Survey: Hunters may be invited to complete a KANSAS DEER HUNTER HARVEST online survey at the end of the season. The information obtained helps biologists make decisions and lead a healthy herd. A random sample of hunters is contacted after the season, so it is important that hunters update their addresses annually when purchasing a permit. Hunters surveyed receive an email or postcard with a web link to direct them to a website with the online survey. If you have any questions about this investigation or for assistance in conducting it, please contact the KDWPT Research and Investigation Office at (620) 342-0658. State law (K.S.A. 32-937) requires deer hunters who receive a harvest report to complete the survey. Reimbursement of the permit may be made for the following reasons: (1) death of the applicant prior to the season of use; (2) unknowingly duplicate a particular problem (does not include reproduction that violates a law or regulation); (3) a permit issued in error by the Ministry; (4) members of the armed forces who change their place of service before the first day of the season and prevent the use of the permit; and (5) by court order or prosecutor`s direction. Reimbursement of the permit will not be granted once the legal season for this permit opens. Hunting licenses on your own land apply to both species during each season with legal equipment for that season, and only on land owned and operated for agricultural purposes. This permit is available to individuals who are considered landowners, tenants, non-resident landowners or family members living with a resident owner or tenant.
Before taking the trail, hunters should tuck pants into socks and shirts into pants to prevent ticks from crawling into clothing. It is advisable to limit walking time on hunting trails, as ticks target these trails to cling to their wildlife. After returning from the outside, hunters should immediately take a shower to remove ticks that do not adhere and then perform a body examination. Ticks in the larval and nymph stages are harder to see than adult ticks, so careful and thorough inspections are necessary, especially in the armpits and waste line, where belts limit tick upward movement. Dogs should also be screened for ticks. In addition, clothing worn outdoors when ticks are active should be stored in an airtight bag until washed, and shoes should be left outside to prevent ticks from entering a home. For instructions on how to check for ticks and remove ticks, see www.cdc.gov/features/h. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious neurological disease of deer, moose, moose and other deer caused by the deposition and agglutination of abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain that kill neurons, resulting in cytoplasmic vacuolization and characteristic sponge-like degeneration of the brains of infected animals. External symptoms of the disease are wasting, abnormal behavior, excessive salivation and loss of bodily functions. Predators often see, kill, and eat these vulnerable and symptomatic animals long before they are seen by humans. CWD-positive deer are often seen near outbuildings on farms or near bodies of water.
Symptoms manifest themselves only in the last months before the deer dies; As a result, most CWD-positive deer are asymptomatic and appear normal when shot. Deer adapt to hunting pressure and find areas where they can avoid hunters. In some cases, these areas are created because a particular landowner wants to restrict or prohibit hunter access. Protected areas serve as sanctuaries and can result in future herd growth and greater damage to deer on nearby or other properties where protected deer spend time when the hunting season is closed. Bait, lures and non-electric calls can be used when hunting big game. Hunters can use blinds and brackets. Distance measuring devices and optical riflescopes or sights that do not project visible light onto the target and do not electronically amplify visible or infrared light may be used. Horses and mules should not be used to guard or drive big game. Firearm detection devices can be used with the appropriate permits. Handguns can be owned during all big game seasons.
However, for big game hunting, only handguns designated as legal firearms equipment or muzzle-loading seasons may be used. This permit may be issued to siblings of a resident landowner or tenant and immediate or descendant relatives or their spouses, whether or not they are Kansas residents. (For example, a grandson or his wife, daughter or husband, parent or brother, or wife would be eligible for this authorization. The uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or cousin of a landowner or tenant are not entitled to this permit.) The permit applies only to land owned or operated by the owner or tenant and can be used at any time of the year with legal equipment for that season. Permits are limited to one per 80 hectares owned or in operation. A non-resident hunter with this authorization must hold a non-resident hunting licence. Firearms licence holders are allowed to hunt with any legal equipment during firearms season. Muzzle loading permit holders may hunt with muzzle-loading or bow-loading equipment only during muzzle loading and firearms season. Archery licence holders may only use archery equipment during the archery season, including days that overlap with the muzzle-loading firearms season or the regular firearms season. Dogs can be used to locate dead or injured big game with the following restrictions: each dog must be kept on a leash at all times; A person following big game outside of legal shooting hours must not carry equipment capable of catching big game; and each individual harvest of big game is limited to the type of equipment to be approved and the season approved. Any person involved in the pursuit of big game must hold a hunting licence, unless exempted by law. To find people with trained blood detection dogs, go to <a href="www.unitedbloodtrackers.org.
If you`re looking for a night hunt, you`re in luck. You can hunt coyotes at night in Kansas, but artificial light, including optics that project or amplify light, is prohibited. Kansas antelope, deer, elk, turkey, duck and teal management units. Please hunt responsibly, follow all signs and do a safe legal hunt. Landowners have several options for controlling deer on their property: 1) allowing or increasing hunting; 2) encourage hunters to hunt antlerless deer; 3) Contact KDWPT at (620) 672-5911 for a list of hunter recommendations; or 4) Apply for game control permits, which can be used if damage occurs while normal hunting seasons are closed. Hunters with a permit to remove a deer with antlers may obtain up to five (5) permits for antlerless white-tailed deer. The first Virginia woodless permit acquired is valid nationwide, with the exception of DMU 18, including all public lands and WIHA. Up to four additional such permits may be issued to the same person and are valid only in units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10A, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 19 on private land with permission of the landowner, pedestrian hunting grounds and Glen Elder Wildlife Reserves, Kanopolis, Lovewell, Norton, Webster and Wilson, and Kirwin National Wildlife Area.
All whitetail hunting permits only are valid during each season, with equipment legal for that season. Any legal equipment can be used to catch a white-tailed deer with no visible antlers clearly protruding from its skull during the extended season. A valid Kansas hunting license is required, unless exempted by Kansas law. Hunter orange clothing is required. Ticks can carry germs that cause serious and sometimes fatal diseases such as tularemia, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease. Tick-borne diseases are transmitted to humans when an infected tick bites a human. In Kansas, about 300 people are diagnosed with a tick-borne disease each year. CWD testing is not a food safety test. Testing is done to measure herd health and not all samples should be tested if the target number of seeds has been reached.
Hunters are notified by telephone if their sample is positive for CWD. It usually takes about 1 to 1.5 weeks to get a result once the sample arrives at the KSVDL. Samples submitted by the University of Missouri are not a cost to the hunter for testing, but the processing time for results is closer to 2-4 weeks. Keep in mind that animals subjected to taxidermists may not be sent for analysis immediately, but may be sent to the laboratory in large quantities a few times during the season. To qualify as a non-resident landowner, a person must own a farm or ranch in simple possession with their name on the deed. Property owned by a trust, LLC, partnership or other legal entity belongs to that legal entity. Permits for land owned by a corporation are only available to tenants who cultivate at least 80 hectares or manage a farm of 80 hectares or more that produces an agricultural product such as grain or livestock. Serving as a director, trustee, non-executive partner, or other similar position does not qualify a person for a Kansas landowner deer license.
For more details, call (620) 672-5911 and ask law enforcement. Hunters should always wear gloves when handling sick or dead animals. Ethical hunters choose equipment as efficiently as possible based on their skills, the game they hunt and the hunting style they prefer. Hunters must consider muzzle velocity, kinetic energy, bullet type, recoil and accuracy when selecting suitable equipment for game hunted. A Kansas hunting license is required (unless exempted by Kansas law) to collect or drive big game and wild turkeys for a license holder.