2018 license

Thank you Sam. My how time does fly.

And regulation books in the paper copies are not free anymore. Just pocket version

I thought the advertising in the digest helped pay for printing them.

just printed my copy off very easy to do.

A bit of salt to the wound; PALS gets thier cut for another transaction.

LMAO yesterday when I picked up my new license. After handing the associate my CID# I was expecting the first question to be for a ID but instead, was asked if I wanted to pay $6.00 for a reg. book.

Ya gotta love it!!!

Received a postcard from the PGC concerning CWD. There will no longer be CWD permits in my area, but rather, they will try to control CWD through the use of a twist on the DMAP program.

If one wants, they can buy a DMAP permit at the same place one purchased a license. Sort of.

I contacted a friend of mine that typically has his ground in DMAP and asked him if I bought the permit while I was out getting my license, could I use it to hunt with him a few days on his ground. He emailed me back and said I better read the info on the PGC website and not just the postcard. He then asked, with an LOL, if he could hunt my property if he got the new DMAP.

It turns out that the new DMAP that replaced the CWD permit covers through two different DMAP numbers, most or parts of several counties. The interesting thing is that unlike the regular DMAP which requires the landowner to request their ground be put into DMAP and then handing out the permits, this new DMAP puts all the ground within the PGC designated area under DMAP, sells unlimited DMAP permits at any license point of purchase, then requires landowners to either allow or deny access to their ground by those holding a DMAP permit.

Keep in mind that none of these landowners were asked if they wanted to enroll in the program. In fact, had I not received the postcard, I would not even know the program existed until people started knocking on my door to ask permission for access.

I find it a tad presumptuous of the PGC to make the area designation (without landowner input); sell permits; and then put the burden of permitting or denying access on the landowners who may not even know the program exists.

It sounds an awful lot like stocking steelhead in waters that run through private land, then putting the burden on the landowners to permit or deny access. Then being surprised that land gets posted that was not previously posted.

For all the nashing of teeth and wringing of hands over whether permitting Sunday hunting or semi autos would cause land to get posted and there seems to be no thought whatsoever of having a parade of people bothering landowners for access because they already bought the DMAP permit and feel entitled to hunt in the areas the PGC outlined on a map. And that makes the presumption that they actually ask for permission and don't take the "I bought the license, so I can" attitude that some take with the purchase of a fishing license and Erie/trout permit with regard to steelhead.

Wait till you visit the Social security office and the guard has to keep your cane. Wonderful world we now live in.

Yea old habits are hard to break. I went back at 8:05 yea the Court house opens but not the treasurer department. lol Parking meter only takes quarters and it's a half hour. So I headed over to Marcos super market and bought some chicken breasts then headed back to the Court house,another quarter back through security and into the office. First girl tells me to go to another window,second women tells me she doesn't know how to do it,go the girl number three,bingo a winner. In the mean time A-Hole say hey how you doing, I told him not so good,that he is the cause of my trouble. I told him that I told you 3 times that I wanted everything on that licence as  last year. He say absolutely nothing and give me a stupid look. In the mean time another clerk tells him not to worry about it. Ha Well I told the second clerk your not the one with the inconvenience and after 52 years I'll be heading to Wal-Mart next year. I'm done with the Court house yin yans

How many ditch chicken stamps have been sold so far??+

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How many ditch chicken stamps have been sold so far??+

One, at least — LOL.

Since I raise English Pointers, PGC birds, even with the new permit, are cheap. We kill 150-200 over my dogs every year. If those were preserve birds (which we also do), the cost would be far greater since the going rate in my area is $32-$36 each, with a minimum of 10 per hunt.

Still, some old friends decided not to buy the permit, not because of cost, not because they now had to and didn’t for 50 years, but because it is priced higher than the general license— kind of like going to the $2 matinee movie and having to spring $10 for popcorn and $8 for a Coke.