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- Hunting Licenses
All Kansas hunters age 16 to
65 must have a resident hunting license. All nonresident hunters,
regardless of age, must purchase a non-resident hunting license.
Any person who has not been a legal resident of the state for
60 days is considered a non resident. Proof that you are a legal
Kansas resident includes voter registration cards, income tax
receipts, or driver's licenses. Lifetime
license holders are considered Kansas residents in regard to
all hunting permits and tags, even if they no longer live in
Kansas.
Military personnel hunting or furharvesting while on leave or
furlough are required to have hunting or furharvesting licenses,
even if they joined the service while residents of Kansas. Non
resident military personnel not
stationed in Kansas must have a non-resident license. Those who
were Kansas residents immediately prior to enlistment may purchase
a resident license.
Non-residents may purchase a special license that is valid only
while hunting on controlled shooting areas.
- Furharvester License
A furharvester license is required to hunt, trap, or pursue (run)
furbearers, or to sell their pelts. A furharvester license is
required to trap coyotes, and a hunting license is required to
hunt them. The same license required to take
coyotes is required to sell their pelts.
Up to two unlicensed, nonparticipating observers may accompany
a licensed furharvester, but only to observe dogs with intent
to purchase them.
Persons under 16 years of age may purchase a furharvester license
at half price. Persons under 14 years of age who are accompanying
a licensed furharvester are not required to purchase the license.
- License exemptions
Kansas hunting and/or furharvesting licenses are not required
for the following:
- 1.1) owners of land or tenants of land
leased or rented for agriculture, and their immediate families
living with them, while hunting or furharvesting on this land;
2.2) legally-defined Native Americans (must apply for free license);
3.3) active-duty military personnel stationed in Kansas may hunt
or furharvest with a resident hunting or furharvesting license,
if they carry evidence identifying them as active-duty military
personnel;
4.4) non-residents who are full-time secondary, post-secondary
or vocational school students in Kansas may obtain resident hunting
licenses but must carry evidence of their status as a Kansas
student; and
5.5) non-residents using field trial permits issued by Wildlife
and Parks
- Handicapped
Persons certified by a physician as having a permanent disability
may be eligible for special permits allowing them to hunt from
a vehicle or hunt deer with a crossbow. For more information
on these permits, contact the
Department of Wildlife and Parks, Law Enforcement Division, 512
SE 25th Ave., Pratt, KS 67124. (Migratory game birds cannot be
hunted from a vehicle, even with a disability permit.)
- Hunter Education Certification
Anyone born on or after July 1, 1957 must successfully complete
a certified hunter education course in order to purchase a hunting
license or hunt, except on lands they own or operate. Resident
hunters under 16 years of age
are not required to purchase a hunting license but must carry
a Hunter Education Certificate (unless hunting on own land),
showing they have completed the course.
Anyone under 27 years old must carry an approved hunter education
certificate while hunting in Kansas. Duplicate cards are available
for $5.50 from the Pratt office.
- Furharvester Education Certification
Persons born on or after July 1, 1966 must successfully complete
a furharvester education course approved by Wildlife and Parks
to purchase a furharvester license or hunt, run, or trap furbearers
or trap coyotes on lands other
than their own.
- Trespass
Without the owner's permission, it is illegal to hunt, shoot,
pursue, or trap any animal on private land, or any traveled public
road or railroad right-of-way adjoining private land.
Written permission is required to enter land posted "Hunting
by Written Permission Only," "Trapping by Written Permission
Only," or "Hunting and Trapping by Permission Only."
- Illegal Pursuit
No game animal, furbearer, or game bird may be shot at, killed,
or pursued from a motorboat, aircraft, motor car, or other vehicle.
It is also illegal to locate or give information concerning the
location of game animals by radio or other mechanical means.
No wild gamebird (except wild turkey) may be shot at or killed
unless that bird is in flight. (Wild turkeys may be shot on the
ground or in flight.)
- Migratory Game Birds
Migratory game birds may be taken only with bow and arrow, falconry,
or shotgun no larger than 10-gauge. Shotguns capable of holding
more than three shells must be plugged (with plug inserted for
no more than one shell in
the chamber and two in the magazine). Migratory game birds may
be taken only within season dates, hours and limits specified.
Migratory game birds may not be taken by any of the following
methods: from a sink box; by use
of live decoys; by the aid of baiting (the use of any grain or
feed to attract migratory birds to an area - unharvested crops
are not considered bait); by use of records or tapes of migratory
bird calls; by driving, rallying or chasing
birds with any motorized conveyance or sailboat to put them in
range of hunters. No person shall possess more than one daily
bag limit in the field, or when returning from the field to one's
car, hunting camp, motel, etc. All
migratory game birds shot shall be retrieved, if possible, and
crippled birds must be killed immediately.
Note: One fully feathered wing and/or head must remain attached
to migratory game birds (except doves) while being transported
from the field to the personal abode of the possessor or commercial
preservation facility.
No person shall take migratory game birds by means of motorboat
or other craft with motor attached, or sailboat, unless the motor
is completely shut off and/or sails furled, and its progress
is ceased. A hunter may retrieve dead
or crippled birds from a craft under power, but crippled birds
may not be shot from such craft under power.
- REGARDLESS OF AGE, anyone hunting on
U.S. Army land, including Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth, must
have completed a certified hunter education course. For more
information on hunting Army land, phone (785)
239-6211 or e-mail at beauforc@riley.army.mil
from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
For hunting seasons, go to the Web site at www.kdwp.state.ks.us/hunting/sportcalendar.html
For hunting and fishing license information, go to www.kdwp.state.ks.us/permits/permits.html
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