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I am curious as to how hunting regs are different in each state. I am talking hunting on your own. How old is it in your state.

In Pennsylvania the age is 16. You can hunt at a much younger age if accompanied by an Adult.

Think I was 14 (big game)hunting with my dad. Maybe 13?

By myself maybe 16?

Speaking for MT.

Learners permit for driving about the same time.

Sam, Is that the legal age to be able to hunt on your own in Montana?

Ten

Here in IN, I don't think there's a minimum age. If you can pass the hunters education class, you can hunt on your own.

12 in ohio

Grand Pa sent me to the woods with his single shot .22 and a hand full of cartridges when I was 6, didn't know there was a law about it, it was our woods and he liked squirrel.

Probably 13 or 14 before I was handed a firearm and set off by myself.
At my age now, people are telling me I'm too OLD to hunt alone! 😖

I was hunting rabbits on me own at 10 years old, <not sure if legal age or not, but no one said anything> or along with a nother fourth grade friend. No adult supervision. Lived in a small country town, would ride threw town on our bikes, with our 22’s strung across our backs. Adults in town would wave a greet us, but no one bothered us any. Life was so much simpler back then.

I deer hunted with a S&W 38 when I was eight. Get some Ballz

Diesel, I think it is 16 years old to hunt alone in MT.

Could be wrong, probably.

I stayed with The Old Man the first 2 years. When I was 14, my younger brother was starting, so I was on my own. I killed a spike that year. Had no idea how to gut it! Luckily, my uncle was on the hill above me and come down to give me some instruction.
I turned Ben loose on squirrels at 13, and deer a year later. He killed one and waited for me to gut it.
Those kids can whack them with no trouble, but it seems that field dressing is a slight hang up!
7mm

I was a Cotton Tail killer at 8 yrs old, killed my first Mule Deer a small 4 point at 8 yrs old, shot a Cow Elk, with my Granddad's 30-30, she was eating at our hay stack, Granddad said shoot her in the head, and i did. we drug her back to the barn and dressed her out, my Grandmother was the best and fastest deer and Elk skinner i have ever seen. was i legal ? hell i don't know, that was over 75 years ago. Rio7

Drivers license at 16

Hunting license at 16

yea yea yea

just givin' ya schidtt..........

Not sure what the law may have been in Flordia in the 60s.
Hunted most days after school.

Single digits I was restricted to a 410 and a 22, lots of small game met its match with those two guns. Doves, Quail, Rabbits, Squirrels.

11 years of age it was a 30-30 (Ted Willams) and a single shot 20ga. (Ithaca). Deer and Wild Pigs died.

In Virginia the age is 12 years old to hunt by yourself, if you have had an approved hunter safety course.

Without a hunter safety course hunters age 12 to 15 must be accompanied by a licensed adult hunter. Anyone, regardless of age, must have a hunter safety course to hunt by themselves if they have never held a hunting license before. An option for a first time hunter is to purchase an apprentice license which allows a first time hunter, regardless of age, to hunt while being directly supervised by a properly licensed experienced hunter. The apprentice license is good for one year, I think, which gives the hunter time to find a safety course to attend.

No age law against hunting alone... if big game hunting as in requiring a tag, minimum age is 10 with license and hunters safety course or 14 without hunter safety. Under 10 you must have a license or accompanied by a licensed adult, small game, birds and varmints.

Youth combo hunt/fish licenses are 5 bucks until they are 18.

No safety course required to hunt small game ect at birth, or big game after 13 years old.

I was about 8 when dad bought my older brother and I a 410 for doves and a couple 22s for rabbits, we could get off the school bus and bike or walk to the maze fields or citrus groves to hunt. I was probably 10 when I hunted by myself first, but usually with my brother or friend, who I still hunt and fish with.

Kent

Diesel: I killed my first Mule Deer at age 12 out in taxington state - that was legal back in 1959.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Nope. There is no minimum age to hunt in TN. The 10 yr old thing only applies to the specific juvenile only hunts. Both of my sons killed deer well before they turned 10.