How does a landowner check in a bird w/o a license? I have not been able to find out if a tag needs to be created and attached or not. Doesn't look like it.


I am taking the landowner's son for youth day on their property. Just want to know what and how to do this in case things work out as we are hoping.

Here's whats on the VDGIF website:

Resident or non-resident landowners, their spouses, their children and grandchildren and the spouses of such children and grandchildren, or the landowner’s parents, resident or nonresident, do not need a license to hunt, trap or fish within the boundaries of their own lands and inland waters.

Thanks

When you call to check in the gobbler you are asked if you are exempt from a tag and then in one of the options you select landowner. They will still give you a confirmation number you have to write down.

(My experience with this is only regarding deer, but I'm assuming turkeys are about the same)

I'm not sure about a "temporary kill tag". I am assuming you don't need one.

Bird , I think you can call it in. I belive if the boy /girl is under 12 or maybe 16 they don't need a license. I might be wrong. I know when Zach , my son killed his deer this past season , we just took it to a checking station and the game department filled out the ticket and give it to us.
Tim

Good Luck to yall.

It's lQQking like rain here.

How long has this been in effect? I've been buying out of state permits to hunt a couple of days on my Dad's property in Bath Co. I guess it could pay to read the fine print of the laws and not just the dates.

Freddy, How do you temporarily kill game??? Is there some new load being developed similar to catch and release fishing?

Charlie... the kill is not temporary... the tag is!!! haha!

The landowner law has been in effect for a long, long time...

Resident or non resident landowners , their spouses , their children and grandchildren and the spouses od such children and grandchildren , or the landowners parents , resident or non-resident , do not need a license to hunt trap or fish within the boundries of their own land . This is in the hunting handbook that you get when you buy your license .
My business is a licensed check station and when the bird is checked in there is a place on the check card for landowners . The same applies to call in checking .

That is right -- just tell them you are exempt. I hunt my own land in VA and they have always given me a copy of the check card at the check station. I've never tried to phone in a Spring Gobbler but I assume it would be the same process used for deer in the Fall where they give you a confirmation number.

Landowners are exempt from tagging game they take on their own property, and it can be phoned in or taken to a check station.
If the young man does get a turkey, let him take it to a check station to check it in. I remember checking in my first tom and it was quite a feeling carrying that bird in among a bunch of adults. He too will remember that for a long time.

barry

Great info. Thanks fellas.