Current through August 26, 2024
(1) WEAPONS. No person may:
(a) Hunt with any means other than a rifle,
shotgun, handgun, bow and arrow, crossbow, or falconry.
(b) Hunt with a machine gun or other fully
automatic weapon.
(c) Hunt a game
bird with or while in possession of a shotgun larger than 10 gauge.
(d) Hunt a deer during a muzzleloader-only
hunt, such as described in s.
NR 10.01 (3)
(es), with any gun other than a
muzzle-loading firearm.
Note: Par. (d) is affected by 2023 Wis. Act
116 and CR 23-025. The 2 treatments are mutually inconsistent. Par. (d) is
shown as affected by 2023 Wis. Act 116. As affected by CR 23-025, it
reads:
(d) Hunt a deer
during a muzzleloader-only hunt, such as described in s.
NR 10.01 (3)
(es), with any gun other than a rifle,
shotgun, or handgun that is a firearm capable of being loaded only from the
muzzle through the use of a ramrod.
(e) Hunt a migratory bird with any shotgun
capable of holding more than 3 shells unless the magazine has been cut off or
plugged with a one-piece filler that cannot be removed without disassembling
the gun and which reduces the capacity of the gun to not more than 3 shells at
one time in the magazine and chamber combined.
(2) AMMUNITION. No person may:
(a) Use, possess, or have under control of
any of the following while hunting:
1. Shot
shells containing shot larger than T, except that shot shells containing shot
not larger than F may be used when hunting migratory birds.
2. Any tracer or incendiary ammunition that
is not a distress flare.
3. Any
bullet, arrow, or bolt that is designed or modified to explode or deliver
poisons or drugs.
(b)
Hunt a game bird with any ammunition other than an arrow, bolt, or shot shell
that consists of more than one projectile.
(c) Hunt a deer, bear, or elk with any
ammunition other than an arrow, bolt, or bullet that is a single projectile of
an expanding design.
(d) Do any of
the following while hunting waterfowl, snipe, rails, moorhens, or coot within
any areas of the state, or mourning doves on lands which are under the
management, supervision and control of the department:
1. Take, catch, kill or pursue waterfowl,
mourning doves, snipe, rails, moorhens, or coot with any shot, either in shot
shells or as loose shot for muzzle-loading, other than non-toxic
shot.
2. Possess any shot shell or
muzzle-loading firearm loaded with any material other than non-toxic
shot.
(3)
REASONABLE EQUIPMENT. No person may hunt with any weapon or ammunition that is
of inherent design, or used in such a manner, as to not be reasonably capable
of reducing a target wild animal to possession. The following are prima facie
reasonable equipment:
(a) A firearm with a
caliber of at least .22.
(b) A bow
with a minimum draw weight of 30 pounds.
(c) A crossbow with a minimum draw weight of
100 pounds.
(d) A raptor, as
defined in s.
NR 18.01 (10).
(e) Commercially manufactured or similar
hand-loaded or re-loaded ammunition.
(f) An arrow or bolt with a sharpened
broad-head blade.
For a complete history of s. NR 10.09 from 1-2-56 through
1-31-02 see the History note following s. NR 10.09 published in Register
January 2002 No. 553.
