1861 — Ohio — Hunting

Joseph Rockwell Swan, Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio, Embracing all laws of a General Nature, Passed Since the Publication of Swan & Critchfield's Revised Statutes, 1860 13 (1868)

Summary

Prohibited using a swivel, punt, "big gun[s]", and any weapon not fired from the shoulder for hunting.

Statutory Text

(25.) Sec. III. And it shall also be unlawful for any person at any time after the passage of this act, by the aid or use of any swivel, punt gun, big gun (so called), or any gun other than the common shoulder gun or by the aid or use of any punt boat, or sneak boat used for carrying such gun to catch, kill, wound, or destroy, or to pursue after, with intent to catch, kill, wound or destroy, upon any of the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort within the state of Ohio, any wild goose, wood-duck, teal, canvas-back, blue-bill, or other wild duck.

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Title 1861 — Ohio — Hunting
Conduct Use
Instrument Firearms
Jurisdiction OH
Date 1861