Filling someone elses tag -

[farmlegend]

Honesty, do you think if a husband is going to have a wife buy a tag to shoot an illegal buck, that a hunter's safety class certification of completion is going to be an issue?

It is if she were born after 1960. If she were, and she doesn't have the hunter safety certificate, she cannot buy a hunting license in her name. Unless, of course, she compounds the crime further by signing an affidavit that she did pass the safety course.

Eventually, everyone's spouse will be born after 1960. Which is why the practice of wives buying tags in their names for their husbands to use is practically certain to decline.

[Frantz]

For the law abiding citizen, what good is a limit either way on doe or buck tags? Same to be said for anyone with any level of hunting or management ethics. The first couple years they gave out unlimited doe tags, I would get two - four and fill them, then it dawned on me that every other idiot was doing the same thing. I was not seeing as many deer and the comman sense kicked in. I would take a buck that met my criteria, or I would take either when it got late in the season so I would have meat in the freezer. I could use 4 in the freezer, and jerky and the lot, but what happens when it ends?

You have people in here that sadly say they would and fileld permits for others. That is not only illegal, but imoral and unethical. What good are limits if people, especially "Ethical" Sportsman, use these tactics to get around them. It negates the purpose.

[NorthJeff]

FL..I understand the law, I just don't think that will stop someone from having their wife (or husband..) buy a tag considering you can sign something saying you passed.

[Liver and Onions]

It is if she were born after 1960. If she were, and she doesn't have the hunter safety certificate, she cannot buy a hunting license in her name. Unless, of course, she compounds the crime further by signing an affidavit that she did pass the safety course.

Eventually, everyone's spouse will be born after 1960. Which is why the practice of wives buying tags in their names for their husbands to use is practically certain to decline.

fl,
Wasn't that you about 2 years ago talked about buying enough doe permits for your property so that your GUESTS would be able to take a doe ?
From what I have observered over the years, not as many women are buying tags for someone else to fill as men. In fact, most cases of filling another's license today is someone who hunts for a day or two and goes home empy-handed and asks if someone has a chance, can they fill his license. It might be a doe tag or a buck tag. Filling another's license is done rather often while fishing or duck/goose hunting. How many of you who are complaining about this have done that while bird hunting or fishing ?
In the past 10 years or so I've had about 20 guys ask me if i could fill a tag for them. They may have hunted and not gotten anything or simply didn't hunt that year & wanted vension. In most cases it was a younger buck born after 1960.
I see that we can take Hunter's Safety online now.......that should make it easy enough to get everyone in your family eligible to hunt.

L & O

[farmlegend]

fl,
Wasn't that you about 2 years ago talked about buying enough doe permits for your property so that your GUESTS would be able to take a doe ?

My guests have never had a problem with buying their own antlerless tags; since we went to the "one-a-day" system, my DMU has never sold out of them. Prior to that, I got DMAP tags which my guests legally used.

Incidentally, I didn't intend to start a thread on this; my post was moved from another thread.

I can tell you though, if we're talking about my wife - if I asked her to fraudulently certify that she had passed a hunter safety course (online or otherwise), simply so that I could harvest an extra deer, she'd tell me to gopissuparope. She's kinda square that way.

As for a one buck tag maximum, I'd absolutely agree that it makes little sense in areas where doe harvest needs to be limited, or even in areas with lesser archery harvests.

I do think it would be effective in my area, where yearling bucks really get butchered the first week of October, and there's ample does to take. I'd be happy to see Ohio-type regs in the southern lower; take 2, 3, 4, or however many deer your DMU allows you to take, with any weapon you wish, in any of the seasons, so long as only one of 'em is an antlered buck.

Incidentally, Ohio's archery season runs from 10/1 thru the end of January, with a one week long gun season beginning somewhere near December 1. Sounds good to me. If I had to do it over again, I might consider buying a farm in the Buckeye state.

[NorthJeff]

"If I had to do it over again, I might consider buying a farm in the Buckeye state."

Don't be surprised if you see me do that at some point in the next few years...WI,OH,IA The only problem now is that as U.P. hunting continues to decline...might not get the value out of the land I'd like to see when and if I sell.

[Whit1]

Guys, these threads about illegal activities and asking members if they'd do so are useless. Any member who is stupid enough to admit that here is either trolling for attention or well, just plain ol' stupid.