{"id":33973,"date":"2021-07-29T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=33973"},"modified":"2021-07-29T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T12:16:14","slug":"qualification-shoots-scheduled-for-2021-22-managed-deer-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/07\/29\/qualification-shoots-scheduled-for-2021-22-managed-deer-hunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualification Shoots Scheduled for 2021-22 Managed Deer Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proficiency Tests Necessary to Participate in Lottery for Hunts<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4691\/25488417998_59727d082f.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of man target shooting\" width=\"367\" height=\"275\" \/>The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0has released the 2021-2022\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Documents\/shoot_qual_cal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shooter Qualification Schedule<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0which includes 20 qualification sessions at 10 locations across the state. Additional events are available upon reservation.<\/span><!--more--><\/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 any COVID-19 precautions that individual locations have in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These events allow hunters to take the necessary proficiency test required to obtain a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/huntersguide\/Pages\/shootqual.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shooter Qualification Card\u00a0<\/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\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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 in Lottery for Hunts The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0has released the 2021-2022\u00a0Shooter Qualification Schedule,\u00a0which includes 20 qualification sessions at 10 locations across the state. Additional events are available upon reservation.<\/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-33973","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\/33973","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=33973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33977,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33973\/revisions\/33977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}