u/IllustriousHunt6003

Apologies if this isn’t the proper sub to post on. Essentially during my thanksgiving break I’ll be going deer hunting in VA with my cousin who is a resident. I’m trying to be proactive and get my licenses in order. I’ve seen conflicting information online and felt I’d get a clearer answer here. I’m an MD resident and have my MD Hunter Education which to my knowledge transfers to VA. What is the cheapest way to get a license in VA. I’ve seen different things especially with an apprentice license. I’m just trying to get licensed for as cheap as possible and any advice is appreciated thanks!

Hey everyone hope your summers going well. I found out today that I’m in Elkton, if anyone else is too please feel free to reach out.

I’m a big Maryland sports fan especially basketball and always looking to meet new people!

What’s the best way to go about getting my Red Card?

Background:
Basically I’m entering my freshman year of college this fall and through my Agriculture degree program I’m required to do an internship next summer. I’m looking to work out on a ranch next summer but I feel that having my Red Card would provide beneficial skills and knowledge plus generally good to have.

I’m located in the DMV area but and don’t mind traveling a bit. Any recommendations or advice is greatly appreciated.

Im a recent Eagle Scout and having done my BOR in October and aging out on the day of my BOR. Looking back I had an incredible troop and would recommend scouts to anyone but if there’s one thing I could’ve done differently it would’ve been to Journal.

To me scouts was about adventure and the shenanigans you do with either your crew or troop. Some of my best memories from scouts are honestly just in y things we did on trips. Like when I went to seabase in 2023 a 1/3 of us (my troop sent 3 crews that summer) snuck back to the dorms and stacked 5 mattresses on someone’s top bunk. Albeit there is a photo of it but you won’t always have a camera on you (my troop didn’t allow phones on trips). Or that same trip when it was 10:30pm in the dorms and the other troops adults (not affiliated with our troop so you can imagine how our adults felt having been uninformed by them) told us we were being too loud when an hour earlier their kids had put their mattresses on the floor and had been jumping from the top bunks doing WWE style wrestling!

At the end of the day there’s stuff I’ll always remember but wish I wrote down. So I encourage any SM, ASM or Crew adults to buy notebooks for their scouts before high adventures or after leadership roles as a gift (My troop has a tradition of giving the SPL a Leatherman after their term is up but this could easily be implemented similarly).

That’s my Tedtalk and my Two Cents!