Louisiana Hunting

Any person hunting any wildlife during the open firearms deer hunting season and possessing buckshot, slugs, a primitive firearm, or a centerfire firearm shall display on their head, chest and/or back a total of not less than 400 square inches of “Hunter Orange” or “Blaze Pink.” EXCEPTIONS Persons hunting on privately owned land may wear a Hunter Orange or Blaze Pink cap or hat in lieu of the 400 square inches. Not required of persons hunting deer from elevated stands on property that is privately owned. However, anyone hunting deer on such lands where hunting with firearms is allowed shall be required to display the 400 square inches or a Hunter Orange or Blaze Pink cap or hat while walking to and from elevated stands. Not required of archery deer hunters hunting on lands where firearm hunting is not allowed by agreement of the landowner or lessee. WARNING: Deer hunters are cautioned to watch for persons hunting other game or engaged in activities not requiring “Hunter Orange” or “Blaze Pink.”

Legal Gear for Archery Season includes: Traditional bow, compound bow, crossbow, or any bow drawn, held or released by mechanical means. Either-sex deer may be taken in all areas open for deer hunting EXCEPT when a Bucks Only season is in progress. In such cases, archers must conform to the bucks only regulations.

Legal Gear for Primitive Firearms Season includes: Rifles or pistols, .44 caliber minimum, or shotguns 10 gauge or smaller, all of which must load exclusively from the muzzle, use black powder or approved substitute only, take ball, shot, or bullet projectile only, including saboted bullets. All of the above may be fitted with magnified scopes. Single shot, breech loading rifles or single shot, breech loading pistols, .35 caliber or larger, having an exposed hammer that use metallic cartridges loaded either with black powder or modern smokeless powder. All of the above may be fitted with magnified scopes. Single shot, breech loading shotguns, 10 gauge or smaller, having an exposed hammer, loaded with buckshot or slug.

Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Consult Wildlife Management Area and Federal Land schedules for specific regulations and dates on those areas.

One antlered and one antlerless deer per day EXCEPT when a Bucks Only season is in progress and EXCEPT on Floy Ward McElroy WMA and EXCEPT on some Federal Lands where the daily limit is one deer per day (see specific Federal Lands Regulations for details).

Season limit is six, not to exceed three antlered OR four antlerless deer, EXCEPT Deer Area 4 season limit is three (not to exceed two antlered or two antlerless deer), and EXCEPT Deer Area 10 season limit is three (not to exceed two antlered or two antlerless deer). Deer harvested on property enrolled in DMAP may not count in the season or daily bag limit for hunters. See DMAP Regulations (LAC 76:v.111) for more information.

Daily Bag Limit: 3 Possession Limit: 9

1. Ducks, Geese, Teal, Rail, Gallinule, Snipe and Woodcock: One-Half Hour before sunrise to sunset, EXCEPT:

• Shooting hours for Snipe at the Spanish Lake Recreation Area in Iberia Parish, including the Conservation Order, shall end at 2 p.m.

2. Mourning Dove: One-Half Hour before sunrise to sunset EXCEPT: For opening day of the first split on WMAs and LDWF leased dove fields where shooting hours will be 12 p.m. (noon) to sunset, EXCEPT: for Elbow Slough WMA, which will be open one-half hour before sunrise to 12 p.m. (noon) on opening weekend of the first split.

Daily Bag Limit: 15 in the aggregate Possession Limit: 45 in the aggregate

Daily Bag Limit: 15 in the aggregate Possession Limit: 45 in the aggregate

Daily Bag Limit: 25 in the aggregate Possession Limit: 75 in the aggregate

Daily Bag Limit: 8 Possession Limit: 24

Daily Bag Limit: 1 Possession Limit: 3

Daily Bag Limit: 20 Possession Limit: No Limit

Daily Bag Limit: 3 Possession Limit: 9

Daily Bag Limit: 10 Possession Limit: 30

Daily Bag Limit: 8 Possession Limit: 24

One per calendar year.

Daily Bag Limit: 3 Possession Limit: 9

A licensed hunter may take raccoon or opossum, two per person per day, during daylight hours only, during the open hunting season

on WMAs. Nighttime experimental raccoon hunting: All nighttime raccoon hunting, where allowed, is with dogs only.

Shotguns, including muzzleloading shotguns, using shot not larger than #2 lead, #2 non-toxic, or BB steel shot, and being no larger than 10 gauge. Traditional bow, compound bow, and crossbow, or any bow drawn, held or released by mechanical means.

One gobbler per day.

Two gobblers per season.

Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Consult Wildlife Management Area and Federal Land schedules for specific regulations and dates on those areas.

No bag or possession limit. See “Geese” section for more details.

No person shall take migratory game birds while possessing shot other than steel or other approved shot. This restriction applies only to ducks, geese, brant, swans and coots.

Daily Bag Limit: 6 Possession Limit: 18

Daily Bag Limit: 15 Possession Limit: 45

Daily bag limit on ducks is 6 and may include no more than 4 mallards (no more than 2 females), 3 wood ducks, 2 canvasbacks, 2 redheads, 1 mottled duck, 1 black duck and 1 pintail. Only 1 scaup may be taken for the first 15 days of the season with 2 per day allowed for the remainder.

The daily bag limit for coots is 15.

The daily bag limit for mergansers is 5; only 2 of which may be hooded mergansers. Merganser limits are in addition to the daily bag limit for ducks.