Welcome to 2024-25 Indiana Hunting
Rule & Regulation Changes
In 2024, the Indiana state legislature passed a law allowing the use of drones to locate and recover legally taken wild animals. Catastrophically disabled veterans who are residents of Indiana also now have four free hunting days. See General Information for more information on use of drones. For information regarding catastrophically disabled veterans and their free hunting days, see License Information. The deer license bundle allows an individual to harvest up to three deer of which only two can be antlerless and one antlered (see Deer Regulations). River otter trapping is now allowed statewide for the 2024-2025 season (Furbearer Trapping).
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To Hunters & Trappers in the Hoosier State
Welcome to the 2024-2025 Indiana DNR Hunting & Trapping Guide. We hope you find it helpful as you prepare for the upcoming hunting and trapping seasons.
Any corrections or updates to information published in this guide will be made to the online version found at hunting.IN.gov.
This guide provides a summary of Indiana hunting and trapping regulations. If you need complete versions of Indiana rules and regulations for hunting and trapping, they can be found in Indiana Code, Title 14, Article 22 (iga.IN.gov) or in Indiana Administrative Code, Title 312, Article 9, (IN.gov/legislative/iac).
Information in the guide includes season dates, bag limits, license requirements and costs, legal hunting hours, approved hunting equipment, and more. Articles found within this guide are written by Indiana DNR staff who are experts in their work.
All funds made from selling Indiana hunting and fishing licenses go directly back to conservation. Your license funds are used for wildlife management and research, habitat management and restoration, land acquisition, public access, shooting ranges, fish stocking, DNR law enforcement, and more. We thank all hunters, anglers, trappers, and recreational shooters in Indiana for their continued support of the Division of Fish & Wildlife. The funding stream you provide helps make conservation of Indiana’s natural resources a success.
Finally, good luck this hunting and trapping season. We hope it’s your best one yet.
