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OutdoorNebraska.org | 11 HUNTING AREA Permits are valid statewide, except on state and federal sanctuaries or refuges, unless otherwise authorized. UNLAWFUL METHODS Use of the following is unlawful: • Electronic calls • Visible laser or light-projecting sights • Live decoys • Baiting (placing grain or other feed to entice turkeys) TAGGING Immediately after a turkey is taken, the hunter must punch or notch the permit tag showing the date the bird was taken. This automatically cancels the permit tag. This permit must be kept with the permit holder and/or turkey at all times. When the turkey is not with the permit holder, the entire permit must be attached to the turkey. The mobile turkey permit allows a hunter to cancel the permit once a turkey is harvested. If a hunter has a mobile permit, a turkey may be left unaccompanied by the hunter only if a document bearing the hunter's name, permit number and time and date of permit cancellation is kept with the carcass. POSSESSION Only the successful permit holder may possess all or part of a turkey. Anyone may receive as a gift any part of the turkey if a statement of such gift is available to inspect. The statement must include: hunter's name, telephone number and permit number; species and quantity of each; donor's signature; recipient's name; and date of transfer. TRANSPORTATION It is unlawful to possess any turkey unless the legs, thighs, and breast remain together until the bird is consumed or the bird arrives at the permanent abode of the possessor. The breast meat may be removed from the bone but must remain as two entire halves. Birds taken in the spring must have proof of sex consisting of: 1) the legs with spurs naturally attached; 2) the beard naturally attached to the breast; or 3) the detached beard with at least ¼-inch of skin remaining at the attachment site and kept together with the leg, thighs and breast. YOUTH MENTOR REQUIREMENTS Youth under age 12 and anyone using an Apprentice Hunter Education Exemption Certificate must be accompanied while turkey hunting. The accompanying person must: 1) be a licensed hunter age 19 or older; 2) have successfully completed hunter education if he or she is between the ages of 19 and 29; 3) not accompany more than two holders of an exemption certificate at one time; and 4) be at all times in unaided visual and verbal communication with the hunter/ hunters he or she is accompanying. HUNTING TURKEYS AND BAITING A baited area may not be established from 10 days before the opening of any big game or turkey season and throughout those entire seasons for the purposes of taking big game or turkey. An area within 200 yards of bait is considered baited and to hunt within that area is prohibited. To be legal, both the hunter and the animal must be outside a baited area.

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