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Post by tailchaser on Oct 16, 2006 21:57:49 GMT -5
Hey I don't know how many folks know this but your hunting license this year is just that. It is no longer a hunting and trapping license. You have to purchase a 5.00 furbearer license to trap or shoot a fur bearer that includes foxes. If you don't purchase it this year you will have to take a trappers course next year to get it. If you buy it this year you are grandfatered in! Check it out it could save you some problems down the road.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Oct 17, 2006 7:22:49 GMT -5
Thanks for the info. I read that & bought mine when I got my licensce, but I'm sure some of you guys missed it.
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Post by reed on Oct 17, 2006 11:28:09 GMT -5
I missed it. I don't chase any furbearers but hate the idea of takin ANOTHER class just to do something I have been doing my whole life. I have had a hunting class, boating class, need a motorcycle class, archery class and now a furbearers class, why can't we just test out of the class when we buy our license the first time?
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Post by BIG FOX on Oct 17, 2006 11:58:29 GMT -5
thatis a great idea. i think if you have been raised hunting your whole life and taught properly you should be able to test out of the class and show that you are safe and ethical. pretty lame they make you take all these classes to do something that comes natural to most of us. the classes are a good idea for new hunters but the class i took back in the day i could have taught. i knew more than the instructor just form learning from my family and being in the scouts. the guy teaching the class was a dulard..
i had a friend go a take the hunter safety course last year and the way he explained it was a joke anyway. go in for 3 or 4 nights and then go out and shoot 2 or 3 guns one time. i thnk he shot a 22 rifle and a shotgun and he was not required to even hit anything. basically pulled the trigger and walked away. i took my course in Utah and we were require to shoot i believe it was 30 rounds of 22 rifle and had to qualify with at least 22 or 23 kill shots or you failed. i shot my dads ruger 10/22 and got a 29 out of 30 when i was like 9 or 10. not to bad but just shows you i was taught correctly and knew what i was doing. there was a young lady in the course that had to have her father pump a 22 pump rifle so she could shoot her shots, it made me sick...
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Oct 17, 2006 12:01:00 GMT -5
Testing out may be a good idea, but it's not the case. If you ever think you may want to trap game, this would be the year to spend the $5 & buy the permit so you are grandfathered in for the future!!!!!!!!!
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Oct 17, 2006 12:01:52 GMT -5
When I took the course, you didn't even shoot a gun. All a written test.
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Post by BIG FOX on Oct 17, 2006 12:04:56 GMT -5
what a joke.
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Oct 17, 2006 14:44:09 GMT -5
Tailchaser I was going to post the same thing. Last year was my first year seriously trapping. Got a few beavers, muskrats, raccoons, and possums. Going after some red and gray foxes this year. Its a lot of fun to check traps and the morning and not know what is waiting for you. I tell everyone the same thing, if you think you might trap one day, spend the 5 bucks and save yourself some time. I'm not saying the class is a bad thing, it is probably helpful to begginers. I had to read a lot of books and didn't know anyone else who trapped. I would have taken the class back then just for some hands on experience.
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Post by osprey on Oct 17, 2006 15:48:53 GMT -5
I think this one is just a kick in the scrotum! It was originally put in as a Bill supported by both PETA and the MD Fur Trappers, but for different reasons. The anti's just wanted to hassle us, but the trappers wanted some count of how many trappers and support for trapping seasons and research. But by the time DNR and the General Assembly got done it applied to all. Now if you even want to shoot a raccoon or nutria with your bow while deer hunting you've got to have the $5 stamp!! At least the class is only for trapping, you'll still just be able to get the stamp to shoot and hunt foxes, coons, etc. Do you notice that even the fancy fox hunters on horseback will have to get the stamp? This is sort of like the free license deal this year. Used to be all landowners, kids, kids spouses. Bill was put in to add grandkids and step grandkids and such, but when DNR and the GA got done it changed it all so that only landowners and their kids/grandkids under 16 didn't need a license. Next year we've got to be more careful about what happens to Bills we support in the GA, and follow them all the way through the process. They slipped a bunch by us this year...
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Oct 17, 2006 16:30:20 GMT -5
AMEN Brother! I want to launch an anti-PETA campaign. I feel the humane society is just as bad.
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Post by reed on Oct 18, 2006 11:26:03 GMT -5
The problem, like all things politics, it seems the vocal minority get their way because they cry the loudest. We assume hunting and gun ownership is a right and won't go away so we don't make any noise. The problem is the anti's crying is loud and the politicians want to keep their votes. So now we need to take more classes, spend more money to hunt and fish, and worry that our kids and grandkids will never be able to experience it because they will never be allowed to own a gun.
This whole topic pisses me off. It is one of the only topics that can really get me pissed at someone. I have no respect for anti-hunters or PETA. If you don't like hunting, then don't hunt. It is your right to not have to participate or support it, but don't take my rights away because of some unrealistic view of how animals should act and be treated. As said above, we are animals eating animals. I don't see lions being sued for eating zebras, we are ALL a part of nature but logic doesn't count in the PETA kingdom.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Oct 18, 2006 11:28:20 GMT -5
Well said. Glad to have you on this forum.
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Post by BIG FOX on Oct 18, 2006 13:48:30 GMT -5
i agree too... freakin pansies
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