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Friday, August 31, 2018
Welcome back to
the South Arkansas
Hunting and
Sporting Guide
By Katie Meade
Special to the News-Times
Hello again to all and welcome to the 2018 Hunting and Sporting Guide!
I can’t believe it is already time to start planning for hunting season and I couldn’t be more excited! I feel a little weird since this is the first time I’m not working on this edition in-house
or seeing businesses for ads, but we all came together to bring you the fourth edition of this publication. It was an idea I had shortly after I came to work at the News-Times and we have had so much fun bringing it to the camo-clad majority of Union County and surrounding areas.
Hunting season is a family tradition for many. Deer camps become the social hot spots for most blue collar families.
The husband, wife, kids, neighbors and dogs all spend their weekends and saved vacation days for fall and winter. You will even see people that don’t hunt at their friend’s deer camp just to socialize. A big fire in the homemade fire pit surrounded
by friends and family is all you need to relax and leave your worries at home.
With bow season opening in just a few weeks along with
teal and dove season, it is time to get prepared. I promise you will find just about everything you need inside. Whether you need a new gun, ammo, bow repair/ tuning, deer processing, taxidermist, clothes, boots, deer corn, feeders, camp supplies or someone to bush hog a shooting lane, you can find all of this and more just by turning the pages!
Go to the camp, hit the woods and make some memories
this fall and winter. Whether you are in pursuit of deer, ducks, hogs, squirrels, rabbits or are working on predator trapping, be safe and have fun. Take a kid with you, too. The things that you can teach a child in the outdoors aren’t taught in a classroom. Show your kids how to track an animal, use a compass, identify animal tracks, teach them animal sounds and show them how to process game because eating is a necessity.
Happy hunting season everybody!
El Dorado News-Times 3 Season information
DEER SEASON
Archery: Sept. 23-Feb. 28
Private land antlerless-only modern gun deer hunt: Oct. 14-18
Muzzleloader: Oct. 21-29 and Dec. 29-31
Special youth modern gun deer hunt: Nov. 4-5 and Jan. 6-7
Modern gun: Nov. 11-Dec. 17 and Dec. 26-28
Bag limit for Zone 12 (which includes Union, Columbia, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Nevada, Dallas, Grant, Drew counties, as well as parts of Lafayette, Hempstead, Clark, Saline, Pulaski, Jefferson and Lincoln counties): Six deer, which may include two bucks with archery, muzzleloader
or modern gun; six does with archery, muzzleloader and modern gun combined.
More information: Dogs are allowed for deer hunting from Nov 11 to Dec. 17 and up to two dogs can be used to blood trail wounded deer. Legal bucks must be button bucks or have at least three points on one side of their rack. No dogs can be used for deer hunting on the Beryl Anthony Lower Ouachita Wildlife Management Area.
QUAILS
Nov. 1-Feb. 4
Daily limit: six Possession limit: 12
More information: Pen-raised quail may be taken with a Shoot-
To-Kill Bird Dog Field Training Permit, available from a local wildlife officer.
RABBITS
Sept. 1-Feb. 28
Daily limit: eight Possession limit: 16
More information: Rabbits
can not be hunted with rifles or handguns larger than .22 caliber rimfire or with muzzleloaders larger than .40 caliber unless a modern gun or muzzleloading deer, beer or coyote season is open. Rabbits can not be hunted with shotguns using rifled slugs or shot larger than T shot, and up to eight box traps may be used. The traps should have interior dimensions of up to 8 inches wide and 10 inches tall.
SQUIRRELS
May 15-Feb. 28
Daily limit: 12 Possession limit: 48
More information: Dogs are allowed in squirrel hunting. Squirrels can not be hunted
with rifles or handguns larger than .22 caliber rimfire or with muzzleloaders larger than .40 caliber unless a modern gun
or muzzleloading deer, beer or coyote season is open. Squirrels can not be hunted with shotguns using rifled slugs or shot larger than T shot.
CROWS
Sept. 1-Feb. 19 (open only Thursdays through Mondays)
No bag limit.
More information: Crows
can not be hunted with rifles or handguns larger than .22 caliber rimfire or with muzzleloaders larger than .40 caliber unless a modern gun or muzzleloading deer, beer or coyote season is open. Crows can not be hunted with shotguns using rifled slugs or shot larger than T shot. Crows can not be hunted over bait.
GRAY FOX, RED FOX, MINK and STRIPED
SKUNK
Sunrise Sept. 1-sunset Feb. 28 (day hunting only)
Bag limit: two per day; no bag limit for striped skunk
More information: Foxes can be taken during daylight hours with archery equipment or any rifle or shotgun ammunition.
For mink and striped skunk, use archery equipment or firearms no larger than .22 caliber rimfire or shotguns with shot no larger than T shot.
OPOSSUM
Sunrise Sept. 1-sunset Feb. 28 (day or night hunting)
Bag limit: two per day More information: Dogs are
required for night hunting. Use archery equipment or firearms no larger than .22 caliber rimfire or shotguns with shot no larger than T shot.
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