This is my understanding as well, that you have to physically drop off some kind of paper check in-out form when arriving and leaving a WMA.

Like Jake's friends, I'm not driving out of the way to let someone know I'm leaving after hunting tree rats on public land. I don't care what it's for, what other states do or how it's going to affect whatever. I've had to do it in other states and it's a f'king pain in the ass.

So I'm done hunting WMAs because of this.


Some of y'all like to go off on those of us who continue to say that more regulations will affect people. Some of y'all like to say that "it's just $15 for a corn license privilege" or "It's just a permit" or "It's just a closure for special hunts." and if you don't participate you're only a me-first fake hunter/conservationist teat-sucking leech.

Yet before long we have a long list of requirements and mandates and fees that continue to grow. It's like the anti-gunners and anti-hunters chipping away a little at a time, adding just one thing here and there to achieve the goals. Before long they have 10 or 15 things, or a hunting ban, or a gun restriction, or more stuff added to the hunter and angler who just wants to go enjoy a few hours.