 Hunting season is just around the corner, and if you're a deer hunter, you're probably already checking your gear. Bowls, arrows, and equipment to keep you safe should be on everyone's checklist. But in Kentucky, if you were born after January 1st, 1975, there is one safety feature that you're required by law to have. If you're born on and after January 1st, 1975, you are required to have a hunter-ed card in order to hunt in Kentucky. This card is also good in any other state that you go to. We teach you everything from hunter safety to first stage to survival out in the woods. And the clerk at the store where you buy your hunting license isn't going to ask you if you have your hunter safety card. That responsibility is yours. The officer's in the field. If you're under that age and they check your license, they say you're born on and after January 1st, 1975, they will ask you to see your hunter-ed card. And it's important that you also carry that with you. And with the way our computer system is set up today, if you've taken that course and you've lost your card, you can go on my profile on the department's website. It'll ask you for your last name, last four of your social and your date of birth. And it'll print you your license off. It'll print your hunter-ed card off. There's no reason not to have a copy in your truck, to have a copy on your four-wheeler, to have a copy in your pack in the back. Archery season for deer opens September 7th. And if you haven't taken your hunter safety course, there may still be a way for you to hunt legally this season. If you do not have this course and you decide the open-dead season and you want to get out and hunt, you can actually do the $5 exemption. It's a one-time thing where you can actually go online and answer a couple questions. It gives you that opportunity to participate and, like I said, to hunt the first year and to see if it's something that you like. And of course, the following year, you'll need to follow up with a hunter-ed course. For more information about hunting regulations in Kentucky, visit the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife's website.