Check your New 2025 Hunting License for HIP Certification

[friscopaint]

I bet GW love these clerks selling license's.

[doghouse]

The only thing I have seen with digital license is when you report the kill and where, they can tell you to go get it tested at a test facility, even though your county is not in the testing area. No big deal, just passing info.

[TacticalCowboy]

So what do you do if you don't plan to hunt any migratory birds and answer no. Then later in the season get an invite from a friend to go hunt geese?

How does that change the previous year’s number of birds you killed?

[Artos]

I don’t get asked any questions and get hip certified where I buy my license. And I’m sure that people who are asked don’t always give accurate answers. So what’s the point other than to write tickets for some bs rule.

I always got asked when buying otc...been getting it online for the past few years the site knows what I want to get / history & asks.

I'm surprised they lump the doves & WW into the same pile on count, but they do it w/ waterfowl too...the whole migratory deal adds an element that makes no sense.

[bigdaddy590]

It shouldn’t even be something on the license. I don’t believe they use the data for anything useful in the first place and if they do it’s clearly worthless data with no accuracy. They could easily just ask the info and collect data without possibly causing an offense if some salesperson forgets or doesn’t check the box. I think it’s like most things in government. It was started and no one has thought to end it so it’s a box to check for eternity.

False. HIP is required by the USFWS and is used to select people for the parts collection survey which is integral to migratory bird management.

[Cox1]

False. HIP is required by the USFWS and is used to select people for the parts collection survey which is integral to migratory bird management.

so why does it need to be a on the license. If that’s the case it should just be a yes or no entered at time of license purchase.

[sqiggy]

So what do you do if you don't plan to hunt any migratory birds and answer no. Then later in the season get an invite from a friend to go hunt geese?

You can always go back where they sell hunting licenses and get it printed out. Just put it with your license in case you get checked. Doesn’t cost anything. I get it every year regardless if I hunt migratory birds or not.

[BRUTE 23]

I buy ours online and they mail them. It's super easy and it saves all the info. It also links with other states for licenses. I don't trust the people in the stores any more, especially Academy.

[bigdaddy590]

so why does it need to be a on the license. If that’s the case it should just be a yes or no entered at time of license purchase.

Because it’s a requirement to have it. No different than having a migratory stamp, or upland stamp, or archery stamp.

and it’s not just a yes or no. It it also how many you shot.

Incase anyone cares to read, here is how HIP data is used.

https://www.fws.gov/harvestsurvey/harvestRegistration

[txtimetravler]

So how many of you are truthful when asked how many doves or ducks you killed last season?

[SaintBlaise]

Warden's way to catch someone, dont forget: (archery stamp, duck stamp, hunters cert, HIP, must sign the back of a lic, fill a log, etc). I follow the rules, but man I feel the warden is out to get me.

Dang BBQ, I never heard of an archery stamp. Just bought it, wish I could have known a week ago when I ordered the hunting license. Sure glad you mentioned that endorsement.

[MtnMike]

Get mine online, the paper version. Easy peasy !

I bought my Wife's Super Combo online to make sure it was correct. Should get it in the mail next week. I bought a Federal Duck Stamp when I purchased my License this year. Will I get the Duck Stamp in the mail or the fact that the License says I bought the stamp is that good enough?

[rladner]

How does that change the previous year’s number of birds you killed?

It doesn't, but if you say no, there is no reporting. I'm not sure I understand your comment. When buying a license they ask you if you plan to hunt migratory birds this year. yes or no. If you say no, there is no reporting. My question was, "what if I said no, I have no plans to hunt birds, but then later decide I do, how do I handle that?"

[bigdaddy590]

So how many of you are truthful when asked how many doves or ducks you killed last season?

I am. Why would you lie about it?

[bbqfan5909]

Dang BBQ, I never heard of an archery stamp. Just bought it, wish I could have known a week ago when I ordered the hunting license. Sure glad you mentioned that endorsement.

Any way to help, honest mistakes should not warrant tickets.