It is almost to that point with many people and that permit too. WCOs no longer investigate that permit either do to the changes in the Legislative statute. We do find our selves arresting more people that abuse what the law allows with that permit though in recent years.

The difference with that permit is that it really isn’t an advantage for those that don’t qualify provided they actually understand the limits of what their permit allows. In many cases a person with the permit is actually more restricted then a person without the permit when it comes to being permit to harvest wildlife they have seen while in a moving vehicle and traveling from home to hunt or back.

Most hunters, if they are able to stand up and still support a firearm don’t gain anything with a permit to use a motor vehicle as their seat. All that permit entitles a hunter to do is park their vehicle, shut the engine off and then load their gun and sit in the vehicle while they wait for game to arrive. Any able bodied hunter can do about the same thing by taking a chair and setting it up right beside their parked vehicle. The only thing they can’t do that the permit holder can is sit inside their vehicle with their gun loaded.

It is not a permit to road hunt like some people think it is. It is a very needed permit for those that can’t stand anymore though otherwise they couldn’t continue to be a hunter.

R.S. Bodenhorn