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Triple Trophy Award available to deer hunters

Triple Trophy Award available to deer hunters

By Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

With deer season ending, there’s still a reward for those lucky and skilled enough to have hit the trifecta of deer hunting.

Hunters who qualify for the Triple Trophy Award must, within a single deer season, take at least one deer by each of the three legal hunting methods – modern firearms, muzzleloading rifle or pistol, and archery/crossbow tackle.

Qualifying hunters receive certificates suitable for framing and a patch to place on their hunting vest or jacket. Applications for the Game and Fish Commission’s Triple Trophy Award should be submitted online by April 10, 2019.

The program began in the mid-1980s to encourage primitive weapons hunting. It was intended to increase the harvest of antlerless deer, and to spread out hunting pressure and reduce crowding during modern gun season.

In addition to more liberal seasons, hunters using archery tackle and muzzleloaders are more apt to harvest antlerless deer because of the increased difficulty of using those weapons.

Protecting does was essential decades ago, while managers were trying to increase the total number of deer in the state. Now that deer are plentiful, the management goal must shift to keeping the herd at healthy levels for the habitat available.

Application requests are available by calling (501)223-6351 or online.

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