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20 | Hunting Info: 402-471-0641 APPRENTICE HUNTER EDUCATION EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE The $5 Apprentice Hunter Education Exemption Certicate provides the novice hunter age 12 and older an opportunity to try hunting and receive training from an experienced hunter before completing Hunter Education. A hunter using this certicate must be accompanied* at all times while hunting. This certicate may be obtained once in each person's lifetime, expires on Dec. 31 and may be renewed once for a consecutive year. It may be purchased at OutdoorNebraska.org. *Accompanied is dened as: in the presence of a licensed, experienced hunter age 19 or older. There may be no more than two hunters using the certicate accompanied by the experienced hunter at any time and the experienced hunter must at all times be in unaided visual and verbal communication with the child under age 12 and/or the apprentice hunter ages 12 through 29. The experienced hunter must, if age 19-29, be certied in hunter education. FIREARM RESTRICTIONS • During the November rearm deer season, it is unlawful to hunt wildlife other than deer with a centerre rie or centerre handgun. EXCEPTION: This does not apply to a holder of a valid unlled rearm deer permit while hunting in the unit for which the permit was issued. It also does not apply to a bona de farmer or rancher who owns, leases, or resides upon such farm or ranch land or a member of the immediate family of such farmer or rancher while hunting on such farm or ranch land. It is illegal to have or carry a loaded shotgun in or on any vehicle on any highway or roadway. A shotgun is considered loaded if there is a shell or shells in the chamber, receiver or magazine. METHODS OF TAKE Upland Game and Migratory Game Birds: • Shotgun – Only 10 gauge or smaller may be used for all game birds. For waterfowl and other migratory game birds, including doves, shotguns must be plugged to limit shell capacity to no more than three shells in the chamber and magazine combined. No plug is required for upland game birds. No plug or gauge restriction exists for cottontail rabbits and squirrels. • Rie or Pistol – Illegal for all game birds • Archery – Legal for migratory game birds, rabbits, squirrels and upland game birds. Crossbow – Legal for rabbits, squirrels and upland game birds. NOT legal for migratory game birds. • Trapping – Legal for furbearers, cottontails, jackrabbits and squirrels during open seasons. NONTOXIC SHOT Nontoxic shot is required for all shotgun hunting on waterfowl production areas, national wildlife refuges and some state wildlife management areas, as posted. It is unlawful to use or possess shotgun shells loaded with or containing shot other than nontoxic shot while hunting, taking or attempting to take waterfowl. CHECKING TRAPS All traps set for furbearers must be checked as follows: Once every two calendar days: • Metal spring traps and snares afxed to one-way, slide-wire drowning sets. • Underwater snare sets that remain under water when fully extended. • Underwater body-gripping sets. Once every calendar day: • All others. Legal Nontoxic Shot Bismuth-tin Tungsten-matrix Iron (steel) Tungsten-polymer Iron-tungsten Tungsten-tin-iron Iron-tungsten-nickel Tungsten-tin-bismuth Tungsten-bronze Tungsten-tin-iron-nickel Tungsten-iron-copper-nickel Tungsten-iron-polymer