Beginning August 12th all new hunting license buyers will be asked to provide a middle initial before they may purchase a license. For hunter education instructors, this means a polite reminder for all students (and parents filling out bubble forms for students) to include the middle initial on our registration form.
How big a deal is this? Well, a quick review of 149,689 hunter education records earlier today revealed that a staggering 25,192 individuals did not provide us with a middle initial. (NOTE: The middle initial is very helpful in distinguishing individuals with similar first/last names.)
The obvious question from instructors is, "What about students who do not legally have a middle name/initial?" Rather than leave a blank field (and leave Olympia staff wondering whether or not the field was simply bypassed), please direct students without middle initials to use an asterisk (*). Currently the scanner cannot read an asterisk character, but at least we will know that the student does not have the required field. (NOTE: The license document will contain an asterisk (*) field for students without legal middle names.
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