New hunting license?

djmay71 said:
Likewise- I'm ok with the current system.
Here's a conumdrum, in which I'd like an answer: I still don't have my fishing tag for this year. (I don't ice fish, and therefore is not an issue) I'll be getting this tag in the next week. Sometime before summer, I'll be getting my hunting papers.
What to do from there? Take in my proof of hunting training papers into the MNR (Service Ontario) and say I'd like a fishing/hunting card now?
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Once you get your tag for fishing the MNR will send you a fishing outdoors card (8-12 weeks). Once you pass your hunter safety course, take the exam papers to service Ontario and they will upgrade your fishing outdoors card to a hunting outdoors card (no extra charge) and you will be able to get your hunting tags as well. The only charge you should pay is the cost of your hunting tags, (small game, deer, etc).

Hope this helps,

-Jason
 
blasted_saber said:
You still get an outdoors card. You no longer get stickers as licenses. You are now issued licenses and seals ("tags") as one piece. Upon harvesting the animal, you seperate the license from the seal and attach the seal to the animal. The license-seal combo are a plasticy-paper type thing similar in feel to the new $100 bills. They fold up nicely to the same size as an outdoors card (but much thinner-paper thin) thus fit nicely in a wallet. Small game and fishing obviously dont have seals, so you only get the license.

Where I hunt, I have to purchase a seal for a wolf. Ive got it sitting here in front of me. Nothing is worn as a lanyard, or pinned to you. It all fits very nicely in a wallet (better then the old tags which were all oddball sizes). They also appear to be more durable, and in particular less susceptible to being smeared by blood, rain, mud etc.
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really? the tag and the game seal are the same piece now? i'v only got my fishing so far this year so i havn't gotten any game seals yet, but i have the new piece of paper licence. I posted a thread a while ago about this. You can carry it however you wish be it on a lanyard, pinned to you, in your wallet, etc. as long as it is with you.
 
thebuckhunter said:
Once you get your tag for fishing the MNR will send you a fishing outdoors card (8-12 weeks). Once you pass your hunter safety course, take the exam papers to service Ontario and they will upgrade your fishing outdoors card to a hunting outdoors card (no extra charge) and you will be able to get your hunting tags as well. The only charge you should pay is the cost of your hunting tags, (small game, deer, etc).

Hope this helps,

-Jason
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Thanks for the info.
But does that mean I'll have to carry both the Outdoors Card and my fishing tag? What a pain in the ***.
 
does that mean I'll have to carry both the Outdoors Card and my fishing tag? What a pain in the ***.
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And the penny drops - the way it has been was OK - but it's changed now.

That was a point above I made. No stickers on card now - sooo must carrry card plus licences (5 for me) plus seals to put on animal. Now card does nothing except be a way the MNR picks your pocket every three years - or else fine you if you don't have it with you. Last year the card and all your licenses were only one thing to keep track of. Not so now. But it's seems that some here like being more papered up before setting a foot outdoors.

You can carry it however you wish be it on a lanyard, pinned to you, in your wallet, etc. as long as it is with you.
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Such independence that - gives me goose bumps. It's just like the wild frontier days. Probably Ontario will make a law soon to mandate exactly where we can put it. :D :D :D
 
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Renewed my fishing tag on Friday- jeez. Now I have to carry around this goofy yellow card too?
And when I asked the clerk "What was wrong with the sticker system?" all I got was "They decided to implement a new system."

I would've carried on the coversation, but I had a Chilean M98 in the trunk itching to be unpackaged.
 
"They decided to implement a new system."
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News reporting this week that our license issuers are in Tennesse now - for ONTARIO fish and game licenses. Really bugs me that the system may now have sent all my info including driver's license info (see above) possibly to an out fit in Tennesee. If you have questions or problems you have to phone Tennesee. I'm appalled!!!!
 
Finally got in yesterday to renew my hunting license and yes they have changed things, Now aswell as my outdoors card I have a cheesy yellow tag I have to carry, Now when I get my deer and moose tags I will have more yellow cards to carry... lame..
 
dre611 said:
I renewed mine online jan 3, printed off a temp one on my printer, just got my new card today with small game and fish on the back as usual.
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Bloody hell. I got my renewed H1 Outdoors card today and it only has the fishing lic on it. I bought a small game lic at the same time but it's not shown on the card. Am I looking in the wrong area? I assume it would be in the back of the card just like the fishing one. I haven't bought a hunting lic in decades. Never got around to hunting after I took the course. My friend has a fair chunk of land and recently found out she's quite the outdoors gal and likes hunting/guns and has been asking me to go with her. lol

Good to see that they've grandfathered me in considering I had taken the hunting course way back in the early 1990's when it was more or less today's firearms course.
 
JeffJames said:
Finally got in yesterday to renew my hunting license and yes they have changed things, Now aswell as my outdoors card I have a cheesy yellow tag I have to carry, Now when I get my deer and moose tags I will have more yellow cards to carry... lame..
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I got my hunting licence in the mail a couple of weeks ago all I got was the regular card with a three year hunting and fishing renewal. What is the yellow tag for and can you post instructions to the link on how to use the tag?
 
I'm curious, why does nearly every single poster from Ontario assume that we know that they are from Ontario and that we should give a #2*&! about their provincial regulations - without bothering to say where they are from or why it matters? It is very tiresome that the "Centre of the Universe" assumes that we all have the same issues, or care. If posted as an "Ontario issue", the rest of Canada could simply tune out. It's far past the time that Ontario hunters should realize that the rest of Canada, or at least the portion West of them, do not have the heavy load of government that they have to deal with. This forum is Canadian Gun Nutz, not Ontario Gun nuts, last I checked!
 
Longwalker said:
I'm curious, why does nearly every single poster from Ontario assume that we know that they are from Ontario and that we should give a #2*&! about their provincial regulations - without bothering to say where they are from or why it matters? It is very tiresome that the "Centre of the Universe" assumes that we all have the same issues, or care. If posted as an "Ontario issue", the rest of Canada could simply tune out. It's far past the time that Ontario hunters should realize that the rest of Canada, or at least the portion West of them, do not have the heavy load of government that they have to deal with. This forum is Canadian Gun Nutz, not Ontario Gun nuts, last I checked!
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It's just the way some people are I guess.

Ontario "breeds" alot of new hunters and firearms users annually who in turn show up here and ask questions.Like it or not alot that goes on in the firearms and hunting industry is pushed by Ontario and Quebec.

Alot of folks from out west show up and ask questions without stating where they are from. ".223 for deer threads" seem to turn up a few westerners who are not identified as westerners.

People who constantly differentiate between easterners and westerners do Hunting and shooting in general no favours.

Food for thought.
 
You're right of course, Turkeyslayer. I could learn some manners too. I just wish that people in general realized that hunting regulations are provincial, not national, and that broad questions are not for all. Oh well, time to chill out.
 
Longwalker said:
You're right of course, Turkeyslayer. I could learn some manners too. I just wish that people in general realized that hunting regulations are provincial, not national, and that broad questions are not for all. Oh well, time to chill out.
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I agree with you, I like the threads asking about some minute little detail in some obscure hunting regulation with no mention of province.

I often wonder how serious people are about hunting if the don't have the time to check the regs for themselves.

You have to wonder sometimes.
 
Longwalker said:
I'm curious, why does nearly every single poster from Ontario assume that we know that they are from Ontario and that we should give a #2*&! about their provincial regulations - without bothering to say where they are from or why it matters? It is very tiresome that the "Centre of the Universe" assumes that we all have the same issues, or care. If posted as an "Ontario issue", the rest of Canada could simply tune out. It's far past the time that Ontario hunters should realize that the rest of Canada, or at least the portion West of them, do not have the heavy load of government that they have to deal with. This forum is Canadian Gun Nutz, not Ontario Gun nuts, last I checked!
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WTF is your issue? Maybe if you look at OP you would see "Hamilton ON" under my name Not that location has anything to do with my post.

You seem to be a sad hate filled little man. If you dont like the topic there is no need to read past the OP... Troll on my friend, Troll on.
 
So a follow up to my first post, here in ONTARIO they seem to have changed the sticker system for outdoors cards. They no long put the sticker on the back for small games, fishing, Moose ect ect.

Instead you get a card for each license you buy, like this

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So buy the time you buy all the game seals and fishing license your wallet will be cluttered.
 
JeffJames said:
WTF is your issue? Maybe if you look at OP you would see "Hamilton ON" under my name Not that location has anything to do with my post.

You seem to be a sad hate filled little man. If you dont like the topic there is no need to read past the OP... Troll on my friend, Troll on.
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If you read the posts after you would see he apologized....
 
So, now that the OP and I both have had our little rant, a comparison between Sask and ON, if anyone is still interested.
In Saskatchewan, a resident hunter is only required to show a health services card to prove "resident status " - if the subject ever comes up when buying a licence from a local vendor. I do not recall ever being asked for proof.
The normal procedure here is
- no "outdoor card" requirement
- shoot varmints all year with no licence and no regulations other than the basic safety requirement to ask permission if within 500 meters of occupied buildings or barns.
- one "habitat" certificate to which all licenses are attached ( a sticker).
- separate hide and meat seals are issued for all big game. Also head seals for deer. No seals for fur bearers or birds.
- the usual federal migratory stamp is required in addition to a provincial bird licence if you want to hunt waterfowl.
- if successful with an application for limited entry hunts, the same sticker / tag system applies.
that's it. Simple and effective.
 
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