Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission
Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations
Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON
Section 15-2 - Definitions
Current through March 23, 2024
In addition to the definitions set forth in Title 23 of the Wyoming Statutes and Chapter 2, General Hunting Regulation, the Commission also adopts the following definitions for the purpose of the chapter:
(a) "Archery Equipment" means a bow of at least fifty (50) pounds draw weight. The crossbow hunter must be equipped with a crossbow of not less than ninety (90) pounds draw weight and a crossbow bolt of at least sixteen (16) inches in length. The broadhead of arrows or bolts shall have a minimum cutting width of one (1) inch.
(b) "Bull" means any male wild bison older than one (1) year of age.
(c) "Calf" means young of the year wild bison.
(d) "Edible Portions" means the meat of the front quarters as far down as the knees, the meat of the hindquarters as far down as the hocks, and the meat along the backbone between the neck and hindquarters including the loins and tenderloins, excluding meat on the ribs and neck.
(e) "Expanding Point Bullet" means any bullet designed by its manufacturer to create a wound channel larger than the bullet's diameter.
(f) "Female" means any female wild bison older than one (1) year of age.
(g) "Firearm" means any firearm which has a barrel bore diameter of at least twenty-seven hundredths (27/100) of an inch and is chambered to fire a center-fire cartridge not less than two (2) inches in overall length and using an expanding point bullet of a minimum of one hundred fifty (150) grains, seated to a normal depth.
(h) "Hunter Information Card" means a survey form used by the Department to collect wild bison hunting and harvest information.
(i) "Muzzle-loading Firearm" means a muzzle-loading rifle having a barrel bore diameter of at least 50/100 of an inch and firing an expanding point bullet or lead ball and using a charge of at least one hundred (100) grains of black powder or equivalent.
(j) "National Elk Refuge Permit" means a permit that allows a properly licensed wild bison hunter to access the National Elk Refuge to take a wild bison.
(k) "Site of kill" means the location where the harvested animal died.
(l) "Type" means a limitation on a wild bison license in a particular hunt area for the sex of animal, the length of season, the type of weapon or a portion of a hunt area in which the license shall be valid.
(m) "Waste" means to leave, abandon or allow any edible portion of meat from a wild bison to become tainted, rotten or otherwise unfit for human consumption prior to processing at a person's home or at a processor.
