PA Hunting License Information

[Dredly]

Originally Posted by Buckmark.35

Legally yes you do. Others have posted that they have gotten a license without taking the course. Mostly due to the fact that many license vendors are under the mistaken impression that you don't need the course after you're 18. The course is mostly common sense stuff, but it's required if you want to get a license, and let's face it...There are worse ways to spend a weekend.

bah all you need is to get a license once and then you can use that as proof that you had one in the past and everyone will sell you a new one, including the state off the website..

if you need a license Walk into Walmart, tell them you need a license, if they ask (haha yeah right) tell them you lost last years and they will sell you one.

I've had several friends do this.

[Archiver]

Originally Posted by ham385

74Blazer, your signature indicates you are a marine. If you are still active, reserve, or within 6 months of your discharge date, you are not required to take the hunter safety course. (It's in the hunter safety affidavit section of the license applicaton)

Thats cool but quite unfair. Killing people isn't exactly like hunting safely. Just because you've served your country (Thanks and welcome home btw) doesnt mean you know how to hunt safely!

Sure there is safe firearm handling componant in hunting class...but that seems like the State is doing an "end run" and its really an illegal firearms education course.

[ham385]

Originally Posted by Archiver

Thats cool but quite unfair. Killing people isn't exactly like hunting safely. Just because you've served your country (Thanks and welcome home btw) doesnt mean you know how to hunt safely!

Sure there is safe firearm handling componant in hunting class...but that seems like the State is doing an "end run" and its really an illegal firearms education course.

Not trying to start an argument here, but I disagree. The tricky thing about killing people is to not shoot your buddy by accident, or civilians for that matter. Firearms safety is a big part of weapons training, and indiscretions are dealt with swiftly and almost brutally by the chain of command.

As far as fairness goes, you gave up 8 hours to sit through a class. Over the course of my 6 years I gave up a week in basic training, one day/year for qualification, a month of MOUT training, as well as countless hours of rehearsals, and more time than I want to think about doing it for real. All of this involved situational awareness, knowing your target and what is beyond, and muzzle awareness, which I rarely see from someone who just took a hunter safety course.

[Pooch15825]

Though people can walk in and get a license without a copy of a hunters safety course, if you are into hunting and want to hunt in other states, they require proof of passing a hunters safety course in your state in order to be licensed in theirs. At least it used to be that way. Now, if you were born before the start of the hunter safety course, you were not required to take it, I was, but I have taken it 3 different times, when each of my kids were 12 I took it with them. It was well worth the time.
Pooch15825

[Ret-Fed]

You may want to consider the legal (i.e. lawsuit) ramifications of being involved in a hunting accident (as the "shooter") and you lied about having attended a PGC Hunter Education course in order to obtain a hunting license.

[freedomfighter]

i would feel much more comfortable going hunting with a Marine then with a redneck hillbilly! no matter how many ppl he may or may not have killed.