If the cards ask for the same information now as today, it stands to reason they'd be fine.

Blue cards usually reside with the troop; Council never really sees them. Council gets an advancement report based on signed blue cards, so I'd say old blue cards are fine if they suit your troop's purposes. I believe use of blue cards may not even be required!

Yah, it's just paperwork, SMT224.

Don't let it get in da way of program. If the lads earned the badge, they earned the badge.

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SMT224, I was a scout in the 1980's. I am now an adult leader. I haven't noticed any changes in the blue cards that are used to day from the one's that I used almost 30 years ago. Hope that helps.

This thread reminded me of a funny "Blue Card Story". About 20 years ago in the pre-internet, pre-download age one of our troop dads overheard me grumbling about the fact that council was charging .05 per blue card. (Yep, for an APPLICATION!) He asked me "Can I take one of those?" Turned out he worked for a local printing company and the next week brought back a stack of 500 of 'em, all ready to go!

Fast forward about 3 years: A staffer at camp loudly proclaims to us (and others) that our blue cards are COUNTERFEIT! It took 3 years for someone to notice (or even care) that there were no perforations! The staffer raised a stink about it; all over camp, to the CD and the DE. They just chuckled and dismissed it, as well they should have, but that staffer wound up on our permanent s**t list, which is a place ya just DON'T want to be!

That stack is long gone, but the old-timers still talk about that time! Fond memories.

Considering that more and more camps and activities are not using blue cards at all, I can't see how as it matters at all.