You’d think at least they’d make you pay the resident fee for your own property. As a resident and property owner you can hunt your property for free. I get paying the non-resident fee to hunt elsewhere in the state, but hunting your own property should either be free or at most the resident hunting license rate.
Hunting Liscense rant
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I’m guessing the logic is once someone has a license, even a non resident property owner, the individual can hunt anywhere in the state.
Blackstar65
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It's your land who is going to know you are hunting it?
delaware_export
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That defies logic. From the property owner hunting their own perspective.
Instate property owners don’t need a license to hunt their own land. But to hunt anywhere else in the state, they do.
It’s just a “you don’t live here any more” thing.
Instate property owners don’t need a license to hunt their own land. But to hunt anywhere else in the state, they do.
It’s just a “you don’t live here any more” thing.
steves1911
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Due to multiple incidents with pos poachers dnr randomly drives back our farm lane ( we have asked them to do so) . They know me and have never asked for my lisc but id rather not risk losing my rights.
bigmanindc
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So its ok to commit a crime if you reasonably think you can get away with it?
Doco Overboard
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Think about this for a second, your from another state, hunting your own property and next thing you know your on somebody else without even realizing it. Or, you have to retrieve a deer that ran onto somebody else. Are you still legal once your across the line? Absolutely not, your hunting without a license and trespassing/ hunting without written permission or a license.
Things could get worse if you injure yourself or damage someone else's property unwittingly.
Things could get worse if you injure yourself or damage someone else's property unwittingly.
Yep. When you buy a hunting license, it's for all public lands in the state in addition to any private lands you are allowed to hunt.
It's also a deterrent to prevent folks from out of state buying up property to solely hunt on.
Biggfoot44
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- Aug 2, 2009
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Not necessarily . Va ( and I think WV) require a National Forest Stamp to hunt on USFS lands .
WV does. It's $2 regardless of out of state or in state. I think it's a Fed law/rate/stamp, hence it being so cheap.
Muleskinner
Ultimate Member
Do what my uncle does...butcher your own and don't buy a license. He has property in Allegheny Co. He refuses to pay the state to hunt his own land. The only "negative" is that he can't take his deer to a butcher so he does it himself. NRP can't legally enter his (or anyone else's) property without cause so he's not worried about being "caught". He has lived there for over 30 years and never bought "permission" to hunt his own land.
Biggfoot44
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- Aug 2, 2009
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If he lives there he doesn't need a Lic .
bigmanindc
Active Member
LOL Nice legal advice!!!!!!!
Per DNR, if you are a Maryland resident, you don’t need a hunting license. You do need a hunters safety certificate or predate the program hunting. Harvests must be reported, which I assume he hasn’t been doing.
Yeah DNR needs a reason to enter private property, but someone reporting he’s hunting there is legal cause. Or hearing a gun shot. Or observing someone hunting.
I can't even imagine the "resident of DC " thing at all!
bigmanindc
Active Member
He doesn't live there!!!!!!!
Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
A Maryland resident that is the land owner is not required to buy a license. They do not need to live there.
You are not required to possess a Maryland
hunting license if you are:
• a resident of Maryland (or their spouse)
who owns property and who hunts only
on that property. This also applies to:
» The landowner’s children and grandchildren if they are under the age of 16.
» The landowner’s children and grandchildren, and the spouse of the children or grandchildren, regardless of
age, if the child, grandchild, or their
spouse lives on the property, or has
worked on the property for at least
30 days during the preceding 12
months, or manages the property.
(Each person must individually qualify
under these criteria. To qualify for this
exemption, a landowner does not need
to live on the property but must be able
to prove ownership.)
You are not required to possess a Maryland
hunting license if you are:
• a resident of Maryland (or their spouse)
who owns property and who hunts only
on that property. This also applies to:
» The landowner’s children and grandchildren if they are under the age of 16.
» The landowner’s children and grandchildren, and the spouse of the children or grandchildren, regardless of
age, if the child, grandchild, or their
spouse lives on the property, or has
worked on the property for at least
30 days during the preceding 12
months, or manages the property.
(Each person must individually qualify
under these criteria. To qualify for this
exemption, a landowner does not need
to live on the property but must be able
to prove ownership.)
bigmanindc
Active Member
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
A lot. They eat a few pounds of food a day.
The point is, he’s poaching when he doesn’t even have to, since based on description he isn’t reporting harvests. Though I suspect based on location and description he’s probably also at least exceeding bag limits and probably also hunting outside seasons.
But some people don’t really care about proper management of wildlife, other people, etc.
bigmanindc
Active Member
Wait, what, where did you get all this from?
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