Prequalification for Earn-a-Buck
Along with scouting it’s not too late to head out with a bow and prequalify for a buck sticker by shooting and registering an antlerless deer in anyone of the state’s 57 Earn-a-Buck (EAB) units. Thousands of hunters have taken advantage of this relatively new program that allows hunters hunting in EAB units to have a buck sticker in their pocket on opening day of the gun deer season. They earned the buck sticker by either shooting and registering an antlerless deer in 2006 in a hunting unit that is part of the EAB hunt in 2007 or by killing an antlerless deer during the early bow season or with a gun during the October gun hunts in any of this year’s Chronic Wasting Disease units.
Stickers earned in 2006 were mailed to hunters beginning in August. Hunters who think they should have received a sticker but haven’t, should immediately check for their name on the prequalification database by going to the DNR Web site or by stopping into a Service Center. Time is running short to mail stickers in time for the opener. Hunters who already have a sticker need to hang on to it: lost stickers are not replaceable.
