CombatAK
Hooligan #12
I got one too!!!!
First year in the lottery and didn’t get picked. That’s one preference point in the bank!!
First year in the lottery and didn’t get picked. That’s one preference point in the bank!!
Since we have two tags i should be able to get you in as a sub permittee for at least a few day
Congratulations! You have been selected as one of the 800 applicants who will be eligible to obtain a 2018 Maryland Black Bear Hunting Permit. Once obtained, you will be eligible to hunt black bears on public land and private land within the hunt zone
Your Black Bear Hunting Permit will be valid for up to 3 hunters – a permittee and up to two subpermittees. You will be the permittee, and as such are responsible as the lead hunter on the permit. You may assign anyone eligible to hunt in Maryland as your subpermittee(s). Your subpermittee(s) may participate in every aspect of your hunt. It is important to note, though, that your hunting team may harvest only 1 bear.
Big Savage Sportsman's Club
I got one too!!!!
Correct on all counts Outrider. One problem you may run into in the regs, unless they’ve changed it in the last few weeks, is if you get a bear during the day you only have until 8pm to call the check station & report you got one that day. This was a huge problem for me in 2015 when I had a big boar in my sights with 10 min of legal shoot time left, or about 6:50 pm. Unless I had shot that bear and started running immediately I had at least a 20-25 min sprint back down the mountain to the truck and a 25-30 min drive back up the mountain to cell service. There was no way I’d have made the call-in deadline. Good thing I passed, well that and it was pretty big and hunting by myself I’d have not been able to move that thing a foot.
I spoke in person a couple weeks ago to Harry Spiker himself, he told me that is an old reg still in there from the call-in quota on the earlier hunts. He told me not to sweat that and also they are generally still at the check stations until 9pm. Or, he said you can call the DNR # & report it, all instances only being required to check the bear in within 24 hrs.
Good luck to you.
Correct on all counts Outrider. One problem you may run into in the regs, unless they’ve changed it in the last few weeks, is if you get a bear during the day you only have until 8pm to call the check station & report you got one that day. This was a huge problem for me in 2015 when I had a big boar in my sights with 10 min of legal shoot time left, or about 6:50 pm. Unless I had shot that bear and started running immediately I had at least a 20-25 min sprint back down the mountain to the truck and a 25-30 min drive back up the mountain to cell service. There was no way I’d have made the call-in deadline. Good thing I passed, well that and it was pretty big and hunting by myself I’d have not been able to move that thing a foot.
I spoke in person a couple weeks ago to Harry Spiker himself, he told me that is an old reg still in there from the call-in quota on the earlier hunts. He told me not to sweat that and also they are generally still at the check stations until 9pm. Or, he said you can call the DNR # & report it, all instances only being required to check the bear in within 24 hrs.
Good luck to you.
Sweet. Nice bear, and tons of work it seemed. Well worth it I bet (got pics?). You’re right about the DNR’s helpfulness. I met Harry Spiker in person at a seminar at the MD Zoo a few weeks ago, and he told me that there was lots of flexibility in the reporting, and in the check-in process. I just wish I had known this then (all I had at the time was the specially printed bear hunt rule book). I’d have brought that big sucker out 10 lbs at a time if I knew I wouldn’t really be breaking any rules. That was night one, figured I’d see him again. I figured wrong.I shot mine (after 4 years of lottery attempts) in 2015. I called the closest check-in station in Oakland and told them there was no way I could field dress it get a 500# bear there by 8 and that I was worried about the meat spoiling and wanted to quarter it. I offered to bring the meat (in a cooler) and the cape but they told me just to bring in the cape w/ head and sex attached for the check in. Very nice folks. As it was I did not finish quartering until 3 AM.