Low-Cost Apprentice Hunting Licenses Now Available
The Maryland Department of Natural Resourcesis offering a new hunting license for first-time hunters. The Apprentice Hunting License is available to residents and nonresidents of any age who never held a Maryland hunting license.
The apprentice license is $10 for residents and $20 for nonresidents, and provides the same privileges as other Maryland hunting licenses. It allows anyone interested in hunting a one-time chance to try the sport before committing to the more lengthy process of obtaining a traditional hunting license.
“Our hope is to provide the apprentice an opportunity to experience hunting in Maryland at a reduced rate and have them become lifelong hunters,” Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Paul Peditto said. “Hunters remain the primary source of revenue for conservation initiatives and are critical to the state’s wildlife management efforts.”
Individuals can get only one Maryland apprentice hunting license per lifetime and applicants must first pass a short, online hunter safety course offered by the Maryland Natural Resources Police.
When hunting, apprentice license holders must be accompanied and directly supervised by a fully-licensed Maryland resident, 18 years old or older, who must be close enough to take control of an archery device or firearm. An apprentice hunter can only hunt unaccompanied after successfully completing the full hunter safety course and receiving a Certificate of Competency in Firearms and Hunter Safety.
Licensed apprentice hunters can hunt deer, rabbit, squirrel, turkey and waterfowl. Appropriate stamps are needed to hunt migratory birds, deer and waterfowl with a bow or muzzleloader. Additionally, anyone 17 year old or older needs a Managed Hunt Permit to hunt in certain state parks.
“Our hope is to provide the apprentice an opportunity to experience hunting in Maryland at a reduced rate and have them become lifelong hunters,” Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Paul Peditto said. “Hunters remain the primary source of revenue for conservation initiatives and are critical to the state’s wildlife management efforts.”
Individuals can get only one Maryland apprentice hunting license per lifetime and applicants must first pass a short, online hunter safety course offered by the Maryland Natural Resources Police.
When hunting, apprentice license holders must be accompanied and directly supervised by a fully-licensed Maryland resident, 18 years old or older, who must be close enough to take control of an archery device or firearm. An apprentice hunter can only hunt unaccompanied after successfully completing the full hunter safety course and receiving a Certificate of Competency in Firearms and Hunter Safety.
Licensed apprentice hunters can hunt deer, rabbit, squirrel, turkey and waterfowl. Appropriate stamps are needed to hunt migratory birds, deer and waterfowl with a bow or muzzleloader. Additionally, anyone 17 year old or older needs a Managed Hunt Permit to hunt in certain state parks.
11 comments:
Let them guard CW statues, good shooting this weekend!
What they don't tell you is MD won't allow yoiu to access a firearm for said opportunity
I just tagged along with brothers and uncles until I was 16, no licenses, permits or "opportunities" required to pay yet another tax to the State! And, yes, 2:51, what is a fully licensed, course paid graduate, permitted 16 or 17 year old hunter supposed to do about buying a rifle or shotgun to go hunting with? Unless you're 18 plus a waiting period, you can't have a gun or ammo for the first 3 years of licensure.
But, at least Annapolis has their money to spend in cranes to destroy our Nation's history in the wee hours of the morning!
Future revenue to collect
The money collected for a hunting license all goes to wildlife management ,State parks and fed waterfowl stamp money goes to Federal parks and allows me to have free access year around. 20% tax on all firearms and ammo pays for the DNR operation so none of a non hunters tax dollars go for anything Hunting. Hunters pay for all there own needs and we pay the 6% sales tax which is above and beyond the 20% mentioned above just so everyone is clear on the subject
7:00 bingo. Hunting license sales must be down.
7{41 I call bs! there is no free access to fed parks! bottom line is DNR is a bottomless financial pit with no accountability to no one These are public lands and should be open to all hunters. Not just those who can afford (the rich) to pay an exorbitant fee! so what do the poor rural folks get?
The Illegal aliens will probably get to hunt for free. They get everything else.
I call moron cause your federal waterfowl stamp let's us smarter than you people get in for free ifin you could reads you mite knows dis
Yea 7:41
Anyone ever wonder why is it that most parks were acquired by someone who has donated their land for a park and as soon as that happens the governments first thing they do is put up fences, gates and chains all around it so no one can get in unless you pay them to use it while all the time stating to everyone that the parks and lands are all for the people to use, but don't ever try and sneak in one for you will be arrested and charged for trespassing
Go figure
2:06 the roads, restrooms,and anything else that is needed to use the parks isn't put there and maintained by the park fairies. It's not like when the government check fairy poops in your mailbox every month. Real people pay for these services to be there it's not free like Obamacare wait I pay for that too.
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