Legal shooting hours by state

Legal hunting hours for resident game birds and game animals including deer during open season are daylight hours only, defined as beginning 30 minutes before official sunrise time until 30 minutes after official sunset time.

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Applies to: Big game

Not verified. The ADF&G statewide regulations do not list general shooting hours for big game, so check your unit's rules. If you have flown, you may not hunt or help someone take big game until 3:00 a.m. the day after the flight, with limited exceptions. Confirm with the official regulations before you hunt.

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Legal shooting time is during daylight hours, per the sunrise-sunset chart, or as prescribed by the Commission. Arizona does not use the half-hour-either-side rule that neighboring states use.

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Hunting wildlife at night is prohibited, and the AGFC Code defines night as 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise, so general hunting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset. Migratory birds follow their own hours, such as sunrise for early teal and a noon close for ducks on WMAs.

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Applies to: Big game

14 CCR 352: big game may be taken from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

2 CCR 406-2 number 202: big game may be taken from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer may be hunted from 1/2 hour before sunrise until sunset in all deer seasons.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Small game hours run from 1/2 hour before sunrise until 1/2 hour after sunset, which differs from the deer hours.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer may be hunted from 1/2 hour before sunrise until 1/2 hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Waterfowl

Waterfowl and gamebirds may be hunted from 1/2 hour before sunrise until sunset.

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Applies to: Furbearers

Furbearers may be hunted from 1/2 hour before sunrise until sunset. Raccoon and opossum may be hunted from one hour after sunset until midnight during specified seasons.

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Hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset on lands outside of the wildlife management area system. Spring turkey hours on most areas are sunrise to sunset, and on private land one-half hour before sunrise to sunset. WMAs vary by area brochure.

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Legal hours for hunting are 30 minutes before sunrise until 30 minutes after sunset, except for the species that may be hunted at night.

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Applies to: Big game

Game mammals may be hunted from one-half hour before sunrise until one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

HAR 13-122-8: hunting is permitted from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset for all legal game birds unless otherwise designated.

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Applies to: Big game

IDAPA 13.01.07.400: big game and upland game animals and birds may be taken from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Waterfowl

IDAPA 13.01.07.400: migratory game birds and wild turkey may be taken from one-half hour before sunrise until sunset.

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Hunting hours run from a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset, for archery and firearm alike.

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The legal deer hunting hours in Indiana are from half an hour before sunrise until half an hour after sunset, and bobcat hours are the same. Turkey runs from a half hour before sunrise to sunset, waterfowl from a half hour before sunrise to sunset, teal sunrise to sunset, and furbearers have no time restrictions.

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Applies to: Deer

Shooting hours for all deer seasons are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

K.A.R. 115-4-4 sets deer, antelope and elk hours from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Most game birds and small game may be taken from one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.

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Thirty minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset for deer and most species. Elk may be hunted only during daylight hours, from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset.

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Hunting hours for resident game birds and animals are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. WMAs and federal lands may differ.

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Wild birds and wild animals may not be hunted from 1/2 hour after sunset until 1/2 hour before sunrise the following day. Legal hunting hours are based on sunrise and sunset in Bangor, Maine (Eastern Standard Time).

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One half hour before sunrise to one half hour after sunset, with exceptions for certain Sundays in specific counties.

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Applies to: Big game

Hunting hours begin 1/2 hour before sunrise and end 1/2 hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Furbearers

Coyote is the exception: hours begin 1/2 hour before sunrise and end at midnight, except during shotgun deer season when they end 1/2 hour after sunset. From 1/2 hour after sunset to midnight rifles are restricted to those chambered not larger than .22 long rifle and handguns not larger than .38 caliber.

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Hunting hours run from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset, with exact times given by date and zone in the regulation tables.

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Applies to: Big game

Minn. Stat. section 97B.075 provides that big game and wolves may be taken from one-half hour before sunrise until one-half hour after sunset. Note that an extract of the DNR handbook rendered firearms deer hours as one-half hour before sunrise to sunset; the statute is used here, so re-check the current handbook.

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Applies to: Waterfowl

Waterfowl may be taken from one-half hour before sunrise until sunset. For other protected wild animals, except raccoon and fox, the evening and morning times are set by commissioner's rule.

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Legal shooting hours for resident game are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

Hunting hours for game animals, including deer, elk, antelope and bear, run from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset each day of the season. Use FWP's sunrise-sunset tables for your area.

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Applies to: Bear

Authorized black bear hunting and training hours begin one-half hour before sunrise and end one-half hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

It is legal to hunt big game 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes following sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

Legal shooting hours for hunting big game species in Nevada are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset, except for mountain lion, which can be legally hunted at any time of day or night.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer hunting hours run from 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer may be hunted from half hour before sunrise to half hour after sunset. It is prohibited to use a bow one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour before sunrise during any hunting season.

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Applies to: Big game

19.31.10 NMAC: a person may only take or attempt to take any big game species or turkey during the period from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. The same window applies to upland game.

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Applies to: Big game

Deer and bear may be hunted from 1/2-hour before sunrise to 1/2-hour after sunset.

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Game may be taken only between 30 minutes before sunrise and 30 minutes after sunset with firearms and archery, except raccoons, opossums and feral swine, which may be hunted at night.

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Shooting hours run from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset, with season openers at noon Central Time as specified in the regulations.

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Applies to: Deer

Deer hunting hours run from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset.

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Shooting hours run from one-half hour before official sunrise to one-half hour after official sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

Game mammals may only be hunted from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset for all small and big game. Spring gobbler is restricted to one-half hour before sunrise until noon during the youth hunt and the opening phase, with the standard window applying later in the season.

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Deer hunting hours run from 1/2 hour before sunrise until 1/2 hour after sunset. Small game and pheasant are sunrise to sunset, waterfowl 1/2 hour before sunrise to sunset, and spring turkey 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1:00 PM.

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Applies to: Deer

For deer, legal hours are the time between one hour before official sunrise until one hour after official sunset. Night is defined as that period of time between one hour after official sunset of a day and one hour before official sunrise of the following day.

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Applies to: Big game

Archery and firearm shooting hours for big game are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset, except turkey which is one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.

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All big game and small game species may be hunted during daylight hours only, from 30 minutes before legal sunrise to 30 minutes after legal sunset. The exceptions are bullfrogs, raccoons, opossums, the chasing of foxes and rabbits, and coyotes and bobcats during the night-time season.

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For game animals and upland birds the period is from one-half hour before official sunrise to one-half hour after official sunset.

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Applies to: Waterfowl

For migratory birds the period is one-half hour before official sunrise to sunset. Special White-winged Dove Days run from noon to sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

You may take big game animals from 30 minutes before official sunrise until 30 minutes after official sunset.

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Applies to: Big game

Big game hunting hours run from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset, with specific exceptions for turkey, raccoon and waterfowl.

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One half-hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Spring turkey hunting runs from one half-hour before sunrise until 12 noon, except during the final 20 days, when it runs from one half-hour before sunrise until sunset.

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Shooting hours run from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset for game animals and forest grouse. WDFW notes specific exceptions for bobcat, raccoon, turkey and falconry seasons.

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Applies to: Big game

You may hunt deer from 1/2 hour before sunrise until 1/2 hour after sunset. The same hours apply to bear, wild turkey and wild boar.

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Not verified. Shooting hours are set by DNR tables (one for deer, bear, elk, small game and fall turkey; one for migratory birds and spring turkey; one for early teal): find your zone on the shooting-hours zone map and add its minutes to the table's opening and closing times, and it is illegal to shoot at game outside those hours. Coyote, fox, raccoon and unprotected species have no shooting-hour limit except when hunted with a bow or crossbow during the bear and archery deer seasons. The base times could not be read because the DNR tables are hosted on a site that blocked retrieval. Confirm with the official regulations before you hunt.

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Big game, trophy game and small game animals may only be taken from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.

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