When is raccoon season

Pistols, revolvers, and rifles propelling a single projectile at one discharge. Additional Info. Additional Allowed Methods Feb. Artificial light Night vision equipment Infrared or thermal imagery equipment. Arrows containing any drug, poison, chemical, or explosive. Motor driven conveyances may not be used to take, drive, or molest wildlife. You may not take wildlife from or across a public roadway with a firearm, bow, or crossbow.

Traps must have smooth or rubber jaws only. Colony traps with openings no greater than 6 inches in height and 6 inches wide. Dogs may not be used for aquatic furbearers beaver, muskrat, mink, otter. Traps may not be set in paths made or used by people or domestic animals.

If you have more than one bobcat to report, you will have the opportunity to report additional animals at the end of the session. If you plan to take the bobcat to a taxidermist, you must securely attach written documentation to the carcass that includes the full name of the hunter or trapper, date of kill, and the harvest confirmation number.

Bobcats legally killed by landowners outside the season are not required to be reported using the electronic harvest reporting system. If you plan to take a bobcat to a taxidermist that does not require reporting, you must securely attach the same information described above except for the confirmation number and a description of how the bobcat was legally obtained.

Raw bobcat pelts and unskinned carcasses that are bought, sold, bartered, traded, solicited for purchase, or transported out of state must also have a CITES tag affixed to each pelt by the trapper or hunter who harvested the animal.

No CITES tag is needed to have a bobcat mounted by a Virginia taxidermist or to ship a bobcat pelt out-of-state for tanning purposes unless required by the state where the tannery is located. Every effort will be made to provide CITES tags as quickly as possible, but we may not be able to accommodate short notice requests received on weekends or after hours.

Nonresident hunters or trappers who need to leave the state before they are able to secure a CITES tag should plan to leave the bobcat pelt or carcass in the care of someone in Virginia until a tag can be attached. Tags ordered from our Customer Service Center will be mailed directly to the hunter or trapper, along with instructions for tagging.

Continuous open season except on National Forest lands and Department lands. Coyote hunting on National Forest lands and Department lands is permitted from September 1 through March 10 and during the spring turkey season. Coyotes may also be hunted on Department lands during the spring squirrel season unless otherwise posted. Coyote bounties are not administered by DWR. Counties have the option of establishing their own coyote bounty system. For more information, hunters and trappers should contact their County Administrator or County Board of Supervisors.

Continuous closed season for hunting or trapping fisher. Please report verifiable sightings see below. If you have a trail camera photo of this animal, we would like to hear from you. The fisher Pekania pennanti once occurred in the western mountains of our state, but populations were likely extinct by the s. After a long absence, fishers appear to be reestablishing themselves as part of our fauna.

Fishers are members of the Mustelid or weasel family. They are stocky animals with an elongated body and relatively short legs. Adult fishers are about the size of a fox, typically weighing 4 to 12 pounds and measuring 30 to 47 inches from the nose to the tip of the tail.

Their fur is dark brown and black. The face and shoulders often have a golden or silver sheen. The underside may have patches of white or cream colored fur. Deer Check-in. Public Hunt Area Check-in. Print Email a Friend. Season Dates statewide : Nov. Season Dates statewide : March 1-Nov. Furbearers cannot be killed or taken during the running season.