Re: SHWW Group
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 1911fan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jim the Plumber</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A heads up to all you coyote hunters.
WDFW is trying to screw us on night hunting.
WAC 232-12-063 Hunting at night--Regulations--Penalties </div></div>
The changes in red basically end night coyote hunting.
WAC 232-12-063 Hunting at night--Regulations--Penalties. (1)
It is unlawful to hunt small game animals or unclassified wildlife
at night, unless all of the following requirements are met:
(a) <span style="color: #FF0000">Artificial lights used in the hunting activity are not attached to or projected from any motor vehicle.</span>
(b) Shooting occurs at least fifty feet from a motor vehicle.
(c)<span style="color: #FF0000"> Firearms are restricted to .22 caliber rifles and
handguns, and shotguns are restricted to no. 6 shot or smaller.</span>
Hunting with bow and arrow is allowed.
(d) During the months of September, October, or November
hunting does not occur in areas closed to hunting for deer or elk
with centerfire rifles.
(e) Hunting activity is further than five hundred yards from
any structure or temporary habitation located on public land.
(f) The hunting activity occurs within published open seasons.
(2) Private landowners or their designees that possess a valid
depredation permit issued by the department are exempt from the
above requirements while hunting on the permit designated property.
Nothing in this section removes the right of property owners, their
immediate family members, their documented employees, or tenants of
real property, pursuant to RCW 77.36.030, to trap or kill wildlife
that is threatening human health and safety or causing property
damage on that property, without the licenses required under RCW
77.32.010 or authorization from the director under RCW 77.12.240.
(3) A violation of this section involving killing, hunting,
taking, holding, possessing, or maliciously injuring or harming
unclassified wildlife is an infraction punishable under RCW
77.15.160. A violation of this section involving killing, hunting,
taking, holding, possessing, or maliciously injuring or harming big
game animals, small game animals, protected wildlife, or endangered
wildlife is a crime punishable under RCW 77.15.410, 77.15.430,
77.15.130, or 77.15.120, depending on the animal or wildlife
killed, hunted, taken, held, possessed, or maliciously injured or
harmed.
1911fan
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So what can we do to fight it?
