Bow hunting Anterless Tag

[Slugger09]

I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but I received my life time license in the mail last week and I was missing the bow hunting antlerless deer tag. I e-mailed the DEC and they answered back with, there was an issue in the fulfillment house and they will be sending one out soon. Just a heads up to check your tags and make sure nothing is missing.

[fasteddie]

When I bought my Lifetime License , all that I could get was the Sportsman's Lifetime which does NOT consist of the Archery / ML deer tag . That is extra .

[Slugger09]

I also have the lifetime bow license, which i received but the anterless tag was missing, just to clarify.

[Marfhunts]

Yea i also bought the lifetime bow, how many tags are we supposed to get with that?

[Doc]

OK ..... Lifetime Sportsman license ..... (actually they call it a "Lifetime Sportsman + fish)

Here's what it all consists of:

1 - back tag

1 - bear carcass tag

1 - turkey carcass tag (Spring)

1 - turkey carcass tag (Spring)

1 - deer carcass tag

1 - Fall turkey carcass tag

1 - Fall turkey carcass tag

1 - general license

1 - reporting panel

1 - reporting panel overflow

The last tag is sort of a bill-of-lading that lists what all is attached.

Don't ask me what those last two "reporting panels" are used for. So far I haven't read any further to figure it out.

Any antlerless permits or archery licenses or muzzle loader licenses are NOTpart of the lifetime sportsman license and have to be obtained and paid for separately. The fee for $10 permit application fee is waived for a Lifetime Sportsman License purchased prior to October 1, 2009. The archery or muzzleloader license is a completely separate issue and requires separate licenses and payment.

For those that are dealing with the contents of a Lifetime Bow License, I can't help you out with that. I don't have one.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Wouldnt you have to have bow and ML lifetime add ons to get both the either sex and doe tag for bow/ML?

[growalot]

That's what I thought...I have lifetime sportsman and the lifetime bow and all I get is just the one either or...not another doe tag for my life time bow

[Slugger09]

The lifetime bow should include an either sex tag and an antlerless tag. A friend of mine purchased a super sportsman license which included the antlerless bow tag. That's how I realized the tag was missing from mine.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Doesn't work that way. If you bought a lifetime bow and lifetime ML you would get two tags. If you just picked one...the tage is either sex....the next purchase gives the antlerless only. just like buying the yearly licenses.

[WNYBuckHunter]

The lifetime bow should include an either sex tag and an antlerless tag. A friend of mine purchased a super sportsman license which included the antlerless bow tag. That's how I realized the tag was missing from mine.

The reason you get the either sex and doe tags with a super sportsman is because you are buying a bow license and a muzzleloader license. Sportsman does not give you either and a bow license only gives you 1 additional tag, which is the either sex.

[Slugger09]

Ok my mistake, DEC had mE thinking I was right. Shows they dont know everything