19th Airlift Wing Mission – Airmen – Partners Unrivaled Global Reach for America … ALWAYS! Fall Hunting Brief 31 Aug 15

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INTRODUCTION  James Popham, Natural Resources Manager   If you want to be on my hunter distribution list please send me an .  Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Rules Apply

Mission – Airmen – Partners GOALS OF HUNTING PROGRAM  Maintain a healthy deer population that doesn’t present a hazard to the mission  Supports BASH program  Provides recreation for hunters  Reduces need for depredation hunts  Reduces tick population  Reduces deer/car collisions  Population goal is 250 deer

Mission – Airmen – Partners BUCK SHOT ON LRAFB LRAFB 6 Oct 2007 TSgt Ackett’s 8-Point

Mission – Airmen – Partners HUNTER SAFETY  You  You are responsible for your actions while hunting on base safety  Think & practice safety  Remember just one mistake could be fatal and ruin the privilege of hunting on base for everybody

Mission – Airmen – Partners PREVENT HUNTING MISHAPS  Take a hunter’s safety course --  Wear blaze orange  Assume firearms are loaded  Be sure of your target  If in doubt do not shoot  Lock up your guns  Separate guns and ammo Picture from AGFC website

Mission – Airmen – Partners HUNTER ORANGE  Do not take your blaze orange off during deer season once you’re in the stand. Hunter orange is required even inside a box stand.  Reference: gulations.aspx#Hunter Orange Requirements

Mission – Airmen – Partners  Active duty/dependents  DoD employees  DoD retirees  Guests of all the above  Guests must be in general vicinity (same hunting area)  Member is allowed and responsible for one guest WHO CAN HUNT AT LRAFB ?

Mission – Airmen – Partners WHAT DO YOU NEED TO HUNT AT LRAFB ?  A copy of the base hunting rules and map  Arkansas hunting license  A base hunting permit  Vehicle parking permit card  Read Hunting Rules/Safety briefing  All the above can be obtained at  Born after 1968 – hunter safety course

Mission – Airmen – Partners BASE HUNTING PERMITS  $40 E-7 and above and guests; $20 E-6 and below and civilian equivalent. Dependents pay the same price of their sponsor. All guests pay $10.

Mission – Airmen – Partners LRAFB 10 Oct Point SSgt Lewis BUCK SHOT ON LRAFB

Mission – Airmen – Partners WHAT WEAPONS CAN I USE ON LRAFB ? NO  Shotgun w/slugs (NO Buckshot)  Muzzleloader  Archery (bow or crossbow) not  Rifles and handguns are not authorized

Mission – Airmen – Partners WHAT CAN I HUNT ON LRAFB ?  Any game in season for our zone  Deer (no dogs allowed)  Rabbit (no dogs allowed)  Squirrel/quail (dogs are allowed if controlled)  No hunting at night

Mission – Airmen – Partners WHAT CAN I HUNT ON LRAFB ?  Pay attention to zones and bag limits  Legal buck – Three Point Rule: both antlers shorter than 2 inches (button bucks) or have 3 or more points on one side of rack  Youths 6 – 15 years of age may take any buck without regard for antler restrictions  Turkey zone 7A – no fall turkey season  References: AGFC Hunting Regulations on-line.

Mission – Airmen – Partners WHAT CAN I HUNT ON LRAFB ?  Must kill and check a doe before first buck  Can’t check first doe and buck together  Doe before buck rule reduces number of smaller bucks breeding with less does  This should lead to bigger bucks  Helps us reduce the number of deer

Mission – Airmen – Partners UNWANTED ANIMALS  Coyotes  Feral Hogs  Kill on sight

Mission – Airmen – Partners FERAL HOGS  Serious BASH and ecological issue  All will be shot or, trapped and then killed  If you’re hunting please kill all hogs you see  No live hogs will be brought on base or taken off base  Dead hogs disposed of immediately to avoid attracting vultures  Report sightings and killings to Natural Resources Manager,

Mission – Airmen – Partners GOOD MANAGEMENT  DO NOT SHOOT BUTTON BUCKS or FAWNS WITH SPOTS or DOES with FAWNS WITH SPOTS  DO NOT SHOOT LITTLE DOES  They might be a button buck

Mission – Airmen – Partners BUCK SHOT ON LRAFB LRAFB Nov Point SSgt Horka

Mission – Airmen – Partners BAG LIMIT – Deer Zone 10  Zone Limit: Four deer, no more than two legal bucks. No more than two legal bucks or up to four does may be taken with archery tackle.  No more than two legal bucks and up to two does may be taken during muzzleloader and modern gun seasons combined.  Bow hunters may harvest deer according to archery limits during open firearms season, but must wear hunter orange.

Mission – Airmen – Partners SIGN-IN PROCEDURES  All hunters must sign-in and out each hunting session at law enforcement desk, bldg 481  Hunting day split into morning and afternoon hunts. No sign-in before 0430  After 1200 all must sign-out afternoon sign-in starts at 1300  Hunters will not “sign-in” to more than one area unless small game hunting

Mission – Airmen – Partners SIGN-IN PROCEDURES CONT  First-come-first-serve basis  Parents/children under 16 count as one hunter  Both must sign-in and hunt together  All hunters in a party must sign-individually

Mission – Airmen – Partners BIG BUCK SHOT ON LRAFB LRAFB Dec 2002 It scored 168 3/8 points Boone & Crockett and took first place for Pulaski County at the Big Buck Classic that year. MSgt Ralph Hill

Mission – Airmen – Partners ON-BASE HUNTING AREAS  When you sign-in at Bldg 481 check to see which areas are closed before each hunt  No gun hunting in archery only areas  No hunting within 200 yards of another hunter  Small game hunting is allowed in all gun areas from 1 Sep to 30 Sep and 1 Dec to 28 Feb except during deer gun season.

Mission – Airmen – Partners HUNTING AREAS

Mission – Airmen – Partners ON-BASE HUNTING AREAS CONT.  Area 6 – due to runway construction this area is limited for hunting. The northern portion has been changed to bow only. There is no hunting within 200 ft of the “East-West” road.  Watch for “no personnel beyond this point” signs in Area 17  If caught in a closed or off-limits area your hunting privileges will be revoked

Mission – Airmen – Partners BIG BUCK SHOT ON LRAFB LRAFB Nov 2002 TSgt Duanne Pacquette

Mission – Airmen – Partners LEGAL HUNTING TIMES  Allowed in woods one hour prior to official sunrise and one hour after official sunset  No movement from (30 minutes before sunrise) until 0900 and from 1700 until (30 minutes after sunset) except to retrieve game

Mission – Airmen – Partners VEHICLES  No ATV’s or driving off road  Obey all no POV signs and never block any road with your vehicle

Mission – Airmen – Partners STANDS  No permanent stands  No spikes, nails or screws  Must have owner’s name, phone number, and date placed in woods at eye level  Any stand found without this info will be removed  Only two stands per hunter may be left in the woods

Mission – Airmen – Partners STANDS CONT.  Hunters are not allowed to hang stands until 1 Aug  All scouting, stand prep, and stand placement must be completed by 1 Nov  No scouting during any deer gun season

Mission – Airmen – Partners AIRFIELD  Never cross or touch electric fence. If your wounded deer goes inside this area contact Base Ops ( ) and Security Forces ( )  Violators will lose hunting privileges.

Mission – Airmen – Partners WOUNDED DEER  You may track wounded deer up to one hour after sunset with a weapon.  After one hour you must come out of the woods to store your weapon in your car, a friend’s house or SF armory.  If caught in the woods 1 hr after sunset with a weapon it will be considered hunting at night.

Mission – Airmen – Partners BIG BUCK SHOT ON LRAFB LRAFB Oct Points SrA Long

Mission – Airmen – Partners MISCELLANEOUS RULES  Stay out of peoples yards when hunting areas 21, 22, and 25  All deer or turkeys killed on base must be checked in at the Law Enforcement desk within 4 hours of the kill  Do not check-in deer or turkey from off-base

Mission – Airmen – Partners CHECKING DEER Call It In and Log It  Tag your deer before you move it  Check your deer at the SFS Front Desk before moving it to base housing or off base  Check your deer with AGFC also

Mission – Airmen – Partners HUNTING SAFETY orange  Wear your hunter orange  Identify your target  Never shoot at movement  If hunting from the ground, protect your back  All deer hunters using guns must hunt from an elevated stand at least 10 feet off the ground except during youth hunts

Mission – Airmen – Partners ORANGE HUNTER ORANGE WORKS  Human's View... and... Deer's View. Deer cannot tell red or orange from green.  See 2 Hunters??

Mission – Airmen – Partners BUCK SHOT ON LRAFB LRAFB Oct Points Carl Freeney

Mission – Airmen – Partners HUNTING SAFETY  Let other hunters know your position  No weapons will be shot or fired within 50 yards of any fence, road, boundary, or building  In areas 21, 22 and 25 you must hunt a minimum of 100 yards from tree line (housing area)  In area 23 you must hunt no closer than 100 yards north of Arnold Dr Elementary School

Mission – Airmen – Partners HUNTING SAFETY  In area 24 no weapons will be shot or fired within 100 yards of the Boy Scout area, nature trail, or Fam Camp  Weapons will not be shot within 1,250 feet of munitions storage area or operational storage area (area’s 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 19 and 20)

Mission – Airmen – Partners BAITING  Baiting/feeding deer is authorized in all hunting areas, from 1 Aug until 15 Jan  Baiting/feeding in areas 18A and 18B may only be conducted in the northern most point of shooting lanes to minimize wildlife proximity to the assault zone and approach end of Runway 25  Hunting turkey over bait is illegal

Mission – Airmen – Partners HOME ON LEAVE  Military personnel on leave from an overseas duty station may hunt on-base for free. All they need is a copy of their leave orders and military ID.

Mission – Airmen – Partners SPRING TURKEY SEASON  Spring turkey season has a different map of hunting areas and different rules. A new briefing is required for that season.

Mission – Airmen – Partners HUNTER SAFETY  You are responsible for your actions while hunting on base  Practice safety, safety, safety  Remember, just one mistake could be fatal and could ruin the privilege of hunting on base for everybody

Mission – Airmen – Partners LEAVE NO TRACE  Please don’t litter  Please pick up your shell cases and other litter  Leave the woods just as nice as you found them  Carry a small trash bag with you in the woods  If illegal dumping is found please call Lynn Shaw at

Mission – Airmen – Partners MENTORING PROGRAM  If you want help to learn how to hunt send me an and I’ll try to match you up with a mentor.  Mentors – send me an with your name, phone number, and what you want to help with, i.e., deer, turkey, or both.

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