Hunting – A Pure Michigan Sporting Experience
There are not many people in Michigan who don’t know when hunting season begins. The freeways are a steady stream of trailers, SUVs and trucks loaded with gear and heading north.
Michigan is a great outdoors sporting destination with acres of forests, trails, streams and plentiful wildlife. “Hunter’s Orange” is the fashionable color of the season as well as a safety requirement for several types of hunting categories. Hunting is an important wildlife management tool and recreational opportunity. Be sure you know the rules of the hunt for an enjoyable and safe sporting vacation.
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Rules of the Hunt
Most hunters know that the lasting fun of hunting comes only when it is conducted safely and ethically.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) offers online purchase of hunting and fishing licenses, special hunt applications and permits 24 hours a day, 7 days a week within applicable sales dates.
Hunter education in Michigan has taught thousands of people safe hunting techniques, firearm handling and hunter ethics. Hunter safety is required if you were born after January 1, 1960 and you want to purchase any Michigan hunting license, or if you are planning an out-of-state hunting trip.
Hunters can be licensed at age 10. A hunter must be at least 12 years old to hunt deer, bear or elk with a firearm. Hunters age 12-13 may hunt deer, bear or elk with a firearm only on private land. However, everyone 10 or older is required to have a license to hunt when participating in a bear or bobcat hunt with dogs. Additional youth hunter rules are available on the DNR web site.
Hunting Apprentice Program New for 2006
Earlier this year Governor Granholm signed legislation that creates an apprentice hunter program in Michigan. The program will allow apprentice hunters to hunt without the otherwise required hunter education course if accompanied and closely monitored by a licensed hunter 21 years or older. The purpose of this program is to allow people to try hunting under close control before deciding whether or not they want to take a hunter safety class. The apprentice program will serve to attract new participants to hunting and help conserve our natural resources.
Hunting is an important wildlife management tool and recreational opportunity. The DNR believes it is important to continue the hunting tradition with our youth as well as adults who may not have had an opportunity to hunt with a parent or grandparent while growing up. The apprentice license allows new hunters, including adults, to gain hunting experience with an adult mentor, for a limited time, without the requirement of hours of hunter education prior to the experience.
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Official Michigan Hunter Education Course About the Course and Hunting License Requirements
Welcome to the official online hunting course of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. In order to purchase a Michigan hunting license, all hunters born on or after January 1, 1960 need a Hunter Safety Certificate. If you are going out of state to hunt, most states will require your Hunter Safety Certificate, possibly even if you were born before January 1, 1960.
There are two study options:
Classroom courses; or
Independent study through this online course. Upon passing the online Pre-Certification Exam, you will be eligible to complete the skills/field portion of instruction and take a written examination without attending a classroom course. Simply print out your Pre-Certification Exam Certificate, and use it as your admission ticket! To register for your skills/field instruction and a written hunter safety certificate test, contact an instructor.
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Online Hunter Education Home Study Steps
1. Study the Michigan hunter education course material.
2. Take one or more Practice Tests—free of charge—to ensure you've mastered the course material. A different set of questions is presented each time you take the Practice Test.
3. Take the Pre-Certification Exam for $15, collected online. A score of 80% is required for passing the exam.
4. Upon passing the Pre-Certification Exam, print out your official Michigan Pre-Certification Exam Certificate, which is accepted by the state as proof of home study.
5. To complete your hunter safety education, contact an instructor listed for a basic hunter education course or a home study hunter education course. You will be required to complete the skills/field portion of the class and take a written examination.
Go to Hunter_Ed to begin the independent study course.
State, National Parks and Recreation Areas
Unless on a designated shooting range, or an area open to hunting during established seasons, or participating in an officially sanctioned field trial, all firearms in state parks and recreation areas must be unloaded in barrel and magazine.
Deer Hunting
Each fall, outdoor enthusiasts throughout Michigan and the Midwest start planning for the long-awaited deer hunting season.Michigan has more deer hunting than any other state in the country, or Canadian province. November 15 is the start of the deer hunting firearms season throughout the State of Michigan. The last day of the season is November 30.
Bow and arrow hunters season dates are October 1 to November 14, and December 1 to January 1, 2007.
The DNR has posted 98 deer management units that are available for hunting.
