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Old 04-02-2007 | 07:04 PM
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R.S.B.
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Default RE: pgc deer report is in

ORIGINAL: Windwalker7

Isn't there a $5 fine for not turning in a report card?

Sounds like the PGC would have made a good size chunk of cash if they find all those deer that were previously checked by personnel and yet those hunters never turned in a report card. All those hunters should have got fines.

Now if this is the way that things have been done for years, you'd think that eventually the percentage of guys turning in report cards would increase because of everyone talking of how they had to pay a fine.


Then again, maybe not.


I think the fine for not reporting should go up. Way up. $100 sounds like a good start.

Imagine the funds that could be generated. When you consider that only 37% get turned in.

Raise the fine and have the PGC do a real crack down on guys that don't turn them in. A little extra effort by doing extra checking of butchers, taxidermists and rosters could give the PGC some desperately needed money.

$100 a pop would add up fast.
We do fine some people that we can prove killed a deer and that we can then prove didn’t submit a report card. The fine is $25 not $5.00.

The problem is in the fact that many of them take a hearing and go in and testify that they sent the report and the Postal Service must have lost it. We usually can’t prove they didn’t send it so the Judge finds them not guilty.

There might be some improved reporting options on the horizon that might improve the reporting rate. But, the biggest thing is just getting successful hunters to take a few minutes to do the darn report. Everyone wants to have better management but then they refuse to do their part in this one simple little thing that could help with having better management.

R.S. Bodenhorn

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