What to do after turkey test?

[TurkeyRookie]

So if I have this straight, I don't need to carry a piece of paper around because they have it on record that I passed the test, correct? Do I still have to go to a SO with my yellow paper and let them know that I passed the test? Should I just wait until tags are available?

If I'm a CO and I stop you in the field, what do you have on your person to show me you are licensed to hunt Turkey?

If you do not possess an outdoors card with a T on it, how can you prove it?

That is why you have to carry the carbon copy along with your outdoors card, and a valid small games license.

[TurkeyRookie]

From the regs;

• Their Outdoors Card bearing a "T" insignia; OR

• Their valid hunting version Outdoors Card plus their Wild
Turkey Hunter Education certificate or their Record of Wild Turkey Hunter Examination form; OR

• Their valid hunting version Outdoors Card plus a previous
Ontario wild turkey licence bearing the hunter’s name and Outdoors Card number.

[YorkRegion]

thanks for the info guys wasnt sure exactly what i did after i passed the exam. cant wait till april it'll be first "big" hunt

[STUBBLE BUM]

From the regs;

• Their Outdoors Card bearing a "T" insignia; OR

• Their valid hunting version Outdoors Card plus their Wild
Turkey Hunter Education certificate or their Record of Wild Turkey Hunter Examination form; OR

• Their valid hunting version Outdoors Card plus a previous
Ontario wild turkey licence bearing the hunter’s name and Outdoors Card number.

Bureaucracy at it's finest - if you're stopped by a CO he runs your outdoors card. The ONLY LEGAL way you can get a turkey license and tag(s) is to be in the system as having passed the course/test. If you're stopped and have a valid outdoors card without the "T", a valid small game license and have a valid turkey license and tag(s) one can only assume you have them because you were verified at purchase..............right? Are they implying by this redundant reg that there are crooked issuers or that someone is so desperate to turkey hunt and NOT take the course that they've broken into an issuer's office and managed to override the system and issue themselves a tag? "A" for effort. The government truly thinks of everything.

I think I'm swinging to Topher's side - way too much paper to be slinging around. I feel for you man.............lol

This cash cow known as the turkey course should be incorprated into the hunters safety course from the get go.

[YorkRegion]

i agree 100% with stubble bum the turkey course should have been included in the hunter safety course. what do you really learn in the turkey that couldnt have been taught in the hunter safety course. why dont they make me take a deer course, moose, course. why is turkey so special?

[topher]

i agree 100% with stubble bum the turkey course should have been included in the hunter safety course. what do you really learn in the turkey that couldnt have been taught in the hunter safety course. why dont they make me take a deer course, moose, course. why is turkey so special?

Shhhh... Your giving them ideas.....

[YorkRegion]

lol really tho such a cash grab an for what. does anyone have their license for turkey. what will i learn from the video that i dont already know from hunters safety

[RackHunter]

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I'm now 17 and took it couple years ago, and our instructor gave us all the answers for the test...pretty much a money racket

[skeeter1]

From the regs;

• Their Outdoors Card bearing a "T" insignia; OR

• Their valid hunting version Outdoors Card plus their Wild
Turkey Hunter Education certificate or their Record of Wild Turkey Hunter Examination form; OR

• Their valid hunting version Outdoors Card plus a previous
Ontario wild turkey licence bearing the hunter’s name and Outdoors Card number.

Does the third point not address this? If I have my hunting outdoors card (says nothing about a "T", coupled with a turkey license with my name on it from the MNR who has the results of my turkey cousre in the system), I am good to go? No need to carry my paper results other than to the MNR to get the license "just in case" the results are not updates yet. Clear as mud eh?

[mox72]

I remember having to carry the stupid piece of paper until I got my 'T' card.....including finding out at the store after a 40 minute drive that I couldnt buy my tag without it.