Allowed Methods
Pelts must be delivered to a conservation agent for registration or tagging by April 10. Find contact information for a conservation agent near you.
Hunting Methods
- Pistols, revolvers, and rifles propelling a single projectile at one discharge
- Guns powered by spring, air, or compressed gas
- Shotguns not larger than 10 gauge with magazine cut off or plugged to reduce the capacity to no more than three shells.
- Bows, including longbows, compound bows, and recurve bows.
- Crossbows
- Atlatls
- Slingshots
- Dogs may be used.
- Electronic calls or electronically activated calls may be used.
During fall deer season, hunters must have an unfilled firearms deer hunting permit and a permit to hunt small game.
Trapping Methods
- Traps must have smooth or rubber jaws only
- Foot-hold trap
- Conibear or other killing-type trap
- Foot-enclosing trap
- Cage-type trap
- Colony traps with openings no greater than 6 inches in height and 6 inches wide
- Cable restraint devices
- Snare set underwater
Within communities having 10,000 or more inhabitants, only cage-type or foot-enclosing traps, may be set within 150 feet of any residence or occupied building.
Prohibited Methods
- Arrows containing any drug, poison, chemical, or explosive
- Poisons, tranquilizing drugs, chemicals, or explosives
- Motor driven conveyances may not be used to take, drive, or molest wildlife
- Artificial lights to search for, harass, or disturb wildlife
- You may not take wildlife from or across a public roadway with a firearm, bow, or crossbow
- Snares set on land
- Pitfalls
- Deadfalls
- Nets
- Traps may not be set in paths made or used by people or domestic animals
- Killing-type traps may not be set along public roadways.
You may not possess night vision or thermal imagery equipment while carrying a firearm, bow, or other implement used to take wildlife.
Dogs may not be used during daylight hours from Nov. 1 through the end of the November portion statewide and antlerless portion in open counties.
