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| Well hubby and I both have one (orange card). I know I was in 7th grade and it was a mandatory class even in the city (back in the 1980's). Hubby doesn't remember when or where he got his. Come to find out at the school that P2 goes to, they will not have a mandatory class. I have to wait until he's 10 and sign him up at the Ag Center building and if they have enough names then they will have a class at the fire station. To my understanding if the child is 8 or 9 they can sign up and go through the motion of the class but not receive a card. I did not even check to see if there was a fee to this. Does your school have a class for Hunter's Safety? Is it Mandatory? Where would you consider your school to be located in? MHS is out of the city limits.
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you can field without a licence until you are 12 here in PA, so long as you have an adult with you.
our Hunter's safety was not mandatory but it may as well have been.
on the farm they don't even require you get a licence so long as you follow the right guidelines. All I need is a note book.
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| Check with your state wildlife/hunting agency. They should be able to tell you when classes are offered, and what the age requirements are - the info is probably on their website. Most states now require mandatory hunter safety training, so I'd be surprised if your state doesn't. The good thing is, if it's mandatory, they'll likely do a pretty good job of offering classes. Here in PA you need to start early in the year to get a spot in a traditional class. Classes are held in spring/summer well BEFORE the major hunting seasons. By this time of year, there are almost none to be had. So check your state's schedule. A relatively new thing here in our state is an online option, where the student works through 11 chapters of material/review/pretests on their own schedule. Once they've finished, they spend an hour or so with a Wildlife Conservation Officer going over more safety and ethics issues, then take a Final exam. So that means the old 2 or 3 day class is now a home study course with a final test. That's what my 12-yr old did this year and he really enjoyed it. Got a lot more out of it by being able to work at his own pace too. Hope this helps.
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In Maine, if you have 10 acres or more and use it for agricultural purposes, you are allowed to hunt with no license or training class. You can even apply for special permits like Doe Permits and if you really hate certain species of wildlife like flying rats (wild turkeys) you can claim the salmonella they carry will kill your lambs and get nuisance permits to thin them out as well.
I love vegetarians...slice them real thin, dip them in ranch dressing and they compliment lamb quite well! :-)
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to discourage that sort of reason for shooting things ahead of season, say to get the big buck before anyone can.... they have red tags in pa. however if you use the crop damage card...everyone can go get a Red tag and come hunt.
however if it's a poor local looking to feed his family and he's not greedy or bragging, the man turns a blind eye. Also the best way in pa to get help from the game warden and perhaps be over looked for not getting a tag is to have open land and welcome as many people as is reasonable.
those who post, act hoggish and disscurage others from hunting probly get it worse than others.
I started at the age of 8 and have never missed a season since./
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Hmmm here in my state the Conservation Dept. goes to great lengths to make sure their regulations are easily acceptable and understood to all. Its down right laughable some of the stuff they have to do because some can't be bothered to simply think 
The Hunting community needs to relax on the regs a bit. The hunters around me are all hard core for as many nit picking regs on the any thing that allows farms to cull the wild pests down just so they can come out one weekend a year for their hobby while we have to live there, year round, going in the hole cause of some stupid wild life that are only a nusance because their numbers are so absurdly out of whack
And they wonder why I have "No trespassing, not even to ask for permission" signs up on my gate.
P.S. did you know they actually tried to vote into law the right to disregard no trespassing signs and gates on my driveway so they could ask permission to go hunting? I thought it was plain and clear.
No trespassing signs--check
Gate's on every entrance--check
Lock's on the driveway gate--check
House out of ear shot of driveway gate--check
Caller Id<- so they can't get in that way!---check
And still they think they have a chance if only they could ask permissions!! Gahhh
I wont even go into what I have seen hunters do to other farms in the area.
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| P.S.s. plz don't think look tward my place as a possible hunting opportunity FYI is all....
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I look at hunting a lot differently, first it is a long standing tradition in Maine and as a large landowner, I have always felt I own the land but I have never owned the wildlife, so managing the wildlife is just as important as managing the sheep that reside here. In my way of thinking, hunting is but one tool I use to control hunting and it works incredibly well.
Now I am NOT a hunter myself, but I do know that for others in the area, its a very big part of their lives, family legacy and heritage. I would not want to stop that in any way. I don't think it is right to stop others from enjoying my land or the taking of wildlife upon it if they do so responsibly. I do limit deer hunting because of two reasons:
1. Deer hunters tend to cause the most problems
2. The more deer there are, the more coyotes have to eat instead of my sheep
I just started negotiations with a neighbor for buying some of his land. He is an avid hunter and probably would not even consider selling some of his land if I was anti-hunting, did not let him or his friends hunt on my land, or barracaded myself behind gates to shut myself off from the outside world...jeesshh.. He can sell some of his land to me now knowing he no longer has to pay the property taxes on that land, yet will still be able to enjoy it, while my sheep merrily graze on it and I gain valuable arable land! The point here is, by being neighborly and allowing others to enjoy their preferred recreation, I get along in the community so much better and have options that recluses just don't have.
For every nasty hunter story I have, I have another that shows their kindness. With a lot of sheep on this farm, and a lot of coyotes, I don't think I could accept the coyote losses that would come from banning hunting on this farm.
I love vegetarians...slice them real thin, dip them in ranch dressing and they compliment lamb quite well! :-)
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Don't blame the deer hunters.. blame the fools who let great tradition and teaching opportunity go the hell.
There are so many things that served a greater goal in this life than what we presume. It is another indicator of how weak we are as people. Now we take JR our and try to get him a deer. To many the chance to tell your son about important things is lost, the old ways, the things your grandfather beleaved in.
ponder this one.. for ever nasty hunter story, there were 3 men who never made so much as a mark on the land you never knew they were there. we were told to do things that people no longer tell there kids. I was thinking a lot about this in the woods today as I waited for game.
Dad used to say, go into the woods and leave nothing behind but your boot prints.
TV is in part to blame. People see things on TV and do it that way. I never saw a 4 wheeler in deer season before TV and adds started pushing all this crap. I understand they must push products. If they told people to hunt the way I grew up doing it, they would have no sponsors. But this has lead to 4 wheelers in trucks and dummies learning to hunt at the age of 30 when they should have been spending time with Dad back in the day.
but there are many chances to improve on our cluture that we miss every day.
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| Wow, I can't belive WOS and I actually agree on something . . . 
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