2013 Early Canada Goose Early Migratory Bird Hunting Season

Early Canada Goose Hunting Season

Opens: 9/1/2013
Closes: 9/15/2013

Shooting Hours: 30 Minutes Before Sunrise Until Sunset

Limits: Daily limit is 5. Possession limit is 10.

2013-2014 Proposed Late Goose Migratory Bird Hunting Season

Proposed Late Goose Hunting Season

White Fronted Snow Goose

Blue Goose

Late Canada Goose

Nov 14 – Jan 26

2013-2014 Proposed Duck Hunting Seasons

Proposed Duck Hunting Seasons

Nov 23 – Dec 1

Dec 5 – Dec 23

Dec 26 – Jan 26

Youth Hunt: Feb 1-2

Federal regulations now allow for a possession limit of three times the daily bag limit.

2013-2014 December-January Dove Hunting Season

Dove - Mourning Dove and Eurasian Collared Dove
Opens: 12/21/2013
Closes: 1/9/2014
Shooting Hours: 30 Minutes Before Sunrise Until Sunset
Limits: Mourning dove daily limit is 15. Possession limit is 30. No daily limit or possession limit on Eurasian Collared Dove.

2013-2014 Furbearer Opossum Hunting Season

Opossum
Opens: 9/1/2013 Sunrise
Closes: 2/28/2014 Sunset
Limits: Daily limit is 2 per day. No possession limit.
More: Dogs allowed.
Day or night hunting; dogs are required for hunting at night.

2013-2014 Furbearer Raccoon Hunting Season

Raccoon
Zones: Statewide
Opens: 7/1/2013 Sunset
Closes: 8/31/2013 Sunrise
Shooting Hours: 30 Minutes After Sunset Until 30 Minutes Before Sunrise
Limits: Daily limit is 4 per day. No possession limit.
More: Night hunting only. Dogs required.

Raccoon
Zones: Statewide
Opens: 9/1/2013 Sunrise
Closes: 11/8/2013 Sunset
Limits: Daily limit is 4 per day. No possession limit.
More: Day and night hunting allowed. Dogs required for hunting at night.

Raccoon
Zones: Statewide
Opens: 11/9/2013 Sunrise
Closes: 3/31/2014 Sunset
More: Day or night hunting allowed. Dogs required to hunt at night.

Hot July Hunting - Raccoon

Raccoon
Zones: Statewide
Opens: 7/1/2013 Sunset
Closes: 8/31/2013 Sunrise
Limits: Daily limit is 4 per day. No possession limit.
More: Night hunting only.
Dogs required.

I've killed a few raccoons out at my grandma's old place on the Bartlett farm at Palmer, Arkansas. Hickory Hill Ridge they called it. Uncle George had an old sawmill and there was a wooden bridge that had sunk under water that is still there. There was an old trapper that lived in the house down the field row from my grandma and more than one raccoon escaped from the trap with a foot missing that i dispatched and sold to the fur dealer at Holly Grove.

Hot July Hunting - Squirrel

Squirrel - Gray, Fox
Zones: Statewide
Opens: 5/15/2013
Closes: 2/28/2014
Limits: Daily limit is 12. Possession limit is 48.
More: Squirrels may not be hunted with rifles or pistols larger than .22 caliber rimfire or with muzzleloaders larger than .40 caliber unless a modern gun or muzzleloading deer season, bear season or coyote season is open. Squirrels may not be hunted with shotguns using rifled slugs or shot larger than T shot.

Squirrel hunting is my favorite kind of hunting. When I was a teen in high school I spent my whole weekends sometimes in the woods watching and hunting squirrels. Sometimes I would have a dog with me but most times I was alone and would stalk a bushy tail. My eyes are worse now and having to keep up with glasses to see straight to shoot is sometimes a problem but I still love to get out in the woods. Fried squirrel and squirrel dumplins were a staple at my house growing up.

Hot July Hunting - Coyote

Coyote
Zones: Statewide
Opens: 7/1/2013 Sunrise
Closes: 2/28/2014 Sunset
Limits: No limit.
More: Dogs allowed except when deer seasons for that deer zone prohibit the use of dogs.
Day hunting only.
Coyote may be taken with archery equipment, firearms of any caliber or shotguns with shot no larger than T shot.

I've never been on a coyote hunt but I think I'd like to go. I've seen videos of guys sitting in the bed of a truck with a pa sound system calling in coyotes to shoot.

Hot July Hunting - Bullfrogs

Frog
Zones: Statewide
Opens: 4/15/2013 Noon
Closes: 12/31/2013 Midnight
Limits: Daily limit (from noon to noon) of 18. Possession limit of 36.
More: Only bullfrogs may be taken. Bullfrogs may be taken using bare hands, hand nets, hook-and-line, gig, spear or bow-and-arrow. A fishing license is required to take bullfrogs. Bullfrogs may not be sold.

I love a good mess of frog legs but it's been years since I went out on the creeks and ditches to spear these buggers. There were definitely some hot nights filled with gigging frogs, drinking beer, courting girls, and running from dads usually all in the same night.