Effects on Small Business: No effects on small businesses are anticipated. The hunting regulations proposed in this rule will not be significantly different those in place during previous seasons. These rules are applicable to individual hunters and impose no compliance or reporting requirements for small business, nor are any design or operational standards contained in the rule.
Agency Contact Person: Scott Loomans, 101 South Webster St., PO BOX 7921, Madison, WI 53707-7921. (608) 267-2452, scott.loomans@wisconsin.gov Deadline for Written Comments: The deadline for written comments is April 10, 2017
Section 1. NR 10.001 (17) and (18) are repealed.
Section 2. NR 10.01 (c)1.a., (d) 1. and (f) are amended to read:
Kind of animal and locality | Open season (all dates inclusive) | Limit |
(c) Pheasants. 1. Cocks only |
a. In all counties of the state except the properties specified in subds. 1. b. and 2. and s. NR 10.24. | Early season—Beginning on the Saturday nearest October 17 at 9:00 a.m. and continuing for 2 consecutive days | Daily bag 1; possession 2 |
| Late season—Beginning on the day immediately after the season described above and continuing through December 31. the Sunday nearest January 6. | Daily bag 2; possession 6 |
(d) Gray (Hungarian) partridge. |
1. In all counties of the state except in the areas listed in subd. 2. | Beginning on the Saturday nearest October 17 at 9:00 a.m. and continuing through December 31 the Sunday nearest January 6. | Daily bag 3; possession 9 |
2. Clark, Marathon and Taylor counties. | None | None |
NR 10.01 (2) (f) Wild turkey. |
2. All wild turkey hunting zones as described in s. NR10.29 and the Mill Bluff state park portion of zone 1, excluding all other state parks, for which a quota has been established under s. NR 10.25 (5). Wild turkey hunting zones 1−5, as described in s. NR 10.29 and the Mill Bluff state park portion of zone 1, excluding all other state parks, for which a quota has been established under s. NR 10.25 (5). | Fall season beginning on the Saturday nearest September 15 and continuing through the Friday immediately preceding the Thanksgiving holiday. Fall season reopening on the Saturday immediately preceding the Thanksgiving holiday and continuing through December 31. the Sunday nearest January 6. | Either sex of turkey may be killed. The possession limit corresponds to the number of carcass tags issued. Either sex of turkey may be killed. The possession limit corresponds to the number of carcass tags issued. |
Section 3. NR 10.01 (3) (ex) 3. is created to read:
NR 10.01 (3) (ex) 3. The department may modify the archer and crossbow season dates so that those seasons continue through January 31in a farmland zone unit where it has also modified the season dates as established under subd. par. 2.
Section 4. NR 10.01 (4) (d) 2. is repealed.
Section 5. NR 10.01 (4) (dm) is repealed and recreated to read:
Kind of animal and locality | Open season (all dates inclusive) | Limit |
1. North zone as described in s. NR 10.38. | Beginning on the Saturday nearest October 17 and continuing through the Sunday nearest January 6. | The possession limit corresponds to the number of pelt tags issued. |
1. South zone as described in s. NR 10.38. | Beginning on the Saturday nearest October 17 and continuing through the Sunday nearest January 6. | The possession limit corresponds to the number of pelt tags issued. |
Section 6. NR 10.04 (2) is repealed and recreated to read:
NR 10.04 (2) Chukar partridge, coturnix quail, English sparrows, Eurasian collared doves and starlings. Section 7. NR 10.09 is repealed and recreated to read:
NR 10.09 Weapons and ammunition. (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 rifle, shotgun, or handgun that is a firearm with a solid breech plug attached with threads and capable of being loaded only from the muzzle. (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 while hunting
1. shot shells containing shot larger than T.
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) While hunting waterfowl, snipe, rails, moorhens and 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, and 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.
(e) commercially manufactured or similar hand-loaded or re-loaded ammunition
(f) an arrow or bolt with a sharpened broad-head blade
Section 8. NR 10.11 (1) is repealed and recreated to read:
NR 10.11 (1) No person may hunt elk with the aid of dogs.
Section 9. NR 10.12 (5) is repealed and recreated to read:
NR 10.12 (5) No person may hunt any migratory bird with a trap, snare, cable restraint, net, swivel gun, punt gun, battery gun, fishhook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying substance.
Section 10. NR 10.145 (2) (a) is amended to read:
NR 10.145 (2) (a) Fisher. The preharvest population goal for the north and south fisher management zones A, B, C, and D described under s. NR 10.01 (4) (dm) s. NR 10.38 is one fisher per 2 square miles of fisher range. Section 12. NR 10.25 (1) (c) (Intro.) and (e) are amended to read:
NR 10.25 (1) (c) License application procedures. Persons applying to hunt wild turkeys on the Ft. McCoy military reservation shall apply to that facility. During a fall season when the department will issue at least one license to all applicants, it is not necessary to apply for authorization to purchase a fall turkey hunting license. All other applicants shall apply for a turkey hunting license as follows: (e) License purchase requirement. Except for persons who purchase a license in accordance with par. (f) 2. or during a fall season when the department will issue at least one license to all applicants, no person may purchase a turkey hunting license without presenting the license vendor with the department-issued purchase authorization. Section 13. NR 10.25 (4) (a) is repealed.
Section 14. NR 10.36 is repealed and recreated to read:
NR 10.36 Otter zones.
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Section 15. NR 10.38 is created to read:
NR 10.38 Fisher zones.
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