As a last resort, hunters may contact their district Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries office for assistance in obtaining a H. P and CID number. Sign Up. View More Results. Therefore, if you completed your hunter education in another state, you are good to go here. The Alabama Wildlife Heritage Act of provides a mentor provision for hunter education.
Hunting license buyers have the option to hunt under the "supervision required" status in lieu of passing the hunter education course.
However, successful completion of an approved hunter education course is mandatory for all non-supervised hunting license buyers. Hunters under supervision must be under normal voice control, not to exceed 30 feet away from a properly licensed hunter 21 years of age or older. Under no circumstances shall the supervising person be the holder of a "supervision required" license.
Military personnel, and Alabama residents who are active members of the AL National Guard are also exempt from the hunter education requirement. There are two ways to obtain your hunter education class as described below. An in-person class, also called a traditional class, or an all online internet option. Either option fulfills the hunter education requirement needed to purchase your hunting license.
All hunters in Alabama who were born on or after August 1st, are required to get certified in order to purchase a hunting license. Courses can be taken either online or in-person, depending on your preference.
Traditional classroom-style hunter education courses are free in Alabama and are available to students who are 10 years of age or older.
They consist of 8-hour of in-class instruction in addition to a written exam. Hunters can also obtain their Hunter Education Certificate entirely online if they choose. Online courses typically take about hours to complete. Students are issued a Temporary Hunter Education Certificate upon completion. You must be a resident of Alabama who is 10 years of age or older to complete hunter education certification online.
You must be 10 years of age or older to complete a hunter education course in Alabama, and obtain a Hunter Education Certificate. The state of Alabama offers inexperienced adult hunters with the opportunity to partner with a veteran hunter to learn more about the sport, through the Adult Mentored Hunt AMH program.
The program aims to increase hunter participation by teaching participants how to hunt, the benefits of hunting and outdoor recreation. Hunters must register, and be selected, in order to participate in the program. The Alabama Hunter Education Certificate will be accepted in any US state, province, or country which also requires mandatory hunter education, meaning hunters who have obtained their Alabama Hunter Education Certificate may use it to hunt in other states. The Hunting Licence is similar to a permit and is required to hunt any game animal within the state.
Different licenses and permits may be required depending on which game animal is being hunted. A Hunting License is required in the state of Alabama to hunt any game animal. There are a variety of license types available depending on your age, residency status, and what type of game you plan to hunt.
Some of the hunting license types in Alabama include:. Issued to residents of Alabama who are aged This license type is available for either all-game types, or small game only, depending on the license type purchased. The license is valid from the 1st of September through to August 31st, of the following year.
Alabama residents who are 64 years of age or older may obtain a Resident 64 Lifetime License. This license exempts the hunter from being required to obtain future annual hunting licenses, however certain license privileges may still be required including bathing and duck stamp requirements.
This license type is available to hunters who are exempt from purchasing a hunting license, including:. Hunters who are eligible for the H. P license should keep in mind that while they may be exempt from certain license privileges they may still be required to obtain various licenses to participate in certain types of hunter ex.
Baiting, or federal duck stamp requirements. For more information on the HE. Hunters must obtain a baiting privilege license to legally bait white-tailed deer and feral swine within the state of Alabama. Boating is prohibited in public hunting areas, including Wildlife Management Areas.
Hunters who are less than 16 years of age are not required to purchase a hunting license to hunt deer within the state. It is illegal to take any action to harvest a deer within the 50 yard restricted area with a weapon or shot listed above. The law was passed by the State Legislature to address safety issues. All license buyers 16 or older born after August 1, must successfully complete an approved hunter education course.
There are two ways to obtain your hunter education class: an in person class, also called a traditional class, or an all online option. The in person hunter education course is free; whereas the internet course providers charge a fee. Students taking hunter education must be ten years of age or older.
This license requires the hunter to be under the direct supervision of a properly licensed adult hunter while in the field. Hunters under supervision MUST be under normal voice control, not to exceed 30 feet away from a properly licensed hunter 21 years of age or older. A list of classes along with more information about hunter education can be found on our website www. Hunting includes pursuing, shooting, killing, capturing and trapping wild animals, wild birds, and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying or worrying, or placing, setting, drawing or using any device used to take wild animals, wild birds, whether they result in taking or not, and includes every act of assistance to any person in taking or attempting to take wild animals or wild birds.
Legal hunting hours for resident game birds and game animals including deer during open season are daylight hours defined as beginning 30 minutes before official sunrise time until 30 minutes after official sunset time only. Migratory game birds and waterfowl are as specified for each species.
Game animals may be hunted in open season during daylight hours only, except as specified for fox, raccoon, opossum, feral swine, coyote, bullfrog, pig frog and alligator under seasons.
During dates and in areas open by regulation to gun deer season, including youth deer season and muzzleloader deer season, all persons hunting any wildlife species, except foxes, raccoons, and opossums during legal nighttime hours or turkey or migratory birds including crows , are required to wear an outer garment above the waist with a minimum of square inches of hunter orange or either a full-size hunter orange hat or cap.
Only hunter orange, commonly called blaze orange or ten-mile cloth, etc. The various shades of red, as well as camo-orange, are not legal. The following are designated as game animals in Alabama: bear, beaver, coyote, deer, fox, opossum, eastern cottontail rabbit, swamp rabbit, raccoon, squirrel,nutria, mountain lion cougar , red wolf, groundhog, bobcat, feral swine wild hog and alligator.
See Protected Species below. All birds except House Sparrows, crows, collared doves, starlings and blackbirds except rusty are protected by state law.
Game birds and game animals may only be taken during open season for hunting. There is no open season in Alabama for bear, mountain lion cougar and ruffed grouse. Other wildlife species are protected by the nongame species regulation. The following are designated as furbearing animals in Alabama: beaver, bobcat, fox, mink, muskrat, nutria, opossum, otter, raccoon, striped skunk, coyote and feral swine.
Legal bows for hunting is defined as either a longbow, recurve bow, compound bow or crossbow. Longbows, recurve bows and compound bows must have a minimum peak tension of 30 lbs. Crossbows must have a minimum peak tension of 85 lbs at normal draw length.
Attachments to the bow which project visible light are prohibited except with license.
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