
MOUNTAIN DUCK FREE LICENSE THROTTLING LICENSE
Residents under the age of 16 are not required to have a license to trap when accompanied by any person 18 years of age or older who possesses a valid Virginia trapping license.All hunters under the age of 12 may not hunt unless accompanied and directly supervised by a licensed adult. Nonresident hunters under the age of 12 need a hunting license but do not need hunter education to purchase one. Resident hunters under the age of 12 are not required to have a hunting license or hunter education.Residents, 65 years of age and over, do not need a license to hunt or trap on private property in their county or city of residence.Persons who lease property and do not permanently reside there are not exempt from license requirements. Tenants, renters, or lessees on lands they reside on, are not required to have a license, but must have the written permission of the landowner.

Resident or nonresident 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 (on inland waters) within the boundaries of their own lands.All seasons, bag limits, and harvest reporting requirements apply.

Where exempt, the exemption means the individual is exempt from the basic hunting license bear license, deer/turkey license, archery license muzzleloading license trapping license and Virginia Migratory Waterfowl Conservation Stamp.

We recommend the electronic carrying of licenses through the use of our app. Any person who is required to carry certain hunting, trapping, or fishing licenses or a hunter education certificate on their person can meet the requirement by carrying an electronic copy of the relevant license or certificate. Every person who is required to have a license must carry such license and shall show the license immediately upon request of any officer whose duty it is to enforce the game and inland fish laws, or upon the demand of any owner or lessee, or any employee or representative of such owner or lessee, upon whose land or water such person may be hunting, trapping, or fishing.
