With the new iSportsman web-based mobile device service, hunting zones have been eliminated. The iSportsman service will list current hunting districts available to hunt in. Hunting registration and fee payment will no longer be accepted at the LE Conservation Office.

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Conservation Law Enforcement will be holding a Hunter Town Hall Meeting on dates and times listed below at the Conservation Office located at building 13848.
27 Aug 2017 @ 1900 hrs.

Please E-mail your questions to Officer Wayne V. Moses at wayne.moses.1@us.af.mil

Notes from meeting on 1 July, 2017

iSportsman Service

Officer Moses briefed last year the base was going to a web-based hunting check-in/check-out system.

• Hunting fee increased to $75.00 to pay the annual maintenance fee for the service. This fee may change in the future after evaluation of real costs.
• Pay using credit/debit card
• Print permit from home
• Check-in/check-out of hunting areas using any computer or mobile device with Internet and web browser. Phone dial-in touch tone service coming soon.

Hunting Procedures

• Must register with Vandenberg iSportsman Service, https://vandenberg.isportsman.net
• Print a copy of your permit and have it on your person while hunting
• Check-in and check-out of the hunting areas using the Vandenberg iSportsman Service
• Due to phone and Internet service dead zones on some areas of the base, be sure to check-in before entering the dead zone.
• Display a completed Outdoor Locator Card on your dashboard so it may be easily seen through the windshield.

Deer Harvest Reporting and Tag Countersigning

• Bring head with tag attached to the Conservation Law Enforcement Office during regular business hours, 0900-1000 or 1500-1600 to have your tags countersigned. NOTE: if you are leaving town that day contact BDOC at 805-606-3911 tell them you are a hunter and that you need a Conservation Officer to return to the office to sign your deer tag. If it's after 2300 hours, you must bring it in the next business day.
• Be sure to record your harvest in the Vandenberg iSportsman Service.
• Note: You still must report your harvest with California Fish & Wildlife

Hunting Area Closures

• C-1 partial road closure, see map
• B-1 partial area closure, see map
• Sudden Ranch closed until the base gets zero unauthorized use down there for a few weeks. This is a limited access area for hunting and fishing only. You must have a key signed out from the Conservation Law Enforcement Office to access the area. The only authorized access point is from the bottom road/Coast Rd. entering from the Chumash Gate. It is prohibited to access Sudden Ranch through any other gate.

All Use fees paid on the old system expired on 30 June 2017. To hunt VAFB, you must register via iSportsman and pay the $75.

Configure/transport your firearms accordingly.

30SW131-218 12 MARCH 2015 49 Chapter 7

TRANSPORTATION OF PRIVATELY OWNED FIREARMS

7.1. General Considerations.

7.1.1. Transporting of all firearms on the installation is prohibited except to and from authorized storage or shooting areas to include hunting areas. Firearms must be cleared, safe and placed in a locked container. The term "locked container" means a secure container which is fully enclosed and locked by a padlock, key lock, combination lock, or similar locking device. This includes the trunk of a motor vehicle, but does not include the utility or glove compartment or center console.

7.1.2. Transporting firearms on bicycles, motorcycles, or any two or three-wheeled vehicle is prohibited. Firearms will not be stowed in such a manner as to appear to be a concealed weapon. Examples of concealment: hiding a firearm or dangerous weapon on one's person; transporting a firearm or dangerous weapon in a privately owned vehicle hidden from view, unless secured in a locked, enclosed container to include the trunk, not the center console or utility or glove compartment.

7.1.3. Ammunition may be transported in the same area as the firearm but no ammunition may be inside any part of the firearm (ex: inserted magazine, round not chambered); transporting a loaded, secured firearm is prohibited.

KEITH W. BALTS, Colonel, USAF Commander

Vandenberg AFB Exchange

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Active duty/reserve/retired military members and authorized VAFB DoD employee may escort one (1) guest in the field at any given time. The guest must have all required state hunting license and shall register as a guest and pay the annual VAFB fee with the iSportsman web-based app.

Big Game Hunters must wear blaze orange cap/hat and vest or outer garment in all hunting areas with the exception of Archery areas. This rule is year around. Blaze orange broken up with camouflage is acceptable.

It is recommended for the rest of the hunters to wear orange, but not mandatory.

Vandenberg AFB WILL ALLOW lead ammunition to take dove, quail, and snipe this season.

Phase 2 Now – Effective July 1, 2016, nonlead shot will be required when taking upland game birds with a shotgun, except for dove, quail, snipe, and any game birds taken on licensed game bird clubs. In addition, nonlead shot will be required when using a shotgun to take resident small game mammals, furbearing mammals, nongame mammals, nongame birds, and any wildlife for depredation purposes.

Phase 3 – Effective July 1, 2019, nonlead ammunition will be required when taking any wildlife with a firearm anywhere in California.

Additional info here.