Hunting In Hawaii:
What You Should Know

Hunting License Requirements

Hunting in Hawaii requires a hunting license whether you hunt on public or private land.

In order to purchase a Hawaii Hunting License, you must possess one of the following documents:

a Hawaii Hunter Education Wallet Card; or

a Letter of Exemption.

Hawaii Hunter Education Wallet Cards are issued to graduates of our basic course and you may use it to purchase a Hawaii Hunting License directly from a license agent.

Click here to purchase your Hawaii Hunting License online.

Letters of Exemption are issued free to those who have an out-of-state hunter education card or a Hawaii Hunting License issued prior to July 1, 1990. Click here for a Letter of Exemption mail request form.

If you're a nonresident without a hunter education card, contact your local hunter education office and find out how, when, and where to enroll in a hunter education course in your home state/province. Once you get your hunter education certificate, you need to fill out and mail in a completed Letter of Exemption form to our office. Once your form is processed and validated you will be able to purchase a Hawaii hunting license.

If you are a nonimmigrant alien and wish to temporarily import firearms and ammunition into the United States, please read this notice by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Unfortunately, many hunters don't plan or research their hunting trips before traveling to Hawaii and are turned away at the license agent's counter because they were unaware of this license requirement. As always, with any hunting trip, know before you go!

Game Animals In Hawaii

All of Hawaii's game animals are introduced species. There are six species of big game mammals and 14 species of game birds in the state.

Game mammals and what islands you find them on...

Species	Kauai	Oahu	Molokai	Lanai	Maui	Hawaii
Axis deer			X	X	X
Black-tailed deer	X
Mouflon sheep				X		X
Feral sheep						X
Feral goat	X	X	X		X	X
Feral pig	X	X	X		X	X

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A handsome Rio Grande gobbler on the island of Hawaii

Game birds and what islands you find them on...

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