Felix40
WKR
This probably isn’t important to too many people here but I’m mad so I can’t help but post it up.
Sometime in the last few months the NMDGF Commission decided they wanted to change the minimum age to buy a hunting license. Before this year there was no minimum. They just required that youth 10 and under take an in person hunter ed course. Without any public comment or even informing their staff, they changed the minimum age to 9.
My son shot his first elk in December. He was excited about applying for deer. He turns 9, 4 days after the application deadline. So without public comment or any kind of announcement, NMDGF locked all accounts of anyone under 9. Now I’m going to have to tell him that we can’t do any of the stuff we usually do. He can’t even buy a license to squirrel hunt. I talked to several game wardens and none of them can cite the new reg. They all have been told different things about what the new rule is too.
The age minimum is less of an issue to me than the back door stuff where there’s no public comment and now my son’s opportunities have been taken away.
I’m sure very few people here will care as much as I do but here’s the email addresses for the Commissioners and Director.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Michael.sloane@dgf.nm.gov
Sometime in the last few months the NMDGF Commission decided they wanted to change the minimum age to buy a hunting license. Before this year there was no minimum. They just required that youth 10 and under take an in person hunter ed course. Without any public comment or even informing their staff, they changed the minimum age to 9.
My son shot his first elk in December. He was excited about applying for deer. He turns 9, 4 days after the application deadline. So without public comment or any kind of announcement, NMDGF locked all accounts of anyone under 9. Now I’m going to have to tell him that we can’t do any of the stuff we usually do. He can’t even buy a license to squirrel hunt. I talked to several game wardens and none of them can cite the new reg. They all have been told different things about what the new rule is too.
The age minimum is less of an issue to me than the back door stuff where there’s no public comment and now my son’s opportunities have been taken away.
I’m sure very few people here will care as much as I do but here’s the email addresses for the Commissioners and Director.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Michael.sloane@dgf.nm.gov