Your provinces HL and tag system

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In BC you take your Hunter number card (that is issued to you after you pass a Hunter Ed course) to your local store or gov't agent and get a booklet (your HL) and you get big game tag stickers to put in the booklet.

When you kill a big game animal, you cut out little notches that indicate the date, region and if the animal is antlered or not.

We don't have any tag thing you physicially attach to the animal.

We cannot purchase online.

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Here in NL we have to do the Hunters Capability Course.
There is 9 pools, pool 1 being the highest.
For instance, last season I was in Pool 8. Entered the draw and did not get a license so I move to Pool 7.
Enter the draw in the spring, so this fall I got a moose license. We can apply online, and if successful, can pay for your license fees online; for a resident it is $50. Every hunter who applies has their own username and password. For bear there is no Pool system, just state which area you wish to hunt on your application ( I usually pick the same area that I applied for in the moose draw).and pay you fee online, around $40. You can kill two bears on a license.
In August get your license and tags my mail. There are 4 metal locking tags, that must be affixed to each quarter, and a jawbone tag.
If successful in getting a moose, you have 7 days to fill out the license return, you can do this online, or you can fill it out on you license and send it back by mail.
For small game, several Stores in your town can be vendors. Go to the store with your drivers license, and your outdoor ID card, and get a small game license. This year ptarmigan, grouse, rabbit, and coyote are combined at a cost of $13.
Also, for moose you can choose either ###, female only, or male only or calf.
I just choose either ###, had a male only license one year and saw 16 cows before seeing a bull.
For bear, when you get a license you can kill two bears in the spring, or one bear in the spring and fall, or two bears in the fall.
only bummer is that you must be 16 to shoot small game, and 18 to apply for big game.
When I got my Outdoor Card, you had to go to the range with the Conservation Officer and shoot at a target to confirm you can actually hit something. They have stopped doing this for a number of years.
 
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well we can do everything on line now, or if your not on line literate you can still go in to a licencing agent and have them do it all for you.

Once you have your course you apply for a WIN card with that you can purchace your general tags and apply for limited entry draws.

tags are like ski lift tags you can request on line and receive the blank tags in the mail, you fill them out when you buy your licences.

the acutal licence comes as a pdf file that you print out.

took a little getting used to the new system, but I like it.


many years ago we got books and stickers, and metal locking tags like the ones you find on seacontiners. quaint that BC still uses books and stickers.
 
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In NS, take your Wildlife Resource Card to a vendor or DNR office, buy a 4 dollar (apprx) Habitat Stamp which acts as your base license, then add whitetail or bear, archery or rifle, trapping, small game (grouse, pheasant) and bear snaring.

Separate qualifications for archery and rifle (different courses) and fur harvesting (trapping/bear snaring)

Most areas are buck only, enter a draw for does based on zones. Black bear are one by hunting in the fall, two by snaring also in the fall.
Moose are by draw, no pool, just hope. Something like 10 k applicants and 400 tags IIRC
 
Ontario has a plastic Hunting and Outdoors card, and then seals you buy for individual species of big game, or a small game one can be added to your Hunting and outdoors card. They recently contracted out the licensing, and it got a lot more complicated, however, we can buy the card, and or tags from government issuers, by phone, or online, entering big game draws the same way. We can also buy tags at local retailers.

For turkey, you have to take a course, and have a T printed on your card to buy a turkey license.

Our Moose licensing system is about the biggest kettle of crap going. When you buy your moose license, it's a calf tag, then you enter the draw for either a cow, or bull. (unless you are in an area where there is a calf draw as well. In that case you could be SOL) You can enter as a group, and in some areas, there is a guaranteed group size where you will automatically get a tag. If you need to transfer a tag, the government picks who in your group gets it. It goes on and on and on....
 
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Ontario has a plastic Hunting and Outdoors card, and then seals you buy for individual species of big game, or a small game one can be added to your Hunting and outdoors card. They recently contracted out the licensing, and it got a lot more complicated, however, we can buy the card, and or tags from government issuers, by phone, or online, entering big game draws the same way. We can also buy tags at local retailers.

For turkey, you have to take a course, and have a T printed on your card to buy a turkey license.

Our Moose licensing system is about the biggest kettle of crap going. When you buy your moose license, it's a calf tag, then you enter the draw for either a cow, or bull. (unless you are in an area where there is a calf draw as well. In that case you could be SOL) You can enter as a group, and in some areas, there is a guaranteed group size where you will automatically get a tag. If you need to transfer a tag, the government picks who in your group gets it. It goes on and on and on....
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The moose lottery is a gong show.
 
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