I recently bought 15 acres in SE Indiana for deer hunting. I live in SW Ohio. My question is this: The rule for Indiana DNR says that you must be a resident for atleast 60 days before you can buy a resident license. I have had the property for about four months now and I am there every single weekend and a few days during the week either fishing, working on/checking my food plot, and checking trail cams... However, I still live in my home in SW Ohio. Can I buy a Indiana resident tag because I have ownedthe property for well over 60 days? Or Do I literally have to sleep there to be considered a resident lol? There is a double wide trailer on the property that I fixed up, but My question is could I buy a resident license or would I have to actually move in to the trailer and have it documented. I tried getting info from the DNR but the number I called would not put me through to an actual person to ask.. Anyone know?
I appreciate any knowledge you could give me?

Adam Bowman
Southwest Ohio/Southeast Indiana

Since you own the ground dont need a license.

Indiana huntinr regulations . http://www.state.in.us/dnr/files/fw-hg_generalinfo.pdf Non resident landowners is on page 3.

Ya, it does not matter where you live. The way the state works it if you own the land you don't need a licence. Just go hunt. If you kill one you just get a piece of paper and record the necessary info like name, address, date of kill, method of take. Then take it to a check station. I owned land and bought resident tags for 5 years there before someone pointed that out to me.

Landowner tags in Indiana are just a legal way to poach, I am against them and my family even owns land. Good luck

Alright thanks for the information everyone, thats good news.. Beehunter--I'm a little confused, are you saying that I would be poaching by hunting on the land I specifically bought to deer hunt on?

Indiana sounds damn reasonable about letting landowners hunt their own ground.

I know in IL you need to own I think 80 acres to get landowner tags and qualify as a "landowner" 15 acres wouldn't cut it here.

As far as non/res vs res, since you live in Ohio, I would say you'll never qualify as a resident of IN, only option is as said above.....if you'll qualify for landowner tags.

Good Luck.

40 acres is the requirement in Illinois. Based on that acreage you can qualify for either resident landowner tags that are free or dirt cheap, or NR landowner tags that are quite a bit less than th regular NR tags, but I think still cost a pretty penny. I am all for lowering the minimal acreage requirement to 29 acres[8D]

What is the acreage requirement for indiana??