{"id":10654,"date":"2015-11-15T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2015-11-15T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T21:39:07","slug":"twra-announces-2015-16-gun-hunting-season-for-deer-opens-november-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2015\/11\/15\/twra-announces-2015-16-gun-hunting-season-for-deer-opens-november-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"TWRA announces 2015-16 Gun Hunting Season for Deer opens November 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46127\" title=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency.gif\" alt=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; One of Tennessee\u2019s long-standing annual outdoors traditions begins Saturday, November 21st with the opening of the 2015-16 gun hunting season for deer. Deer gun season has the permanent opening date of the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change for hunters in 2015-16 is the statewide bag limit for antlered deer is now two. The number includes those taken during the archery only, muzzleloader, and gun seasons.<!--more-->The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency divides the state into three deer hunting units, A, B and &amp; L. No more than one antlered deer may be taken per day toward the bag limit.<\/p>\n<p>For antlerless deer hunting in Units A and B during this season, refer to the list of hunts on page 26 of TWRA\u2019s 2015-16. The bag limit for antlerless deer in Unit L is three per day. An antlerless deer is defined as those deer with no antlers or deer with both antlers less than three inches in length.<\/p>\n<p>A Type 94 permit is required to harvest antlerless deer during this season on all non-quota hunts in Units A, B, &amp; L, except for holders of an Annual Sportsman, Lifetime Sportsman, Senior Citizen License Type 167 Permit, or landowners hunting under the landowner exemption. A Type 94 permit is required for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>TWRA personnel will be collecting data at selected check-in stations and deer processors across the state on opening day. Antlered bucks will be measured and aged for management purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone born on or after January 1st, 1969 is required to carry proof of satisfactory completion of a hunter education class or be in possession of the Apprentice Hunting License (along with other required licenses) while hunting any species in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Tennessee\u2019s 2015-16 deer hunting seasons, refer to the 2015-16 Tennessee Hunting and Trapping Guide available at all license agents, TWRA regional offices in Jackson, Nashville, Crossville, and Morristown or on the TWRA website at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnwildlife.org\" >www.tnwildlife.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; One of Tennessee\u2019s long-standing annual outdoors traditions begins Saturday, November 21st with the opening of the 2015-16 gun hunting season for deer. Deer gun season has the permanent opening date of the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving. The biggest change for hunters in 2015-16 is the statewide bag limit for antlered deer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3110,3861,3608,8522,722,5593,5471,284,261,2777,608,973],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-archery","tag-crossville-tn","tag-deer-gun-hunting-season","tag-deer-hunting-season","tag-jackson-tn","tag-morristown-tn","tag-muzzleloader","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-hunting-and-trapping-guide","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10655,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}