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Just saw a comment in another thread about "draws" for tags and some state having a hunting week instead of a season. Just curious about the norms in different areas of the country.
Here in MS we are over-populated with whitetails. Our early Primitive weapon season starts about mid Nov and between primitive and regular rifle seasons, runs through the end of January. Primitive weapons include 35 Whelen in a single shot, break open rifle. I keep hearing the primitive requirements are going to be dropped altogether this season on private land.
That gives us about 10 weeks of rifle hunting. Bow hunting adds approx another month I think. I'm not much of a bow hunter.
There are overall game limits for deer taken throughout the season, but they are virtually ignored as there is no way for the G&F agencies to keep track. We are not required to tag the animals we harvest. Even with these lax rules, we still have over-population.
So what are the seasons and regs in other areas of the country? I figure us hunters in the south are more fortunate than most.
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In Indiana, Bow Season runs from Oct. 1 (though they may change that to Sept 15) to Jan 1. Firearms is the first Saturday after Veteren's Day and runs for two weeks. Muzzleloader only is for 2 weeks, starting a week after gun season ends. Then a special antlerless only season for a week the end of December.
We get to take 1 buck any weapon. Does are pretty much as many as you want with a per hunter quota set by county with the max being 8 per hunter per county. Additional bucks can be taken on state park, military reservation, urban counties, or other special hunts. All but urban are by drawing.
Firearms are a bit restricted. Most use shotgun slug or a muzzleloader. Centerfire rifles can be used as long as the bullet is .357" or bigger and the case shorter than 1.8". Centerfire pistols are pretty much anything bigger than .357 Mag for traditional pistol rounds or most any centerfire rifle rounds with a .243" bullet or larger. Yes, you can use a 300 Win Mag pistol, but not a rifle. Archery season now also included crossbows.
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In the part of NC we hunt (Northwest section) bow season opens in September, there is a two week blackpowder season in early November, rifle season opens the third week of November and runs thru January 1st.
We get six tags: 2 Buck and 4 doe and you can purchase all the extra doe tags you want for use on private land for $5.00 each.
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I saw that thread too, supposedly Im in the state with a 'hunting week' The poster was wrong, as is his way�we have five weeks of deer season, and another six or so if you want to count archery.
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4 months here in LA. 2 Weeks Primitive, 3 Months Rifle, the rest is Archery only. 6 deer limit, 2 antlered, 3 antlerless, and one either sex. If you hunt DMAP land, you can get additional antlerless tags as well.
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This year it's going to run from Sept. 28th (archery opener) to Jan. 4th. I love living in TN!
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Mid sept - early January you can hunt deer in Wisconsin.
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Idaho in the northern part of the state, 3 weeks for bow and Oct 10-Dec. 1st for rifle. You can only harvest 1.
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depending on if you are set up on management or not and what program...
First weekend in OCt give or take, to the first weekend in January. We get some spike/doe weekends that extend towards the end of January.
And then if on management you can start some places Sept 1 with any weapon and go through until mid to end February, probably 2nd or 3rd weekend in February.
For whitetails.
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In Wisconsin we have bow season from mid Sept. to the first Sunday in Jan. Gun seasonis 9 days starting Saturday before Thanksgiving. Then the next day is 10 days of muzzleloader. We have some doe gun weekend hunts in December but with the hard winter we might get rid of some doe seasons.
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16 days for the regular rifle season, plus bow and muzzle loader and special stuff. All I care about are the 16.
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You draw a single deer tag in New Mexico. If you hunt either rifle or muzzleloader you get 5 days. Archers get either ~24 or ~40 days depending on the unit. In terms of months, the hunting runs from September to January with hunts spread throughout.
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Statewide archery (buck and doe) in Pa kicks off around Oct 1 and runs to the middle of November. There is an overlapping weeklong muzzleloader season for antlerless deer, the rifle season (buck and doe) is 2 weeks right after Thanksgiving, and then archery and a Flintlock only season come in for 2 weeks after Christmas.
The special regs area around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh start earlier and run later.
Depending on where you hunt, we can hunt deer from the middle of September to the end of January. No Sundays though. And let's not argue about that in this thread.
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Depends in WY. Many general rifle areas are a week or two for Mule Deer. Some areas in SW Wyoming have had a 3 day season the last few years. Controlled hunts may be up to a month for rifle.
Whitetails in other parts of WY have a much longer season.
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I saw that thread too, supposedly Im in the state with a 'hunting week' The poster was wrong, as is his way�we have five weeks of deer season, and another six or so if you want to count archery. Don't know about where you're at, but in most of the western parts of Montana Mule Deer rifle seasons are about 3 weeks long. Whitetails have the normal 5 weeks.
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365 days a year (366 every 4th year)- either sex, no limit.
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Expanded archery opens in some zones around September 15th. General archery opens October 1 and runs through November. Rifle season opens usually the last Monday of October or first Monday of November and ends the Saturday after Thanksgiving. In northern Maine, the muzzleloader season begins the following Monday and is open for a week. In southern Maine, muzzleloader runs 2 weeks. I also believe but not 100% sure that in some zones, expanded archery re-opens and runs through the end of December.
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365 days a year (366 every 4th year)- either sex, no limit. That's typical for exotics, Texas is the same way.
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