LITTLE ROCK — This weekend’s youth hunt will be a milestone in many young hunters’ lives as they harvest their first white-tailed deer in Arkansas. Reward their enthusiasm with a certificate they can display with pride.
Keith Stephens, chief of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Communications Division, said the certificates serve as one more way to say, “Welcome to the hunting community.”
“It’s not just for youths either,” Stephens said. “We’ve had many adults who have taken their first deer during one of the AGFC’s mentored hunts, as well as people who just want to remember their first deer after going through the process to get their licenses and hunter education and learning how to do it. The certificates are very popular.”
Just visit www.agfc.com/freepubs and download the certificate you want. There’s a version that allows you to place your own image in the layout to personalize the certificate, as well as a version with an image of a deer in the field, just in case you forgot to get a picture of your own in all the excitement of the first harvest.
Fill out the document online, print it and present it to the successful hunter.
“The certificates have been so popular that we added more fillable certificates to honor some of the other ‘firsts’ in the hunting and fishing world,” Stephens said. “We have versions for a person’s first bear, rabbit, squirrel, dove and fish, too.”
