Managed Area Bag Limit ?

[student]

I am hunting in two different managed areas this year. I will be buying three different tags/licenses (Archery, Muzzleloader, and Rifle). I am only allowed two deer correct? Either a buck and an antlerless or two antlerless, right? If I shoot a buck with my bow, I still need to buy a rifle license even if all I'm able to shoot is an antlerless with my bonus tag? Thanks for the clarification.

[DaMoose]

You are correct, however you would not need to buy a bunus tag, to shoot an anterless deer with your rifle. You are allowed to use both your archery and your firearm or muzzleloader tag for anterless deer.

[ANYFISH2]

Correct, only two deer total. Correct on your combinations as well. And yes if your are hunting with a firearm during firearms season you need to buy a firearms license. In your senario you could tag a doe with either your regular firearms license or your bonus tag. Both would be valid, but you will end up eating one, or hunting a intensive harvest area to fill the other.

[student]

So right now all I have is my archery tag, no bonus tag yet. If a doe walks by my stand and I shoot it, I have to tag it with my either sex tag and unless I buy a bonus tag, I'm done archery hunting. Once I use my archery tag on a doe, I can't shoot a buck via archery?? Right?

[DaMoose]

correct

[96trigger]

Yep, if you plan on shooting a doe with your bow, you are better off buying the bonus tag and using that IF you want to keep hunting BUCKS with your bow. I usually do this and often times, end up eating the bonus tag at the end of the year, but it has kept me in the woods so its worth it.