#1318019 - 05/19/1110:39 PM
Re: Laws on shooting squirrels with a pellet gun
[Re: Scott Farris]
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Originally Posted By: Scott Farris
Page 12 of this year's Hunting & Trapping guide:
High-Velocity Air Guns - Restricted to those that use a single ball or pellet-like projectile. Additional restrictions on the use of air guns are the same as those for rifles and handguns.
The additional restrictions include the 500 ft requirement.
Scott
Scott, I saw that, but thought it was so ambiguously vague, that I was looking for clarification from the law book, not just the hunting guide. To that end, if we interpret it literally, we have to then say that since air guns carry all the restrictions of a rifle, that you must have 10 acres to hunt with one. And, since air guns carry all the restrictions of a pistol, that you would need a carry permit for one as well.