This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: cross-references — description: **These are the PRIVATE LANDS seasons and methods only.** Every Wildlife Management Area has its own seasons, methods and limits, printed on pp.97-106 (folios 95-104) of this guide and not carried here — Game Zone 1 WMAs alone run a Mountain Hunt Unit with dates unlike anything on these pages. **The LIMITS on these rows do reach public land, and an earlier version of this gap said the opposite.** p.62 prints "Limits listed include deer taken on private & WMA lands." — carried here as a row and on every limit row as `counts_deer_taken_on_wma` — so a deer taken on a WMA counts against the antlered and antlerless totals published here. What a hunter on public land cannot take from these rows is the SEASON DATES and the METHODS: those are each WMA's own.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: cross-references — description: Rules on OTHER pages that bind these rows and are not carried: deer tag issue and validation, and how Individual Antlerless Deer Tags are obtained, pp.59-60 (folios 57-58); the Deer Quota Program itself — these rows publish only its EXEMPTION from the printed limits — p.60 (folio 58); deer processor requirements, p.60 (folio 58), which is what "Processors see page 58" points at; and **mandatory big-game harvest reporting through SC Game Check, p.64 (folio 62)**, which binds every deer on every row here and is printed on the TURKEY page immediately after this section.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: map — Game Zones, p.62 (40.9% image, 17.5% curve) — description: **The map is the only place the guide says which county is in which Game Zone**, and every season and every limit published here is keyed to a Game Zone. Its 46 county names and its four zone numerals DO reach the text layer and are classified as map labels; the colour that assigns a county to a zone does not reach it at all. So these rows cannot be applied to a place from this compilation alone.
huntregs is not the law and is not an official edition of any state’s regulations: no state agency writes, reviews, publishes or approves it, and where a page here differs from the agency document it cites, the agency document is the regulation and this page is wrong.
It is an editorial compilation of state agency regulation documents: every row is carried verbatim out of one named document, cited by title, identified by the sha256 of the exact bytes we read, and printed beside the source lines it was read from.
What we do carry
rows verbatim — no row is summarised, and every field the source row carried is rendered, including the ones we have no column for;
each record’s own declaration of what it does not contain, printed in full and unedited, above the rows rather than under them;
our own withdrawals — dated, with the reason as written, and the state’s rows gone from every route while the withdrawal stands.
What we do not carry
the law itself. Every state page links the agency’s own document; that is the thing to read.
declared gaps. Where a record says regulation exists that it does not carry, that regulation is not here — it is named, in the record’s words, and it is still missing.
zone, unit or boundary geometry. The compilation holds no maps and this app draws none; several records declare that as a gap themselves.
shooting hours. Clock, sunrise and sunset text is shown exactly as written — nothing here computes a sunrise, a sunset or a timezone.
legal advice, or any judgement about whether a particular hunt is lawful for you.
every state. Some have no record in this compilation at all and some are withheld by the verification ledger today; which is which is measured on the index page each time it is loaded, not listed here.
Error direction — If this record is wrong, it is most likely wrong toward saying you MAY do something you may not.
That is the direction that ends in a citation, or in a hunter on ground the state has closed. Read the signals below before you use any row on this page.
Derived by rule from this record's own declared gaps, its own integrity fields and its own rows. It is not a score and there is no confidence number: the counts below count signals, nothing more.
2 over-permissive · 4 undeterminable · 0 under-permissive · 5 declared gap(s), 3 of which the record says carry regulation · 47 row(s) scanned
4 signal(s), most dangerous first. The evidence lines below are the rule's own excerpts, cut at 220 characters; every gap is printed in full and verbatim under what this record does not carry.
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [overriding_regime='has its own seasons']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
known_gaps[0]: **These are the PRIVATE LANDS seasons and methods only.** Every Wildlife Management Area has its own seasons, methods and limits, printed on pp.97-106 (folios 95-104) of this guide and not carried here — Game Zone 1 WMA…
overOVER: a restriction/requirement this record does not carry [obligation='requirement', limit_or_quota='Quota', tag_check_report='harvest report']; the gap ALSO names an opportunity it does not carry [extra_allowance='EXEMPTION from the printed limits'], so it errs both ways and the dangerous direction is reported
known_gaps[1]: Rules on OTHER pages that bind these rows and are not carried: deer tag issue and validation, and how Individual Antlerless Deer Tags are obtained, pp.59-60 (folios 57-58); the Deer Quota Program itself — these rows pub…
unknowncannot be determined: the gap carries regulation but its description names neither a restriction nor an opportunity in terms this rule can read (kind='map — Game Zones, p.62 (40.9% image, 17.5% curve)'). Boundary, map and definition gaps land here and belong here — not knowing which unit you are in cuts both ways
known_gaps[2]: **The map is the only place the guide says which county is in which Game Zone**, and every season and every limit published here is keyed to a Game Zone. Its 46 county names and its four zone numerals DO reach the text …
unknown1 page boundary/boundaries beside the cited range were never inspected. A table that continues past a citation loses whole rows — the missing rows could be further seasons (under) or the restrictions on the ones published (over), and this is the check five states went OFFLINE for skipping.
p61 (beside cited p62) — the uncited neighbour draws none; the cited page does — the safest case, the neighbour is probably prose…
what this rule cannot see
It reads this record's OWN prose. A restriction nobody declared is invisible to it — and an undeclared restriction is what takes a state offline.
It takes each gap's carries_regulation flag at face value. A gap mis-declared as non-regulatory is a silent miss.
It cannot weigh. One missing county list and fourteen missing pages of special-permit hunts each score once. There is no severity here, and that is why no score is shown.
It classifies a whole gap, never a row. A gap that qualifies four rows and a gap that qualifies all of them read identically.
Across the published records the record-level answer is almost always over. That is a statement about how regulation is written — what is missing from a compilation is usually a restriction — not a ranking of states.
Record integrity
Current through — the document this record was read from, and nothing later than it:
South Carolina Hunting & Fishing Laws and Regulations Guide, August 14, 2026 - August 14, 2027, pp.62-63 (folios 60-61), "Deer Rules & Regulations — Deer Seasons on Private Lands"
The document is those bytes. A URL is a name; if the publisher replaces the file behind it, this hash stops matching and the mismatch is the finding.
We fetched it on 2026-08-08. That is our retrieval date, not a publication date. This record carries no date on which its publisher issued, adopted, amended or last revised that document, so this page states none. Any effective, issue or adoption date the document states of itself is inside the citation above, in the publisher’s own words — nothing here lifts it out or restates it as a fact of ours.
The publisher is named inside that citation, in the publisher’s own words. This record carries no publisher field of its own, so nothing here names one separately.
The record states its own regulation year as 2026. That is the record’s field, not a currency claim: a record may state a year older than the day we fetched it, and where it does, it says so here.
Do not take our word for it. The document every row on this page was read out of is one tap away, and checking us against it is exactly what the citation, the sha256 and the source lines under each row are for.
If that document says something this page does not, the document is the regulation and this page is wrong. The copy we read is the one whose sha256 is above; if the publisher has replaced the file since 2026-08-08, yours will not match ours, and that difference is the thing worth knowing.
What this record does not carry
derived South Carolina declares 5 gaps, of which 3 are regulation this compilation does not carry.
3 gap(s) the record says carry regulation
These are regulation that exists and is not in here. They are printed in full, in the record's own words.
cross-references
**These are the PRIVATE LANDS seasons and methods only.** Every Wildlife Management Area has its own seasons, methods and limits, printed on pp.97-106 (folios 95-104) of this guide and not carried here — Game Zone 1 WMAs alone run a Mountain Hunt Unit with dates unlike anything on these pages. **The LIMITS on these rows do reach public land, and an earlier version of this gap said the opposite.** p.62 prints "Limits listed include deer taken on private & WMA lands." — carried here as a row and on every limit row as `counts_deer_taken_on_wma` — so a deer taken on a WMA counts against the antlered and antlerless totals published here. What a hunter on public land cannot take from these rows is the SEASON DATES and the METHODS: those are each WMA's own.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. South Carolina’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
cross-references
Rules on OTHER pages that bind these rows and are not carried: deer tag issue and validation, and how Individual Antlerless Deer Tags are obtained, pp.59-60 (folios 57-58); the Deer Quota Program itself — these rows publish only its EXEMPTION from the printed limits — p.60 (folio 58); deer processor requirements, p.60 (folio 58), which is what "Processors see page 58" points at; and **mandatory big-game harvest reporting through SC Game Check, p.64 (folio 62)**, which binds every deer on every row here and is printed on the TURKEY page immediately after this section.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. South Carolina’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
map — Game Zones, p.62 (40.9% image, 17.5% curve)
**The map is the only place the guide says which county is in which Game Zone**, and every season and every limit published here is keyed to a Game Zone. Its 46 county names and its four zone numerals DO reach the text layer and are classified as map labels; the colour that assigns a county to a zone does not reach it at all. So these rows cannot be applied to a place from this compilation alone.
Not us. South Carolina’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
2 further gap(s) the record says carry no regulation
declared by the record, which states these carry no regulation. They are published because the reason a thing was not read is part of the evidence.
figure — advertising, p.62 (part of the 40.9% image measured above)
The lower half of p.62 is a full-width eRegulations advertisement — photograph, logos and the words "With you wherever you go. The most up-to-date hunting regulations online!" It states no rule.
Three advertisements around the four zone boxes: HD Processing with its sponsor logos, Firekettles.com, and West Texas Feeder Supply. **More than half of the page carrying South Carolina's deer seasons is advertising**, which is why the zone boxes are read by coordinate and the rest is ruled out by region rather than swept. None of it states a rule; the deer-processor RULE is on p.62 and p.60, not in the HD Processing advertisement.
100.0% of p.62 as SENTENCES of the ten rule bullets and of the Statewide Youth Day box, plus its map labels and page furniture as visual rows; p.63 as coordinate-clustered runs of which the four zone boxes are one region and three advertisements are the rest
derived: this percentage is over the units named above, on the pages this record cites. It is not a percentage of the state's regulation. The gaps above are what a full percentage would have to count and cannot.
2 page(s) cited
62
63
1 page boundary/boundaries never inspected
p61 (beside cited p62) — the uncited neighbour draws none; the cited page does — the safest case, the neighbour is probably prose, but prose is how Utah lost nine pages, so the continuation check cannot fire. NOT a clean result: it was never inspected.
6 library repair(s)
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the record's citation_page field says page 62. This row's source lines could not be found in the PDF's text layer (the adapter reflowed them, or the page has no text layer), so the page is the record's claim and is NOT verified against the document
the record's citation_page field says page 62. This row's source lines could not be found in the PDF's text layer (the adapter reflowed them, or the page has no text layer), so the page is the record's claim and is NOT verified against the document
Limits listed include deer taken on private & WMA lands.
individual_antlerless_tag
Antlerless deer - limit 2 per day. Must be tagged with Individual Antlerless Deer Tag. Only three (3) Individual Antlerless Deer Tags may be used in Game Zone 1. Tags are valid in Game Zones 2, 3, and 4 beginning Sept. 15 and in Game Zone 1 beginning Oct. 1. Individual tags are not valid on properties enrolled for antlerless deer in the Deer Quota Program. Individual tags do not alter the daily (2 per day) or seasonal limit or change the type of weapon that can be used during special weapons seasons.
quota_program_exemption
Limits listed do not apply to quota deer taken on properties enrolled in the Deer Quota Program.
value
2 per day, 3 total all seasons and methods combined
Limits listed include deer taken on private & WMA lands.
individual_antlerless_tag
Antlerless deer - limit 2 per day. Must be tagged with Individual Antlerless Deer Tag. Only three (3) Individual Antlerless Deer Tags may be used in Game Zone 1. Tags are valid in Game Zones 2, 3, and 4 beginning Sept. 15 and in Game Zone 1 beginning Oct. 1. Individual tags are not valid on properties enrolled for antlerless deer in the Deer Quota Program. Individual tags do not alter the daily (2 per day) or seasonal limit or change the type of weapon that can be used during special weapons seasons.
quota_program_exemption
Limits listed do not apply to quota deer taken on properties enrolled in the Deer Quota Program.
value
2 per day, 9 total all seasons and methods combined
Limits listed include deer taken on private & WMA lands.
individual_antlerless_tag
Antlerless deer - limit 2 per day. Must be tagged with Individual Antlerless Deer Tag. Only three (3) Individual Antlerless Deer Tags may be used in Game Zone 1. Tags are valid in Game Zones 2, 3, and 4 beginning Sept. 15 and in Game Zone 1 beginning Oct. 1. Individual tags are not valid on properties enrolled for antlerless deer in the Deer Quota Program. Individual tags do not alter the daily (2 per day) or seasonal limit or change the type of weapon that can be used during special weapons seasons.
quota_program_exemption
Limits listed do not apply to quota deer taken on properties enrolled in the Deer Quota Program.
value
2 per day. 9 total all seasons and methods combined
Limits listed include deer taken on private & WMA lands.
individual_antlerless_tag
Antlerless deer - limit 2 per day. Must be tagged with Individual Antlerless Deer Tag. Only three (3) Individual Antlerless Deer Tags may be used in Game Zone 1. Tags are valid in Game Zones 2, 3, and 4 beginning Sept. 15 and in Game Zone 1 beginning Oct. 1. Individual tags are not valid on properties enrolled for antlerless deer in the Deer Quota Program. Individual tags do not alter the daily (2 per day) or seasonal limit or change the type of weapon that can be used during special weapons seasons.
quota_program_exemption
Limits listed do not apply to quota deer taken on properties enrolled in the Deer Quota Program.
value
2 per day. 9 total all seasons and methods combined
