Well, from what I can gather from the above posts, I did not really have to get a new lifetime license, even though it said that I did in the Alabama Hunting and Fishing Digest. Guess I wasted a couple of hours of my life at the license office. Now it appears that I also have to get some kind of number in order for my grandkids to hunt legally.
I agree with Crenshawco: Who needs an instruction manual to shoot a pine goat?