While the gun deer season has drawn to a close, plenty of unique hunting and trapping opportunities are still available this winter.
Be sure to consult the 2022 combined rules and regulations and season dates and deadlines webpage before heading out on your next adventure.
DEER
- Archery and Crossbow: Now–Jan. 8, 2023
- No bucks may be harvested during the antlerless-only hunts identified below.
- Extended season through Jan. 31, 2023 in certain counties
- Antlerless Only Holiday Hunt: Dec. 24, 2022–Jan. 1, 2023*
- Open only in select Farmland (Zone 2) counties. Please see page 12 of combined hunting regulations for valid counties.
*Hunters may use any unfilled antlerless harvest authorization during any of these hunts, but they must be used in the zone, county and land type designated on the harvest authorization.
MIGRATORY BIRDS
- Southern Goose Zone: Dec. 18–Jan. 3, 2023
- Mississippi River Goose Zone: Now–Jan. 3, 2023
FALL TURKEY
- Zones 1 – 5: Now–Jan. 8, 2023
SMALL GAME
- Cottontail rabbit
- Northern zone: Now-Feb. 28, 2023
- Southern zone: Now-Feb. 28, 2023
- Squirrels (gray and fox)
- Statewide: Now-Feb. 28, 2023
Check the small game hunting regulations for a complete set of rules.
OTHER GAME BIRDS
- Pheasant (Statewide): Now–Jan. 8, 2023
- Ruffed grouse
- Zone A: Now–Jan. 8, 2023
- Crow (Statewide): Jan. 18, 2023–Mar. 20, 2023
- Hungarian partridge (Statewide except in Clark, Marathon and Taylor counties): Now–Jan. 8, 2023
OTHER HUNTING AND TRAPPING OPPORTUNITIES
- Coyote
- Hunting: Year-round
- Trapping: See coyote trapping seasons.
- Fox, red and gray
- Hunting: Now–Feb. 15, 2023
- Trapping: See fox trapping seasons.
- Beaver: See beaver trapping seasons.
- Mink: See mink trapping seasons.
- Muskrat: See muskrat trapping seasons.
- Bobcat
- Hunting: Now-Dec. 25, 2022 and Dec. 26-Jan. 31, 2023
- Trapping: See bobcat trapping seasons.
- Fisher: See fisher trapping seasons.
- Otter: See otter trapping seasons.
- Racoon:
- Resident: Now–Feb. 15, 2023
- Non-Resident: Now–Feb. 15, 2023
- Trapping: See raccoon trapping seasons.
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