License Requirements
    Residents and Nonresidents: Annual hunting license, (see page 12 "Licenses & Permits" of your 2011-2012 Oklahoma Hunting Guide or click here) or proof of exemptions. In addition, all hunters, unless otherwise exempt, must carry afield the HIP permit (see page 18 "Licenses & Permits" of your 2011-2012 Oklahoma Hunting Guide or click here)

Public Lands
Seasons on public lands may vary from statewide seasons. Consult public lands section beginning on page 44 of your 2011-2012 Oklahoma Hunting Guide.

Shooting Hours
    One-half hour before official sunrise to official sunset, unless otherwise provided.

Legal Means of Taking
    Shotgun (conventional or muzzleloading), archery equipment, legal raptors and as otherwise provided under General Hunting Regulations.

• With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel gun, shotgun slug, shotgun larger than a 10 gauge, punt gun, battery gun, machine gun, fishhook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying substance.
• With a shotgun capable of holding more than three shells, in the magazine and chamber combined, unless otherwise provided.
• From or by means, aid, or use of a sink box (a low floating device, having a depression affording the hunter means of concealment beneath the surface of the water.)
• From or with the aid or use of a vehicle or other motor-driven land conveyance, or any aircraft, except that paraplegics and single or double amputees of the legs may take from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor-driven land conveyance. Paraplegic means an individual, afflicted with paralysis of the lower half of the body with involvement of both legs usually due to disease of or injury to the spinal cord.
• From or by means of any motor boat or sail boat unless the motor has been completely shut off and / or the sail furled, and its progress therefrom has ceased.
• By the use or aid of live decoys. All live, tame or captive ducks and geese shall be removed for a period of 10 consecutive days prior to hunting, and confined within an enclosure which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally conceals such tame birds from the sight of migratory waterfowl.
• Using records or tapes of migratory bird calls, or sounds or electronically amplified imitations of bird calls, unless otherwise provided.
• By driving, rallying, or chasing birds with any motorized conveyance or any sail boat to put them in range of the hunter.
• By the aid of baiting on or over any baited areas where a person knows or reasonably should know that the area is or has been baited. A baited area is considered to be baited for 10 days after complete removal of any bait. Baiting includes placing, exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering of salt, grain, or other feed that could serve as a lure or attractant for migratory game birds to, on, or over areas where hunters are attempting to take them. Agriculture areas must be prepared in accordance with official recommendations to be legally hunted. It is a separate offense to place or direct placement of bait on or adjacent to an area that causes, induces, or allows another to hunt by the aid of bait on or over a baited area. Hunters are responsible for insuring that an area has not been baited and should verify its legality prior to hunting.

Field Possession Limit
    No person shall possess more than one daily bag limit, tagged or not tagged, while in the field or while returning from the field to one's vehicle, hunting camp, home, etc.

Wanton Waste
    All downed migratory game birds shall be retrieved, if possible, and retained in the custody of the hunter in the field.

Field Tagging
    No person shall give, put or leave any migratory game birds at any place or in the custody of another person unless the birds are tagged by the hunter with the hunter's name, signature and address, total number of birds involved by species and the dates such birds were killed.
    Tagging is required if the birds are being transported by another person for the hunter, or if the birds have been left for cleaning, storage (including temporary storage), shipment, or taxidermy services.

Possession of Live Birds
    Wounded birds shall be immediately killed and included in the daily limit.

Field Dressing
    No person shall completely field dress any migratory game bird (except doves and band-tailed pigeons) and then transport the birds from the field. The head or one fully feathered wing must remain attached to all such birds while being transported from the field to one's home or to a migratory bird preservation facility.

Shipment
    No person shall ship migratory game birds unless the package is marked on the outside with the name and address of the person sending the birds, the name and address of the person to whom the birds are being sent, and the number of birds, by species, contained in the package.

Importation
    For information regarding the importation of migratory birds killed in another country, hunters should consult 50 CFR 20.61 through 20.66. One fully feathered wing must remain attached to all migratory game birds being transported between the port of entry and one's home or to a migratory bird preservation facility. No person shall import migratory game birds killed in any foreign country except Canada, unless such birds are dressed (except as required in 20.63), drawn, and the head and feet are removed. No person shall import migratory game birds belonging to another person.

Dual Violation
    Violations of state migratory game bird regulations are also violations of federal regulations.

Hunting in Two States
    A hunter who hunts in two states having separate daily limits, may not exceed the largest number of birds that can be taken in one of the states in which they take birds.

Additional Information
    For a more complete summary of federal regulations, visit http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/.

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Daily Limit
    15 daily, 30 in possession after first day combined. The limit may consist of any combination (aggregate) of mourning, white-winged and fully dressed Eurasian collared doves (those without a head or fully feathered wing naturally attached to the carcass).
    However, there is no bag limit on Eurasian collared doves provided that the head or one fully feathered wing remain naturally attached to the carcass of all such birds while being transported to their final destination.

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Rail (Sora & Virginia)