Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 800 - Department of Wildlife Conservation › Chapter 25 - Wildlife Rules › Subchapter 5 - Migratory Bird Hunting Season › Part 1 - DUCKS, MERGANSERS, COOTS, GEESE, MOURNING, WHITE-WINGED AND EURASIAN COLLARED DOVES, WOODCOCK, VIRGINIA AND SORA RAIL, COMMON MOORHEN, PURPLE GALLINULE, SNIPE AND SANDHILL › Section 800:25-5-2.2 - General provisions for migratory game birds

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following provisions apply to the taking of migratory
					 game birds:
(1)
Hunting
				  hours.
Unless otherwise provided, the hunting hours shall be one-half
				  hour before official sunrise to official sunset.
(2)
Legal means of taking.
The
				  legal means of taking shall be shotgun (conventional or muzzleloading), bow and
				  arrow or legal raptors and as otherwise provided. Shotguns must not be larger
				  than 10 gauge. No rifles, pistols or shotgun slugs. Shotguns must be incapable
				  of holding more than three (3) shells in the magazine and chamber combined.
				  Specific limitations otherwise provided by law shall control over the general
				  requirements of this section.
(3)
Nontoxic shot requirements.
All waterfowl and coot hunting is
				  restricted to use of federally approved nontoxic shot in all areas of the
				  state.
(4)
Hunting from
				  boats.
No person may take migratory game birds from any motor-boat or
				  sailboat unless the motor has been shut off and/or the sails furled and the
				  boat has stopped.
(5)
Baiting.
Migratory game birds may not be baited or taken on or
				  over any baited areas.
(6)
Retrieving responsibility.
All hunters area required to make a
				  reasonable effort to retrieve any migratory game bird killed and include such
				  birds in their daily bag limit.
(7)
Hunting in two states.
A hunter who hunts in two states having
				  separate daily bag limits, may not exceed the largest number of birds that can
				  legally be taken in one of the states in which they take birds.
(8)
Wildlife management areas.
All management areas are open to migratory game bird hunting during designated
				  seasons unless otherwise closed to hunting during those seasons.
(9)
National Migratory Bird Harvest
				  Information Program requirements.
Licensed migratory bird hunters,
				  including lifetime license holders who hunt migratory birds, will be required
				  annually to obtain and complete a Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program
				  (HIP)permit and have the permit in their possession while hunting migratory
				  birds. Hunters under sixteen (16) years of age, senior citizens (age sixty-four
				  (64) or older or those who turn sixty-four (64) during the calendar year in
				  which they intend to hunt migratory birds) and landowners hunting on their own
				  property are exempt from the requirements of the National Migratory Bird
				  Harvest Information Program. HIP permits can be obtained at any hunting license
				  dealer as part of the Universal License form. The effective dates that the HIP
				  permits will be valid for any given migratory bird season will be from July 1
				  through June 30.
Added at 15 Ok Reg
					 277, eff 9-5-97 (emergency); Added at 15 Ok Reg 1803, eff 5-15-98; Amended at
					 16 Ok Reg 15, eff 8-20-98 (emergency); Amended at 16 Ok Reg 1643, eff 5-31-99;
					 Amended at 18 Ok Reg 1798, eff 6-1-01; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 1446, eff
					 6-1-04