
1. All hunters are required to register harvested deer. Bring your deer to the closest official deer check station (see Check Station list .pdf file), except for Bank-A-Doe, see Bank-A-Doe section of Basic Regulations for special checkstation requirements.
2. Be discrete when transporting deer to and from a check station, butcher or taxidermist.
3. Deer must be taken to the check station by person who killed the deer, on the day killed, by 8:00 p.m. EST during the regular Fall Bow Season and by 7:00 p.m. EST during all other seasons.
4. Transportation Tags and Buck Stubs, if applicable, must be surrendered to the check station operator. Check Station personnel will attach a legal metal possession seal to the deer and, if applicable, will issue a New Jersey Supplemental Transportation Tag for the harvest of another deer. It is the hunter's responsibility that hte seal is attached and locked on the deer.
5. Remember: Bring your hunting license and deer season permit to the check stations. JUVENILE TRANSPORT TAG INFORMATION
When deer are recovered too late and/or the check station is closed:
1. Any unchecked deer must be immediately reported by telephone to the nearest NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife regional law enforcement office.
For deer harvested in these counties:
Bergen Hudson Somerset
Essex Morris Sussex
Hunterdon Passaic Warren
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For deer harvested in these counties:
Burlington Monmouth
Mercer Ocean
Middlesex
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For deer harvested in these counties:
Atlantic Cumberland
Camden Gloucester
Cape May Salem
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Call the Northern Region
Law Enforcement office at
(908) 735-8240
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Call the Central Region
Law Enforcement office at
(609) 259-2120
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Call the Southern Region
Law Enforcement office at
(856) 629-0555
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2. Leave a message with your name, phone number, hunting license number and deer management zone on the recorder
3. Check your deer the following morning at the nearest deer check station. If weather conditions necessitate butchering the deer immediately, you must bring head and hide to be checked the next day.
After checking your deer -Possesion/Sale Metal possession seals (affixed to deer at check stations) must be kept until all venison is consumed and as long as any part or parts, including antlers, are kept. Persons with deer mounts should write there name, legal possession seal number, date of kill, and season of harvest on the back of the mounting plate for future reference.
It is illegal to sell deer meat, deer antlers or any part of a deer except deer hides. However, nonprofit organizations conducting wild game dinners for social and fundraising events may offer game or furbearer meat (the sale of which is otherwise prohibited) provided that the meat had been harvested, stored and processed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Supplemental Transport Tags
Properly licensed hunters who harvest their first deer will be given a "New Jersey Supplemental Deer Transportation Tag" (supplemental tag) upon registration of their deer at a designated deer check station (NOTE: Scott's Bait & Tackle is a CHECK STATION). This tag is valid for the taking of one additional deer, either an antlered or antlerless deer, if the first deer was antlerless; or an antlerless deer, if the first deer was antlered. The supplemental tag may be used in any zone open for the season (may be subject to limitations) during the Fall Bow, Six-day Firearm and Winter Bow Seasons. The supplemental tag may be used only in that specific zone for which a special season permit was issued during the Permit Bow, Permit Muzzleloader and Permit Shotgun Seasons. Properly licensed hunters that harvest a second deer may obtain and additional "New Jersey Supplemental Deer Transportation Tag" upon registration of their second deer at a designated deer check station. This tag is valid for the taking of one additional deer, either an antlered or antlerless deer, if the hunter has not yet taken an antlered deer; or an antlerless deer, if the hunter has taken an antlered deer during the season. Supplemental tags validated for the hunter's third and subsequent deer may be used only in unlimited antlerless deer zones open during the Fall Bow and Winter Bow Seasons, and in the specific zone for which a special season permit was issued during the Permit Bow, Permit Muzzleloader and Permit Shotgun Seasons. See Deer Regulation Sets for zone by zone details. Additional supplemental tags, valid only in unlimited antlerless deer zones, will be issued upon registration of each subsequent deer until the season concludes. After harvest the season limit of one antlered deer, supplemental tags will only be valid for taking antlerless deer. There is no season limit on the number of antlerless deer, which may be harvested in unlimited antlerless zones. An antlerless deer is defined as any deer with no antlers or antlers less than three inches in length. All supplemental tags are valid on the date of issuance in all zones open for the season.
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