Changes to the Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP)
 For The First Time, DMAP Permits Will Be Available On Select State Game Lands
The 2023-24 Hunting seasons have brought many changes to our Deer Management Assistance Program [DMAP] permits. For the first time, DMAP permits will be available on some State Game Lands within the Northeast, Northcentral, and Northwest Regions.
The use of DMAP on these game lands will better allow the Game Commission to achieve its goal of creating healthy wildlife habitat and assist in areas where the agency’s Forestry division is seeing overbrowsing and damage to habitat for other wildlife, like the ruffed grouse and snowshoe hare.
Read more about the latest update on State Game Lands DMAP permits here.
For more information on where these permits can be found, click here.
DMAP permits will be available to hunters during the third round of antlerless license sales, Monday August 14.
 Attn: PA Deer Hunters. The third round of antlerless deer licenses, as well as Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) permits will be available for purchase Monday, Aug. 14, beginning at 8 a.m.
VIEW real-time Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) Antlerless License Quotas chart to see the current number of antlerless licenses available here.
Buy your license online at www.huntfish.pa.gov or in-store at a Licensing Issuing Agent.
Both residents AND nonresidents are now eligible to purchase UP TO their allotted three antlerless licenses, if available. If you purchased antlerless licenses during the first two rounds of sales, you will only be permitted to purchase one additional at this time.
Have questions? Contact the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Licensing Division by calling 1-833-PGC-HUNT or by emailing pgclicdiv@pa.gov.
The 2023-24 Hunting License year runs from July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024. Check out Pennsylvania’s 2023-24 seasons and bag limits online here.
Recreational Shooters and Hunters: August is National Shooting Sports Month!
 It’s time to celebrate YOUR role in wildlife conservation!
Every shot benefits wildlife management. How? When wildlife was dwindling in the early 1900s, the firearms and ammunition industry stepped up and requested a federal tax be placed on the sale of these items to help fund wildlife conservation.
This tax is a federal excise tax of the wholesale price of arms and ammunition (a cost built into the price of these items and not an additional cost to the consumer).
The revenue generated from the excise tax is apportioned to state wildlife agencies for conservation efforts, hunter education, and shooting programs.
For your shooting enjoyment, and to make you a better hunter, the Pennsylvania Game Commission maintains 36 public shooting ranges across the state, including archery ranges and shotgun patterning ranges.
BEFORE YOU GO, learn the rules and regulations. Watch this video to learn more about the public shooting ranges in PA and click here to look at a statewide range location map. ***You will need a public shooting range permit or a current Pennsylvania hunting and trapping license to use firearm ranges. Range permits now are valid 365 days from the date of purchase and do not follow a license year. Archery ranges do not require a range permit or valid hunting license.
*Thank you for being a Pennsylvania hunter, conservationist and voice for the future of hunting in PA.
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