{"id":25866,"date":"2018-12-24T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=25866"},"modified":"2018-12-20T21:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T02:02:03","slug":"firearms-season-for-deer-reopens-jan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/12\/24\/firearms-season-for-deer-reopens-jan-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Firearms Season for Deer Reopens Jan. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Hunters in Region B Have Another Opportunity for Deer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1614\/24468041969_a3a32bcd1a.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of deer in snow\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> announced the winter portion of the firearm deer hunting season opens Jan. 4, 2019, in Deer Management <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/deer-seasons-regulations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Region B<\/a>, which includes all of the state except the westernmost counties. Hunters with a valid hunting license may use firearms to harvest sika and white-tailed deer during this season.<\/p>\n<p>The season is open Jan. 4 and 5, 2019 in all Region B counties and Jan. 6, 2019 \u2013 on private lands only \u2013 in Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Charles, Frederick, Harford, Kent, Montgomery, Queen Anne\u2019s, Somerset, St. Mary\u2019s, Washington (Zone 1), and Worcester counties. On Jan. 6, 2019, shooting hours end at 10:30 a.m. in Kent and Montgomery counties.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe late firearms season is popular with many hunters as it provides another opportunity to hunt after the holidays,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/a>\u00a0Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cThe resulting deer harvest helps us meet our deer population objectives in Region B.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunters are encouraged to consult the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Guide to Hunting and Trapping<\/a>\u00a0for recent changes to\u00a0bag limits, regulations and registration procedures.\u00a0During firearms season, Maryland requires deer hunters and their companions to wear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/FO_Requirements.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daylight fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink<\/a>\u00a0in one of the following manners: a cap of solid fluorescent daylight orange or pink; a vest or jacket containing back and front panels of at least 250 square inches of fluorescent daylight orange or pink; or\u00a0an outer garment of camouflage daylight fluorescent orange or pink worn above the waist and containing at least 50 percent daylight fluorescent color.<\/p>\n<p>Hunters should carefully inspect all tree-stands and always wear a full-body safety harness while climbing in or out and while in the stand. The department strongly recommends using a sliding knot, commonly known as a prussic knot, attached to a line that is secured above the stand that allows the hunter to be safely tethered to the tree as soon as they leave the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland hunters are encouraged to donate any extra deer they may harvest to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/fhfh.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry<\/a>. New this year, hunters may claim a tax credit of up to $50 for each legally harvested deer that is processed and donated to a nonprofit food sharing program. The maximum credit in any one tax year is $200 per hunter. The approved form to claim this credit is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Documents\/Feed-the-Hungry-Form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunters in Region B Have Another Opportunity for Deer The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the winter portion of the firearm deer hunting season opens Jan. 4, 2019, in Deer Management Region B, which includes all of the state except the westernmost counties. Hunters with a valid hunting license may use firearms to harvest sika<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/12\/24\/firearms-season-for-deer-reopens-jan-4\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3172,13],"tags":[3059,2945],"class_list":["post-25866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-deer","tag-paul-peditto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25871,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25866\/revisions\/25871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}