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Big Bird
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:08 pm Posts: 604 Location: Christiansburg, VA
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Checking a bird without a license ?
How does a landowner check in a bird w/o a license? I have not been able to find out if a tag needs to be created and attached or not. Doesn't look like it.
I am taking the landowner's son for youth day on their property. Just want to know what and how to do this in case things work out as we are hoping.
Here's whats on the VDGIF website:
Resident or non-resident landowners, their spouses, their children and grandchildren and the spouses of such children and grandchildren, or the landowner’s parents, resident or nonresident, do not need a license to hunt, trap or fish within the boundaries of their own lands and inland waters.
Thanks
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:56 am |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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When you call to check in the gobbler you are asked if you are exempt from a tag and then in one of the options you select landowner. They will still give you a confirmation number you have to write down.
(My experience with this is only regarding deer, but I'm assuming turkeys are about the same)
I'm not sure about a "temporary kill tag". I am assuming you don't need one.
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:10 pm |
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vabirdhunter
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:55 pm Posts: 966 Location: Chesapeake, Virginia
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Bird , I think you can call it in. I belive if the boy /girl is under 12 or maybe 16 they don't need a license. I might be wrong. I know when Zach , my son killed his deer this past season , we just took it to a checking station and the game department filled out the ticket and give it to us.
Tim
Good Luck to yall.
It's lQQking like rain here.
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:10 pm |
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Charliedog
2 Year Old
Joined: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:01 pm Posts: 96 Location: Crozet, VA
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How long has this been in effect? I've been buying out of state permits to hunt a couple of days on my Dad's property in Bath Co. I guess it could pay to read the fine print of the laws and not just the dates.
Freddy, How do you temporarily kill game??? Is there some new load being developed similar to catch and release fishing?
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:17 pm |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Charlie... the kill is not temporary... the tag is!!! haha!
The landowner law has been in effect for a long, long time...
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:20 pm |
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vagrousehunter
King of Spring
Joined: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:41 pm Posts: 813 Location: WV Eastern Panhandle
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Resident or non resident landowners , their spouses , their children and grandchildren and the spouses od such children and grandchildren , or the landowners parents , resident or non-resident , do not need a license to hunt trap or fish within the boundries of their own land . This is in the hunting handbook that you get when you buy your license .
My business is a licensed check station and when the bird is checked in there is a place on the check card for landowners . The same applies to call in checking .
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:31 pm |
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rel
Longbeard
Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:34 am Posts: 128 Location: Mount Carmel, TN
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That is right -- just tell them you are exempt. I hunt my own land in VA and they have always given me a copy of the check card at the check station. I've never tried to phone in a Spring Gobbler but I assume it would be the same process used for deer in the Fall where they give you a confirmation number.
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:57 pm |
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barry
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:44 pm Posts: 2720 Location: Bedford, VA
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checking a bird without a license
Landowners are exempt from tagging game they take on their own property, and it can be phoned in or taken to a check station.
If the young man does get a turkey, let him take it to a check station to check it in. I remember checking in my first tom and it was quite a feeling carrying that bird in among a bunch of adults. He too will remember that for a long time.
barry
_________________ "Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:11 pm |
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Big Bird
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:08 pm Posts: 604 Location: Christiansburg, VA
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Great info. Thanks fellas.
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Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:23 pm |
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