The season opens this Saturday and I'm going this year for the first time.  Is a plug required in the shotgun to limit to 3 rounds?  The hunting manual never mentions a limiter except for ducks that I can see.  I don't want to get gigged on a technical violation, but I don't want to add a plug if I don't have to.

I went to get my license last night and Gander Mountain said I needed to call the DNR to get my driver's license registered with them.  WTF?  They didn't really know too much about it, other than it was because I haven't had any type of hunting license recently and my DL was the new style.  I'll be calling the DNR shortly but I was curious if anyone else had heard of such a thing.  I thought it was pretty odd.

No plug is needed for phesant hunting.

Dont know about the D.L. issue.
Good hunting!

No plug is needed for pheasant hunting.  They aren't migratory.

I always leave the plug in my shotgun, though, whenever the duck/goose season overlaps the pheasant season because they both inhabit the same territory, lowlands.  If you don't duck hunt, & can convince a warden that you aren't duck hunting, then you're home free without a plug.

Also, remember that you have to use steel shot on federal land.  It's the same thing with that.  I always use steel whenever the pheasant season & duck/goose season overlap regardless of where I'm hunting.

I've never heard of the license registration thing, but it doesn't make sense to me.  It would seem like the DNR & MNDOT would both have access to each others db.

Good luck tomorrow.

Thanks for the info, looks like I will be getting a plug and steel shot just to be safe.  Got the licensing straightened out with the DNR. I was still on file with them with my old DL number, I last had a license about 5 or 6 years ago.  Even when applying over the internet I had to call their customer service number and have them update their database before it would let me get a license.  Basically 'they' (I think it was an outsoruced vendor) have a crappy database.  Took about 10 minutes to clear up.