Gun hunting question

[WoodCoDep]

Not sure if this has ever been covered or not, if it has I couldn't find it. My father in law and I had a discussion(mild argument) lol about when you can and can't be in the woods during gun season. I couldn't find any definitive answer in the regs that was black and white and was hoping someone could clear it up. Say someone goes into the woods before daylight and either climbs into a stand or sets on the ground and waits on the sunrise, are they breaking the law? I have always assumed you could go in the woods at dark and wait on shooting light so long as the gun wasn't loaded and they weren't attempting to shoot anything. He on the other hand believes you have to wait until legal "shooting" time to enter the woods period. This is what the definitions of hunting per the regs say:

HUNTING means pursuing, shooting, killing, following after or on the trail of, lying in wait for, shooting at, or wounding wild birds or wild quadrupeds while employing any device commonly used to kill or wound wild birds or wild quadrupeds, whether such acts result in such killing or wounding or not. It includes every attempt to kill or wound and every act of assistance to any other person in killing or wounding or attempting to kill or wound wild birds or wild quadrupeds.

The parts I call into question are, lying in wait for, iffy but if not attempting to kill something at that time is it illegal?, Also it says every attempt to kill or wound, is someone attempting to kill or wound by just sitting there waiting?
I didn't wanna waste a wardens time by calling them over it but didn't know if anyone here had the answer or any insight. Thanks, Zach

 

[Big_Holla]

You aren't considered "hunting" until your gun is loaded or your arrow is nocked. You are not pursuing, shooting, killing, following on trail, etc. in the dark with an unloaded weapon.

 

[WoodCoDep]

You aren't considered "hunting" until your gun is loaded or your arrow is nocked. You are not pursuing, shooting, killing, following on trail, etc. in the dark with an unloaded weapon.

that's my opinion as well

 

[jagermeister]

Seems pretty black and white to me

 

[Jamie]

yep, you can go in the woods any time you want simply carrying a legal weapon. now if GW sneaks up on you and checks your gun an hour before daylight and it's loaded, you getting a ticket. I'm going to say that odds are very much against that ever happening.

 

[brock ratcliff]

yep, you can go in the woods any time you want simply carrying a legal weapon. now if GW sneaks up on you and checks your gun an hour before daylight and it's loaded, you getting a ticket. I'm going to say that odds are very much against that ever happening.

Unlikely in the morning but we used to have a WO waiting on us regularly after quitting time. He would hide in weeds or by the truck. He would listen for you to unload your gun. If he would have heard a shell eject after legal hours he would have written a ticket. He was a pain. Believe me, we followed the rules strictly with him around. And that was when quitting time was at sunset.

 

[giles]

Wait, so your gun can't be loaded when you leave the truck?! I've been doing things all wrong for years. Like all of them... can it be loaded but not chambered?

 

["J"]

No rounds in the gun.... Been there done that, paid the fine....

 

[giles]

What if you have a CCW?

 

["J"]

What if you have a CCW?

for a hunting weapon I’d have too think that’s a hard no, for the concealed weapon, probably.... That’s just my gut saying that.

 

[giles]

So this law is telling me that I can't walk around with a loaded shotgun unless it hunting season? I don't understand what the problem is with it being loaded. Can I have a hook tied on before sunrise on a spring walleye run?

 

["J"]

So this law is telling me that I can't walk around with a loaded shotgun unless it hunting season? I don't understand what the problem is with it being loaded. Can I have a hook tied on before sunrise on a spring walleye run?

Apples and oranges.... Nice try though

 

[giles]

I guess I learned something today.

 

[Gern186]

Chambering a round at 30 minutes til sunrise sure makes alot of noise....just saying.

 

[bowhunter1023]

If the 'Rona doesn't come out until 10PM in Ohio, my loaded shotgun ain't hunting until it's legal light.

 

[eloucha]

I am going to ask my instructor ccw who use to work with Kevin Sadeski lawyer past last year who have books and help to put many law in Ohio guns actually they was working abt changing law abt radio is illegal begin used during hunting Bc now they count it as approaching here but in Michigan radios is legal.


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[OhioWhiteTails]

I am going to ask my instructor ccw who use to work with Kevin Sadeski lawyer past last year who have books and help to put many law in Ohio guns actually they was working abt changing law abt radio is illegal begin used during hunting Bc now they count it as approaching here but in Michigan radios is legal.


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WUT?

 

[Johnny44]

Could you say you are hunting coyotes until legal light for deer? Oh wait, I think I read you can't hunt coyotes at night during gun season????

 

[Mike]

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