Hunting Trivia
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96 free Hunting trivia questions with answers — nature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
41 free Hunting trivia questions with answers. Hunting trivia questions for deer camp, the duck blind or a hunter-education class. The quiz covers the game itself - whitetail antlers and the rut, jakes and gobblers, feral hogs and de Soto's pigs - and the gear: how a shotgun gauge is defined, why a compound bow has let-off, what a muzzleloader is, why hunter orange works. It also covers the laws and people who built American conservation on hunters' money: the Lacey Act, the Duck Stamp, Pittman-Robertson, Ducks Unlimited, Boone and Crockett, Aldo Leopold and Fred Bear, plus falconry, England's fox-hunting ban, Jim Corbett's tiger and the goddess Artemis. Easy questions any weekend hunter will get come first; the later ones will separate the people who read the regulations from the people who guess. Neutral in tone, no gore. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and carries its source.
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Q 01The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 funds state wildlife programmes through a tax on what?
Guns, ammunition and archery gear
The act taxes guns, ammunition and archery gear (11% excise, 10% on handguns); signed by FDR, it has funded much of America's wildlife recovery.
Q 02Under Pittman-Robertson, states are reimbursed for what share of an approved wildlife project's cost?
Up to 75%
The state pays up front and claims back three-quarters, so licence fees still matter.
Q 03Who designed the first Federal Duck Stamp in 1934?
Jay 'Ding' Darling
Jay 'Ding' Darling, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and head of the Bureau of Biological Survey, drew two mallards landing on a pond for the 1934 stamp.
Q 04Money from Federal Duck Stamp sales goes where?
The Migratory Bird Conservation Fund
Proceeds go into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, which buys and leases wetland for the National Wildlife Refuge System; the stamps have raised more than $1 billion since 1934.
Q 05Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell founded which hunting-conservation group in 1887?
Boone and Crockett
The Boone and Crockett Club, founded by Roosevelt and Grinnell in 1887, codified the 'fair chase' ethic and keeps the North American big-game records book.
Q 06In hunting regulations, what is a 'bag limit'?
The maximum number of animals a hunter may take
A bag limit is the maximum number of animals one hunter may take, per day or per season; wildlife agencies set it to keep harvests sustainable.
Q 07Which bird, once North America's most abundant at up to five billion, was extinct by 1914?
The passenger pigeon
The passenger pigeon, shot and netted by market hunters and shipped by the barrel, was gone by 1914; Martha, the last, died at Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914.
Q 08The Lacey Act of 1900 made it a federal crime to do what?
Poaching game in one state to sell in another
Introduced by Iowa's John F. Lacey and signed by McKinley, it was aimed at market hunting; a 2008 amendment extended it to timber.
Q 09Which forester and hunter, author of A Sand County Almanac, is called the founder of wildlife management?
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold's 1933 textbook Game Management earned him the first professorship in the field, at the University of Wisconsin; A Sand County Almanac appeared posthumously in 1949.
Q 10In the essay 'Thinking Like a Mountain', what does the author watch die after shooting it?
A wolf
Leopold shoots an old she-wolf and watches the 'fierce green fire' die in her eyes, an experience that changed his view of predators and fed his 'land ethic'.
Q 11Who developed the compound bow in 1966?
Holless Wilbur Allen
Holless Wilbur Allen, a Missouri bowhunter, fitted pulleys to a cut-down recurve in 1966 and patented the compound bow in 1969.
Q 12What does a compound bow's 'let-off' describe?
The drop in holding force at full draw
Let-off is the drop in holding force at full draw: a 70-pound bow with 80% let-off holds at about 14 pounds, so bowhunters can wait for a shot.
Q 13Fred Bear, the bowhunting pioneer, moved his archery company in 1947 to which Michigan town?
Grayling
Bear Archery moved from Detroit to Grayling, Michigan, in 1947 and stayed until 1978; Ted Nugent's song 'Fred Bear' honours him.
Q 21A male wild turkey's 'beard' is what?
A tuft of hair-like filaments on its chest
The beard is a tuft of hair-like filaments hanging from the chest, growing longer with age; a few hens grow one too, and its length is a hunter's brag.
Q 22In which year was Ducks Unlimited, the wetlands conservation group, founded?
1937
Ducks Unlimited was founded in 1937, amid the Dust Bowl drought, by publishing tycoon Joseph P. Knapp, and has since conserved well over 15 million acres of wetland habitat.
Q 23What kind of shot must US waterfowl hunters use?
Lead-free, such as steel
Q 14How is a shotgun's gauge defined?
Bore-sized lead balls per pound
So a 12-gauge bore, about 0.729 inches, is larger than a 16-gauge; the .410 is the odd one out, named by calibre.
Q 15Which shotgun gauge has long been the most widely used?
12
The 12-gauge, with a bore of roughly 0.729 inches, dominates sales for waterfowl, upland and clay shooting; the smaller the gauge number, the bigger the bore.
Q 16What is the most hunted native big-game species in the Americas?
White-tailed deer
The white-tailed deer is hunted more than any other big game in the Americas; the US herd rebounded from about 300,000 in 1930 to some 30 million by 2005.
Q 17When do bucks of the most-hunted deer species shed their antlers?
Late December to February
Whitetail bucks typically drop their antlers from late December to February, after the autumn rut ends and testosterone falls; a new set grows each spring and summer.
Q 18Why does a whitetail buck or doe raise its tail?
To warn a predator it is seen
The white 'flag' tells the hunter the game is up; the US herd rebounded from about 300,000 in 1930 to some 30 million.
Q 19How low did the US wild turkey population fall by the late 1930s?
About 30,000
About 30,000 wild turkeys remained in the late 1930s; trap-and-transfer restocking raised the population to 1.3 million by 1973 and past 6 million by the 2000s.
Q 20In turkey-hunting terms, what is a 'jake'?
A juvenile male
A jake is a juvenile male turkey, recognisable by a short beard and an uneven tail fan; a full-grown male is a tom or gobbler, a female a hen.
Since 1991 US waterfowl hunters must use lead-free shot such as steel, bismuth or tungsten, because ducks swallowed spent lead pellets off the bottom and were poisoned.
Q 24What is a hunting 'blind'?
A structure hiding the hunter
Blinds and decoy spreads are the core of waterfowling; a punt gun once let market hunters kill dozens of birds in one blast.
Q 25What name is given to the skin covering a deer's growing antlers?
Velvet
Velvet is the blood-rich skin that feeds growing antlers through summer; once they harden, bucks rub it off on saplings before the rut.
Q 26Which state has by far the most feral pigs?
Texas
Texas holds roughly 2.5 million feral pigs, more than any other state; it even allows 'heli-hogging', shooting them from helicopters.
Q 27Which Spanish explorer introduced pigs to Florida in 1539, ancestors of today's wild hogs?
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto landed at Tampa Bay in 1539 with a herd of pigs to feed his expedition; escapees became the ancestors of Florida's wild hogs.
Q 28Which deer-hunting method has people walk through woods to push animals toward waiting hunters?
Driving
Tree stands, ground blinds and stalking are the alternatives; the rut in late October and November is the prime time for all of them.
Q 29The Hunting Act 2004 banned hunting most wild mammals with dogs where?
England and Wales
The Hunting Act 2004 covers England and Wales; Scotland had acted in 2002, the Commons invoked the Parliament Acts to overrule the Lords, and drag hunting stayed legal.
Q 30On what date did the English fox-hunting ban come into force?
18 February 2005
The Hunting Act received Royal Assent on 18 November 2004 and came into force three months later, on 18 February 2005.