1890 — West Virginia — Hunting

1889-1890 W.V. L. chap. 14, p. 173

Summary

Prohibited hunting with swivel guns. The law also set a hunting season.

Statutory Text

11. It shall be unlawful for any person in any place to catch, kill or injure or to pursue with such intent any quail or Virginia partridge, between the twentieth day of December and the first day of November following; or any wild turkey, between the first day or January and the fifteenth day of September; or any ruffled grouse, pheasant, pinnated grouse, or prarie chicken, between the first day of January and the first day of November; or any blue winged teal, mallard or wood-duck or any other wild duck, wild goose or brant, at any time between the first day of April and the first day of October; or any snipe, except between the first day of March and the first day of July; or any wood cock, except between the first day of July and the fifteenth day of September. And it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to catch by seine net or trap, any quail or Virginia partridge. And it shall be unlawful for any person by the use of any swivel or pivot gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid of any push boat, or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound or destroy, or to pursue with such intent upon any of the waters, bogs, rivers, marshes, mud flats or any cover to which wild fowl resort within this State, any wild goose, wild duck or brant.

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Title 1890 — West Virginia — Hunting
Conduct Use
Instrument Firearms
Jurisdiction WV
Date 1890