No turkey hunting permitted on Turkey Restoration Sites which have not been formally opened by the Department or on any WMA not listed above. All bagged turkeys must be tagged with the appropriate transportation tag before the bird is moved from the point of kill. All bagged turkeys must be shown at a check station for weighing, measuring, and application of a legal kill tag to replace the transportation tag. Turkeys bagged too late for reporting to a check station must be reported the following day, and the appropriate transportation tag must be attached to the check station data card. It is unlawful for any person to use a firearm or archery tackle while in preparation for, engaged in the act of, or returning from hunting in a criminally negligent manner.
Criminal negligence is defined as the reckless disregard for the safety of others.
Any person involved in a hunting accident in which injury or death resulted must file a report with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. It is unlawful to shoot any wild turkey on its roost between thirty minutes after official sunset and thirty minutes before official sunrise. It is unlawful to take or attempt to take a wild turkey from a vehicle on a public road. It is unlawful for a person to hunt or take or attempt to hunt or take a wild turkey by means of, or aid or use of bait or baiting, or on or over any baited area. As used in this section bait or baiting means the placing, depositing,exposing, distributing, or scattering of salt, shelled, shucked, or unshucked corn, wheat, or other grain, or other foodstuffs to constitute for wild turkeys a lure, attrac tion, or enticement to, on, or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take them, and baited area means an area where salt, shelled, shuck ed, or un shuck ed corn, wheat, other grain, or other foodstuffs capable of luring, attract ing, or enticing wild turkeys is directly or indirectly placed, exposed, deposited, distrib u ted or scattered, and the area re mains a baited area for ten days following com plete removal of all bait.