Deer Check-In Question

[M4Madness]

The first week of season, I took a doe right before dark on a weekday evening. By the time I got it out of the woods, every check-in station I called was closed. I finally found one on the opposite end of my county, and convinced them to wait after hours for me to arrive. I then convinced a deer processor to also meet me after hours so I could get the it in his walk in cooler.

The processor was pretty confident that I could have just come to his shop straight from the woods, dropped the deer off in his walk-in cooler with a paper tag attached, then come back the next day and take it to a check-in station since you have 48 hours to do so.

Would it have been legal to do so?

[buster]

Yes, as long as the paper tag had all the appropriate information on it.
Name
Address
Date of kill
Time of kill
County of kill
Sex of kill
Method of kill
License Number and type