Hunting Regulations

It is not legal to:

• refuse an officer’s lawful request to inspect your wildlife, tackle, hunting equipment, devices or license.
• interfere with an officer performing his duties or flee from an officer.
• aid, accompany or abet someone else in a violation.
• hunt or fish after license revocation or suspension.
• transport illegally taken wildlife across state lines.  You may ship wildlife from Arkansas if you display on the package your name and address and the species and quantity of wildlife.
• waste the edible portions of game, fish or waste marketable fur.
• fail to comply with the terms of a Commission-issued permit.
• buy or sell wildlife (or their parts) except for pelts or carcasses of furbearers, squirrel tails, deer antlers, deer hides or feathers from nonmigratory game birds.  For more information, refer to AGFC Code of Regulations 18.03.
• hunt 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise, unless legally hunting furbearers. Trappers may carry a .22 caliber rimfire firearm while checking sets at night. Refer to the 2007-08 Arkansas Waterfowl Regulations Guidebook for shooting hours for migratory  game birds and waterfowl.
• shoot across or hunt within 100 feet of the center of a city, county, state or federally maintained road or its right-of-way.
• shine an artificial light from a public road, street, highway or within a wildlife management area. This does not apply to livestock owners checking on their livestock or others engaged in auto or farm equipment repair, or to the hunting of bullfrogs or furbearers.
• hunt or possess a hunting device in state or national parks. Exceptions are Buffalo National River WMA and Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area.
• possess wildlife taken by someone else, unless accompanied by a signed statement from the taker, stating name, address, species, date taken and license number. This requirement also applies to deer camps, commercial storage/processing facilities, fur buyers and taxidermists.