46382
Full Member
Posts: 91
|
Post by 46382 on Apr 1, 2019 19:47:09 GMT -5
I'm a landowner. I am an Indiana Resident. I am overweight. I save a ton with Geico. Going to chase thunder chickens on the land I own.
"A valid hunting license issued by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources is required to hunt any species of wild animal on both private and public land in Indiana."
The following are exempt from license requirements:
• Resident owners of Indiana farmland or resident lessees of Indiana farmland who farm that land, their spouses and children living with them, while hunting, fishing or trapping on the farmland they own or lease
So, I guess I don't need a hunting license to kill a turkey on the land I own.
Do I need a $6.75 Game Bird Stamp?
Why can't they rules make sense or be clear?
|
|
|
Post by greghopper on Apr 2, 2019 7:07:20 GMT -5
If your exempt from a lic your exempt from a stamp.
|
|
|
Post by omegahunter on Apr 2, 2019 7:47:05 GMT -5
I don't get adding a stamp to an exclusive license. There is NOTHING else you can hunt with a turkey license, so why bother?
If they want to charge more for turkey hunting, why not just raise the cost of the license to cover the stamp?
Bureaucracy!!
|
|
|
Post by greghopper on Apr 2, 2019 7:57:48 GMT -5
I don't get adding a stamp to an exclusive license. There is NOTHING else you can hunt with a turkey license, so why bother? If they want to charge more for turkey hunting, why not just raise the cost of the license to cover the stamp? Bureaucracy!! Stamp is valid for spring and fall lic... not a one and done stamp!
|
|
|
Post by oldhoyt on Apr 2, 2019 8:45:15 GMT -5
As I read it, as long as the land you own is farmland (which I believe can be all woods), you're good to go.
|
|
|
Post by Woody Williams on Apr 2, 2019 10:58:11 GMT -5
To be on the safe side please re-ask your question in the Ask a CO forum..
|
|
|
Post by moose1am on Apr 3, 2019 20:11:51 GMT -5
Does it have to be tillable farmland? We can farm trees.. right? LOL
Saw a wild turkey cross the road in front of my house and run into my back yard. If I were up on the roof I could have shot him with a shotgun easily. But I don't have my hunting license or any turkey stamps yet. And I was not prepared for a wild turkey to run through my yard. LOL. There is big woods across the street in front of my house. Ten acres with a house in the middle of the woods and a long gravel driveway. We have white-tailed deer that run down this gravel road and cross the main paved road and run through the side of my house into the back yard. One of the young deer got hit by a car and was found dead in the ditch along the road in front of my house. County came out and took it away as there was no way I would keep, clean or eat it.
Now we use to have a big 1/3 acre garden and grew corn, and other edible vegetables. Not really a farm. But if I get a hunting license this year as I normally do. Do I need anything else to hunt these turkeys? I tell you the truth. I'd rather just watch them run through the yard than shoot them. If I need a turkey I can go to the grocery store and buy one. Wild Turkey is a beautiful bird.
There were three of these birds. One female that crossed the road first. The male was strutting around and displaying while on the gravel road next to the main paved road. He later crossed the road and was chasing the female bird. There was another bird, younger one, that stayed on the other side of the main road and vanished into the valley in the woods. I was looking out of the front picture window a the front of the house when I first noticed them. I wish I had my DSLR camera ready to take some pictures.
I was out riding around the Bluegrass Fish and Wildlife area several years ago and got a couple of photos of a Female Wild Turkey with several of her poults in tow. They took off flying and I got some pictures of them in flight. They were kinda blurry as the shutter speed was slow and the lighting was low. I'd like to get some more photo's some day. But it's hard to get ready for them as they are not always around the yard. I saw a few in our back yard a few years ago and that was the very first time that I saw a Wild Turkey around the house.
|
|
|
Post by featherduster on Apr 4, 2019 5:07:56 GMT -5
To be on the safe side please re-ask your question in the Ask a CO forum..
|
|
|
Post by firstwd on Apr 19, 2019 14:48:53 GMT -5
I don't get adding a stamp to an exclusive license. There is NOTHING else you can hunt with a turkey license, so why bother? If they want to charge more for turkey hunting, why not just raise the cost of the license to cover the stamp? Bureaucracy!! The stamp money goes to upland bird research/habitat/programs and those cover all species of upland birds, that is why all species of upland birds require the stamp.
|
|
|
Post by omegahunter on Apr 25, 2019 8:59:57 GMT -5
"Upland game bird is an American term which refers to non-water fowl game birds hunted with pointing breeds, flushing spaniels, and retrievers."
Doesn't sound like a turkey to me.
|
|
|
Post by firstwd on Apr 28, 2019 5:18:05 GMT -5
Turkey are definitely upland, non waterfowl, birds. No clue what hunting dogs have to do with it.
|
|