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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Section 16. NR 11.031 (11) is repealed.
Section 17. NR 11.09 (2) is repealed.
NR 12.05 (1) Findings. The natural resources board finds that unlimited shooting or trapping of cowbirds, crows, grackles, house sparrows, monk parrots, starlings, and red-winged blackbirds is necessary when causing depredation. Section 19. NR 15.022 (2) (a) is repealed and recreated to read:
NR 15.022 (2) (a) Dodge county. (a) Theresa Marsh. Township 12 north, range 17 east, town of Theresa, and township 13 north, range 17 east, town of Lomira.
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Section 20. NR 15.022 (11) is repealed and recreated to read:
