{"id":31055,"date":"2020-08-03T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=31055"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:03:15","slug":"qualification-shoots-scheduled-for-managed-deer-hunts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/08\/03\/qualification-shoots-scheduled-for-managed-deer-hunts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualification Shoots Scheduled for Managed Deer Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proficiency Tests Necessary to Participate<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4641\/24493276787_d312662a5e.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of hunter on a practice shooting range\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/>The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has released the 2020-2021 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Documents\/shoot_qual_cal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shooter Qualification Schedule<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which includes 20 qualification sessions at 15 locations across the state. Additional events are available upon reservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunters should note that several shooter qualification sessions are conducted by appointment only and that many charge a minimal fee to cover expenses. Additionally, hunters must adhere to all COVID-19 precautions that individual locations have in place.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These events allow hunters to take the necessary proficiency test required to obtain a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Pages\/shootqual.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shooter Qualification Card <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in order to participate in many of the managed deer hunts scheduled in the fall and winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a reminder, the department uses a lottery system to select participants for many of the managed deer hunts. There are various deadlines for the lotteries, which can be found <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on the department\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The department will continually update the online shooter qualification calendar as additional events become available.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proficiency Tests Necessary to Participate The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has released the 2020-2021 Shooter Qualification Schedule which includes 20 qualification sessions at 15 locations across the state. Additional events are available upon reservation. Hunters should note that several shooter qualification sessions are conducted by appointment only and that many charge a minimal fee<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/08\/03\/qualification-shoots-scheduled-for-managed-deer-hunts-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3172],"tags":[4960,3512,3513,3511],"class_list":["post-31055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-hunting","tag-managed-deer-hunt","tag-shooter-qualification-card","tag-shooter-qualification-schedule"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31057,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions\/31057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}