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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.
UNLAWFUL METHODS
Using electronic calls, live decoys, visible laser or light-projecting sights, and baiting.
UNLAWFUL ACTS
• trespassing on private land; hunters must get permission to access private land.
• party hunting is illegal; every hunter must shoot his or her own game.
• hunting any game with a rifle within 200 yards of an inhabited dwelling or feedlot and
hunting with all other equipment within 100 yards, unless permission has been granted
by the owner or tenant.
• driving or disturbing game birds or game animals with or from any aircraft or boat
propelled by power or sail.
• harvesting or trapping any
game bird from a vehicle.
• wasting game.
• spotlighting from a vehicle or
vessel while in possession of a
firearm or bow and arrow.
• digging, cutting or destroying
natural or planted vegetation
on any state-owned or
controlled area.
• causing game birds or game
animals to depart from a game
reserve or game sanctuary.
• using electronically amplified
imitations of bird calls,
including records, tapes, compact discs, and digital audio files, to take game birds.
• selling or trading the meat of any game bird or game animal.
HUNTER SURVEY
At the end of each season, hunters are asked
to complete a survey used to estimate hunter
success and total harvest. Unlike the mandatory
electronic checking of harvested turkeys, this
survey is optional. Hunters who provide an email
address at the time of permit purchase will
receive an email invitation to participate in the
survey. Other hunters may participate by going
to OutdoorNebraska.gov and then searching for
"Turkey Hunter Survey." It is important when
buying permits online that hunters update their
email address if it has changed since they last
purchased a permit. Survey results are posted at
OutdoorNebraska.gov.
