Not completely true. I was able to purchase my license before I took the course online here in Texas. Though I already took mine as a kid in Colorado, I just did the Texas version the day before I went hunting.
@@derekmortensen1665 Texas recognizes hunters safety certification from all other states and provinces. If you took it as a child in Colorado and passed and got certified then you did not need to take it in Texas.
It’s 100 % about safety and promoting interest in hunting Pittman Robertson act has literally helped bring the eastern wild Turkey, whitetail deer, and other species back from the brink of extinction and also kept hunting accidents low.
@@patrickgrolemund545 Maybe back then, but it’s 2023 everything is a money grab especially when the government is involved… What you said is outdated, but it sounds good.
To be fair most regulations are extremely helpful for conservation. If you leave it to the public to regulate themselves that would go terrible. The bad 10% can quickly ruin everything for the 90%. also anyone going out with a rifle definitely needs some type of hunters ED. It takes about 30 minutes to pass and you're good for a lifetime and if you can't pass it then you need it even more honestly
@@johnbracewell3700 but everyone already does take hunter saftey. What this guy is suggesting is either making hunters take it in every state they want to hunt in, or force states to share this information with each other (which I'm not necessarily against tbh). But I can tell you unequivocally that you cannot buy a hunting license in CA without proof of hunters saftey. I took a long break from hunting that started before CDFW digitized everything and when I decided I wanted to start hunting again 5 years ago, I had to find my certificate of completion from 1998 and bring it into Bass Pro before I could get a license. Now that I'm in the system, I don't have to show it every year. I assume most states are this way as well.
This regulation is literally to protect lives. There are some very stupid people out there and can, have, gotten themselves and others killed due to their incompetence. I completely agree with the speaker in this video.
Underrated comment I totally agree just like the electric cars a ploy to take driving away from us this guy just naming something they can add more laws to
Yep, the world needs to be absolutely black and white like it is in your mind. These regulations guarantee my grandchildren will be able to enjoy hunting and fishing like I do today, so that morons like you who use the constitution to abandon all moral code can't absolutely obliterate our wildlife, no matter how hard you try.
that’s EXACTLY how it is here in NY been that way for almost 20 years that i’ve been hunting, my girlfriend took her gun course this year and they would not give her archery tags since she did not have a completion letter from her bow course
My steps dad took me to South Carolina when I was 13 years old and we hunted. It’s been that way since. I took my safety course the year prior when I was 12 years old. I’m not on board with the idea of everyone having to show proof that you took it when you were taught from an early age. Just my personal opinion
The diligence of your parents/grandparents does not protect you from the negligence of someone else's when you are in the woods. Hunting accident rates have steadily declined since the the adoption of required formal H.S. courses. You may not have needed it, but a lot of people did.
If these classes are going to be required they need to be 100% subsidized. It is unconstitutional to charge for a right in any capacity. Yet it’s still done.
It's pretty easy to not be found. Always use a bow dude get dropped off and have with you cover, combustion container, cutting tools, cordage and a compass.
I support that absolutely especially when even no matter now how much you pay there's no guarantee for a tag for any hunt. It's FUCKED. I suspect that in Utah that residents take the back seat to out of state hunters as they pay more. The UTAH DNR seems utterly inept and it's all about control of we the people for profit.
The first license you buy when you start hunting you need a hunter safety certificate for. Hunter safety is intended to be a one time deal. It’s done tremendously well at preventing most accidents while hunting.
Montana gives you a designation number. So there is in fact a way to keep up with whether you have done it or not. And they ask for it to get the license and your tags every year.
Didn't even show proof when I got my first Montana license last year. Only gave my DL and address. I moved up here the year prior. But yes, most of the systems are automated now, and there's records kept.
That’s what I was wondering. Cuz from when I could bow hunt in Michigan (was age 10) and rifle hunt (was age 12), up until I had a Driver’s license, I had to show them my DNR Sportcard (which you get from passing hunter safety)
I was so angry when they passed the hunter safety course rule in the 80s because I had already been hunting for five years with my dad and had been taught a lot more from him than that course ever taught me. My dad who didn't have to take it because of his age took it with me because he knew I didn't want to and knew that i was already well versed in hunting and safety.
My wife bought her first hunting license this year. we asked for a apprentice license and the guy at walmart asked why we wouldnt just buy a regular license for her and my reply was she never took hunters safety. the guy said oh that doesnt matter. was dumbfounded.
When I was a kid in Minnesota I had to take a hunters safety corse to buy my first license. When I moved to Iowa I had to show proof of taking a hunters safety before buying my first tag. And now its all in the system.
I don't go into the woods during gun season.. even on my own property. I don't trust these folks to positively identify the target before pulling the trigger.
Your hunter's safety license number is your hunting license number. So yes, if you have a hunting license that has a hunting license number they know you took the course
The problem with buying a hunting license , is the fact that you have to BUY a license to hunt to begin with. A man shouldn’t have to pay the government anything to hunt or fish. But we put up with the robbery and pretend it’s for our own good lol. Oh me 🤦♂️
When I moved to Missouri, they required me to provide them with my original hunters education number from Ohio. Also, certain states still require an archery certification. Alaska is one of them. You can take the certification test in Alaska or your home state.
All states enforce it, if your putting your trust into Walmart that’s where you fell off. Next time you shoot a deer drag that SOB down the isles and say yeah I’m here to check this in. They won’t have a fucking clue or care. We are hunters not hunters red light special hunters.
Indiana has a system that you must go thru to get your license and the guys at Walmart take your drivers liscense and enter in your info and it pops up with all your hunting info including you hunter safety id number. If you’re born after 1986 and aren’t getting an apprentice license you can’t purchase a tag unless you have that number on you or in the system.
Buying a license is just money going back to the state department that manages the conservation. It's when your stopped by an officer in the field while hunting is when you're asked to show proof of Hunter education if you are of age or were born after the date in which Hunter education became a mandate due to that States laws. I know lots of people who buy hunting licenses and don't go hunting to support conservation.
Imagine not understanding that they put in your drivers license number into the computer and their software tells you if you have the certification or not. Source: I work at a store that sells hunting licenses.
In Canada, Saskatchewan, you have to prove it the first license you purchase. Then they have it on record for the rest of your life. I had to prove it when I purchased a Manitoba (out of province or Canadian resident) license for Bear. Never asked in the field. Only when I was 12 buying my first tag.
Here in Washington you either have to have your certificate or you can get a free hunter safety course certificate card in hunter orange from fish and game. It’s a good quality card as well. Also I’d rather there be less restrictions on getting a license and/or tags, along with many other things. I mean just being able to find public land is already hard enough and then add on that everyone and their mother hunt it.
What I don't understand is that in my state is you can get a 1 year exempt hunter safety course license so what's the point of letting someone go out for a year but after that you have to take the course!!
The bad thing is that it is required, i had a combo license from Walmart for hunting and fishing, and one time while hunting i was surprised by the Game Warden and asked for my hunter’ Education, i had no answer since i didn’t know that was a thing , just thought i needed that license from walmart but he ended up giving me a warning cause i explained i didn’t know about that and that they didn’t even ask me for that in walmart and he said “they don’t ask anymore” 45$ bucks later and now i’m fully licensed
Yes there is, its called false application of license. Happened to me. I was too young for the hunting safety card to be valid. I didn't take the class again when older
Texas has a hunter ed number that prints out on our licenses to verify that you've taken them, and i believe out-of-state hunters have to have verification from their state. Game wardens definitely check for it.
I've lived in texas my entire life and renewed my license every year and also in south dakota, the numbers may be there but they mean absolutely nothing. I have never once taken a hunters safety course. Gun safety and common sense is all you need to know.
Hey! Elmer fuds out there, if nothing happens when you pull the trigger don’t look down the barrel. But if your friend points it at you remember to stick your finger in the barrel . Gun safety is not “hold my beer while I shoot at those bushes that just moved. “ some of the idiots out there should go to a safety class.
That's BS here in Washington State you can't buy a hunting license without going through hunter's ed 1st. It's under your fish and wildlife account it will say if you past hunters ed or not and if you don't have the hunter's ed certification it won't let you buy hunting license
Not true. If you’re born in 1960 or after you have to have completed a hunters safety course to purchase a base license. When i did my course back in the early 2000s almost half the classes moms or dads who were there the entire time anyway just paid the fee and took the test at the end so they could hunt with their kids.
That number is in the system. My son just completed his class and had to show proof when getting his first license. His info is in the system from here on out. Montana even requires a bear identification test, and ues that is saved in the system from that day on.
Minnesota "lost" a friend's hunting safety course record in 2022. It's attached to your driver's license number (my hunter safety number i recieved at 12 is now my drivers license number). He had been hunting for several years previously but the DNR "doesn't make mistakes" to paraphrase their response when they were called. He had to retake the class. Even though they "don't make mistakes" they had to either lose his record or sold him several licenses previously while he was not certified. Either way they had made a mistake and the guy on the other end of that phone call made them look professionally foolish.
PA has an online record of your hunters safety course and you need to show it to purchase your first license. After that, if you’ve had a license you’ve already had the course.
I traveled to WV and had a HUGE issue as a kid over my hunter's safety card having 1 blob of ink that covered 1 number of my birth year. I traveled 800 miles to hunt and told the lady that I was hunting tomorrow with, or without, their $300 stamps. Now it's all digital.
I don’t know who’s all seeing this, but if you haven’t go, treat yourself to this gem. There’s a hunter safety video with Jim Varney that he made back in the day and it is great! Definitely should be a part of hunters safety
my brother drove hundreds of miles to hunt with me and he forgot his safety card and they wouldn't sell it to him. we still shot birds at a discount price because they didn't wanna take our money.
NY requires hunter safety, bowhunter safety, etc. Proof of completion must be presented upon purchase of license for first time. Proof of completion is then recorded in state database and does not need to be presented every year.
In west Virginia you have to enter your hunter safety course number or you can't get the license. It's a 2 day ordeal designed to stop people from hunting in order for the land to be sold to "elites".
@@beneaglen4373 anywhere in west virginia that sells hunting licenses. They use a computer system that asks for a hunter safety number or it takes it from your ID automatically. You cannot get a hunting license in WV without completing the hunter safety course unless you were born prior to 1975.
I know a guy that bought a fishing license and forgot to buy a hunting license but then they sold him a turkey tag and he dident have a hunting license
In Alabama you have a hunters ED certificate number you need that or you have to get a supervised hunting license. If you have a supervised license you have to stay within 10 feet of someone with a hunters ED certificate
they ask for your hunter ed ID # on your first license , they will enter it and see if the class has been completed online (12 hours). Then they will then sell you a license and your hunter ed ID remains connected to your account
It says in the system that you have taken it. Once you have your license once you are renewing licenses. Therefore, common sense would tell you that if you already have a license where it is required to have a hunter safety course, you have taken a hunter safety course.
It's been in the system ever since you were giving a customer identification number that's how you get the number by finishing the hunter safety course
I'm 49, never had a hunters safely corse. Fortunately I was old enough that I never had to do this. I started shooting when I was five. Started hunting when I was six. I was trained by my dad and his brothers. Where I'm from, guns and hunting are apart of our everyday life. So your telling me that you want the government to be more involved in your life. I know tons of people that took the hunters safely corse. I wouldn't be caught in the woods with any of them. The hunters safely corse is nothing but a way for the government to get more money out of you. It's a joke to say because someone took a corse. They are now safe to go hunt.
You don’t understand what America is about buddy. The Gov needs to keep its greedy nose out of our business. Guns are our right to fight the tyranny of govt. not hunt to hunt. And hunting is a god given right and not the state or feds business
They have records in PA. They dont require proof at time of purchase, they ask if you've had one. However, if they wanted to, they could look into it later and fine you. Its a weird system. Should just be a stamp on your drivers license or something.
New hunter here 👋🏽 I completed the hunters-ed course prior to my first duck hunt down in Anahuac Texas a few weeks ago. Super valuable & full of knowledge that you just can’t get watching a RU-vid video. When it comes to the outdoors I personally believe responsibility is top tier & mandating a course is the minimum of what should be done especially with so many folks in public or US corps of engineers land. I’ve decided it’s required to go hunting with me and I expect the same from others as well. Nothing wrong with SOP’s and standards.
In Wyoming if you took hunters safety in Wyoming it shows on your license that you have. If you took it in another state Wyoming requires you to carry proof that you have taken hunters safety
He’s saying I don’t want to get shot by someone that doesn’t know basic hunting safety rules and I agree. There are some idiots out there that don’t know how to be safe
Now I was a lot younger when buying my first license but I’m pretty sure I had to show proof but when I’ve bought my license now ik they look to see if you’ve been licensed in the past and if you had you’ve taken the class too. Fair point though it is something to definitely consider
When you buy your first license in Iowa your hunter safety certificate is required. It is then put on file for the rest of your life. Personal responsibility dictates you keep up with laws and read available docs online. All the hunter safety material is available for free. I do agree though that people need to be held more accountable, it’s just like driving. If you never miss your renewal you never have to retest and clearly there are people on the road who need to retest
Not NV! It’s a online test that takes a week then two days classroom. All licenses are through NDOW and your not getting one with out being in the system. Honestly took it 35 years since my last one , best decision ever.
It is actually in the system for Florida. It is on your license, you can not get a License without it or proof. Now if you have your old license, that acts as proof.
In my state u have to give the hunter safety course id number to get an unsupervised license. It's on the hunting license. If u don't have it u have to b supervised and the game warden will check that.
New York has a record of both regular hunting and bow hunting safety courses through their DECALS program. Can’t get a hunting license without providing proof the first time. After that it’s linked to your name/ drivers license #
In NY the only way to get your first license is to show your hunter safety course certificate, by getting that first license and having it registered in the state database ensures you took and passed the course.
Florida you have to prove it with the license number but you can put it off for a year to see if you actually like it, but you have to be accompanied by a licensed hunter
Not so in Utah, you have to have passed a Hunter Safety Course and you cannot get a license without proof, afterwards your DNR number has that recorded, or you can use any past hunting license which merely proves the DNR has issued you a number.
This is completely wrong based off of my experience. Your hunter safety is linked with your drivers license, so in hind sight you are showing them both at the same time and this is in Minnesota. Also, in Wisconsin it is linked with your drivers license, and if you are out of state they make you punch in your gun safety numbers and how safety numbers.
When I bought my Kansas hunting license to hunt waterfowl 2 years ago (MN Resident here) I had to provide my hunter safety certification number. But to his point I've never been asked to produce my certificate. At the same time, no one should HAVE to complete it to exercise a basic human right.
In PA they check the first time you buy a lic, it gets entered and each year thereafter they ask for your drivers lic to pull up your info. In CO you must carry your hunters ed card with you and they always ask for it in CO. If you buy a lic online you must enter the hunters ed card no or date on the card
Georgia checks to see if you complete hunter safety by your SSN. Speaking only on downloading the Georgia DNR app and registering etc etc, that’s how I buy my licenses and claim my tags
