Location: Unit Specified on Permit
Spring Turkey - Archery Only
- Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
- Legal Equipment: Recurve or compound bows and crossbows.
- Permit Limit: One turkey with a visible beard per permit or game tag.
- Bag Limit: One turkey with a visible beard per permit or game tag.
- Dogs may not be used in spring season.
Resident hunters may obtain a spring turkey permit – valid for one turkey with a visible beard – in Units 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6. Spring turkey permits for Unit 4 are available only by lottery draw.
Non-resident hunters may obtain a spring turkey permit by lottery draw for Unit 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6. Non-resident permits are only valid in the Unit indicated. The application period is 01/13/26 – 02/13/26. Any leftover non-resident spring turkey permits will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis on a date set after the drawing is completed and the public is notified of the date.
There will be no additional game tags (valid for a second turkey) available in 2026 for resident or non-resident hunters.
Location: Unit Specified on Permit
Spring Turkey - Youth/Disabled; open to any person having a valid turkey permit who is age 17 or younger, while under the immediate supervision of an adult who is age 18 or older and any person with a disability as defined in K.S.A. 8-1,124.
Resident hunters may obtain a spring turkey permit – valid for one turkey with a visible beard – in Units 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6. Spring turkey permits for Unit 4 are available only by lottery draw.
Non-resident hunters may obtain a spring turkey permit by lottery draw for Unit 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6. Non-resident permits are only valid in the Unit indicated. The application period is 01/13/26 – 02/13/26. Any leftover non-resident spring turkey permits will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis on a date set after the drawing is completed and the public is notified of the date.
There will be no additional game tags (valid for a second turkey) available in 2026 for resident or non-resident hunters.
Location: Posted Areas
Posted Areas Include
Inside city parks on the Neosho River in Chetopa and Burlington, Neosho River at Iola downstream from dam to city limits, Marais des Cygnes River below Osawatomie Dam downstream to posted boundary, Marais des Cygnes River from the upstream boundary of the Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area downstream to the Kansas-Missouri border, and the Browning Oxbow Lake of the Missouri River.
Paddlefish Snagging Regulation
Location: Statewide
Species: Raccoon, opossum
Furharvester license required.
Hunting and trapping by methods that are legal during the general furbearer season are allowed, except that only traps allowed during the extended season are cage or box traps and dog-proof (DP) foot encapsulating traps. Artificial light is prohibited except as permitted for taking treed or trapped furbearers during the general season.
Location: Statewide
Season Dates (statewide): All year
Season Limit: No limit
There is no closed season for trapping or hunting coyotes. Motor vehicles and radios in vehicles may be used to hunt coyotes only. Furharvester license is required to trap and sell; hunting license is required to hunt and sell.
Location: Statewide
(Eurasian collared and ringed turtle doves)
- Area open: Statewide
- Season: Year-round
- Daily bag limit: There is no limit on Eurasian collared or ringed turtle doves, but any taken during the migratory dove season in addition to the mourning and white-winged dove daily bag must have a fully-feathered wing attached while being transported.
Location: Statewide
- Cottontail & Jackrabbit
- Regular: All year
- Area Open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 10
- Possession limit: 30
