When will we get rid of this madness

Outside of Wisconsin, who makes you wear a billboard on you back.  what other states beside PA make you display your liscnese on you back.


Will we ever catch up, its time to end this madness and let me keep it in my wallet like the rest of the free world.

easy fix. get out.

I don't think many hunters care.  I don't carry my wallet in the woods.

I don't like to carry my wallet in the woods. I'd rather keep the rule as it is now.

Like someone said earlier, the license being displayed allows us to turn someone in for a violation....if we can get a license number.

What's the big deal with wearing it on your back?  It makes sense for so many reasons except for one: if you already have an axe to grind it gives you something else to complain about.
 
 
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Trout I agree with you on the size.  It was hard enough seeing the letters on the old ones, but at least it could be done. These new ones is next to impossible.
 
 
Having a license on your back holds you accountable.  It literally gives you a number, something you can be tracked with.  I fail to see what is wrong with that not just from abiding by game laws but also from a safety standpoint.  Enough people think they can get away with anything as it is, not displaying them would make things much, much worse.
 
 
Besides, if you ever saw someone out in the woods with a gun or bow not wearing one, you can automatically assume they are up to no good.......right?  What's so bad about that?
 
 
 
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with the new licenses i think they can be displayed anywhere. does nto have to be on your back.  I carry a waist pack and put it on there this year

Seriously folks.  PA needs to get out of the dark ages.  We have wallet size licenses now, let's keep them in our wallets, alright.  I'm sure we collectively could come up with more good reasons to eliminate the back tag than not.

Just to name a few.

No more getting caught and knocked off going through heavy brush.  Always having to check.  Do I still have my license?
No double holders for the doe tag flopping around.
No more holes in jackets w/o the special loop.
No more wet tags.
No more switching back and forth between hunting coats, orange vests, during the overlap.  That's not to mention backpack.

Cripes.  And the deputies only check people on the side of the road anyway, so what's the difference between turning around and getting out your wallet?  You have to anyway to show your ID.

IMO I think its a pain when I hunt waterfowl because it flares birds.  Might as well wear a mirror on my back.

With the new license size there is no reason to display it. WCO told me that if it was changed, they would have to disrupt people's hunts more often to check licenses.

Funny, when I hunt colorado, they are courteous enough to wait until I have finished hunting or am at a point where they will not disturb my hunt much.

i keep an expired driver's license in my license holder and change it every 4 years when i get a new expired one. if the occifer wants to see a current ID, he can walk with me to the truck so i can get my wallet. never been hassled for not having a hunting license on my back so long as i have a hunting license.

I agree with musky on the courtesy of WCO's and I'll throw in Fish Wardens too...

luckily i've never run into them in the woods... they've only ever been waiting at the truck when we get back.

Been my experience in 30 years of hunting they never come into the woods looking for you unless they get a tip somethings up in that area.   If it happens over and over and over again to someone, then I'd say there's a pattern in there somewhere that needs addressed.  Just sayn'.
 
If it just hapenned once, then chalk it of to "one of those things".
 

Still, what's the big deal if it happens once.  I'd say it's good to know they are out there making honest attempts at doing their jobs.  But maybe that axe is still laying around, having to get grinded again.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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All you can see now is a yellow box on a back.

No one is going to be able to get your numbers unless you are sitting with them.

I for one, when getting permission to hunt, give the land owner, my license #, phone number, and a description of any vehicles I may park on or around his property.  This year the land owner is getting several pounds of pepper stick from a successful hunter.

When a WCO sees you with one on they check you -- so what changes for them -- Ive been checked before in different areas and never had one look from the distance and say.  "Yea, that one in your holder looks like this years from here, your ok."

Yes it is a "matter of convenience."  A plate on your 4 wheeler stays on it..you dont have to transfer it to a different coat every time the weather changes or a new season comes in or worry about losing it.  Hell I remember a few years ago when the GC tried to get the turkey hunters killed by giving the things a blue tint...LMAO.

The Digest and the law contradict one another!!!

PAGE 84 of the Pennsylvania Hunting and Trapping Digest says this:

"Display:  Hunting and furtaking licenses can be folded to fit in a license holder.  If you are checked by a wildlife conservation officer or the landowner while afield, you must have all appliacable hunting  and furtaker licenses on your person, along with positive ID to confirm identification and residency."

"can be folded"  is not must be folded or must be displayed! 

I add this statement to my friends who told me last night while I was speaking of this thread that "when I asked the guy at wal-mart if he had any holders to fit the new licenses he told me that you dont need to display them any more." 

I then searched the PDF of the digest for this year for the word display, displaying or displayed and none of the hits have anything to do with displaying your license.

The offical code says:

Sec. 2711. Unlawful acts concerning licenses.
(a) General rule. - Except as otherwise provided in this title, it is unlawful for any person to:

(1) Hunt or take any game or wildlife by any means or manner or device, including the use of dogs, without first securing and personally signing and displaying the required license.


so until that is changed I will continue to display mine, but I wont like it. 
Remember: the digest is not the law, when your arrested, they cite the "Code" not the digest.