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In Texas, we are required to carry a license which includes tags, a form of identification, driver license accepted or an Id issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Given the chance of an encounter with the game warden one must produce these items. I don't like packing my wallet out into the hunting venue for chance of it getting dipped in the mud, falling in the water or just plain losing it. I usually make a copy of my driver license which is of questionable legality. Depending on whether I am backpacking, light clothes hunting/fishing my documents may or may not be in my pockets. I find it a rather bothersome production.

I am curious what your requirements are? Do you have a good method of carrying your required documentation?

Whether it's a few hours chasing pheasants or a 12-day backpack hunt in AK I put the tag in my wallet and carry it. It's never been a problem or a production.

Usually in a jacket pocket. If they want my drivers license they can meet me back at the truck.

In my wallet in my back pocket. My hunting pants have a button down flap so I don't lose it. Fall in the creek? There's nothing in there that a little water will hurt.

In a plastic folder in my day pack.I never carry my wallet

In my wallet with my Driver license, CCW permit, money and credit/bank cards.

in my backpack regardless of where I am, other than at home. And honestly on our home place I rarely have it on me... its usually in the house in the billfold.

In AK I carry a couple of things and thats harvest tags, license, ID, metal bands and such and thats usually in a ziploc in the backpack.

What Coyote Hunter says. I would rather have all my important stuff on me rather someplace I'm not. Have yet to lose a license, or a wallet.

I keep my license/tags in a zip lock baggie in a small pocket of my hunting pack.

I go wayyyy out of my way to not loose my wallet and sure as hell don't carry my credit cards, drivers license, etc. with me while out hiking around. I keep them stashed and hidden in my vehicle. If they need to identify my body there are other, more reliable ways.

I hunt WY, MT, NV and ID yearly as well as other states some years and have never been told or read that I need to carry my drivers license or other state issued ID card....just my hunting license and tags/permits. Never hunted Texas though.

I carry mine in a little plastic folder designed for hunting licenses buried in a pocket of my daypack. I've never understood the requirements for other ID--to buy a license in Colorado one has to show other ID like a driver license, etc. Here in Colorado everybody receives a Customer Identification Number (CID). That number is on the license and all of our other info like adddress, SS, drivers license number, and hunter safety card number is on file with the CPW.

Casey

In my wallet, in a ziplock, in the zippered/flap back pocket of my hunting pants.

In a ziploc after make sure have signed what needs signed then goes in my belly pack that has my knife, permamarker, small tape measure, couple of bandaids, compass, snacks, rangefinder, a few rounds of ammo, etc. When hiking, the belly pack is rotate over my right hip.

I had a fellow come and hunt with me several years back from NV. He had everything in his wallet,including $400, in his back pocket. He lost it about 1/2 way into camp.I think it worked out because of the cantle pushing on it. We looked all the next day before season started, finally started to checking camps.Yep,some one had picked it up and was nice enough to fess up,including all the money.
What the heck does someone need all their credits cards etc. that they carry in their wallet 5-6 miles back in the wilderness or for that matter anywhere hunting.

Camo wallet?

Me, too. I never put my wallet down. I never put my keys down. I've never lost either one.

Need? If I don't ever take the stuff out of my wallet, I never have to remember to put it back. That's need enough for me.

Tom

In my wallet, which is always in my pocket.

This. I have never seen a warden out in the field and I have only seen one in camp. If they are in camp, they can wait until I unlock the car and show them my license.

^^^This^^^

In my wallet my coat pocket

Well, it's so a DWM who checks you in the field knows that the license is yours, since it has no photo or ht/wt etc. on it. If all you needed was the hunting license, I could use yours and no one who checked me would know the difference.