Section 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 muzzle-loading firearm. Note: Par. (d) is affected by 2023 Wis. Act 116 and CR 23-025. The 2 treatments are mutually inconsistent. Par. (d) is shown as affected by 2023 Wis. Act 116. As affected by CR 23-025, it reads:
(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 capable of being loaded only from the muzzle through the use of a ramrod.(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 of any of the following while hunting: 1. Shot shells containing shot larger than T, except that shot shells containing shot not larger than F may be used when hunting migratory birds.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) Do any of the following while hunting waterfowl, snipe, rails, moorhens, or 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, or 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.(d) A raptor, as defined in s. NR 18.01 (10).(e) Commercially manufactured or similar hand-loaded or re-loaded ammunition.(f) An arrow or bolt with a sharpened broad-head blade.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 10.09
1-2-56; CR 00-154: am. (1) (a) 2., Register January 2002 No. 553, eff. 2-1-02; CR 03-015: am. (1) (a) 3. b., (c) 1. d. and 3., (2) (intro.) and (3) (b) Register July 2003 No. 571, eff. 8-1-03; CR 03-016: am. (1) (a) 2., (c) 3., and (2) (intro.) Register August 2003 No. 572, eff. 9-1-03; CR 03-018: am. (1) (a) 1. and (e) Register November 2003 No. 575, eff. 1-1-04; CR 04-020: am. (1) (c) 3. Register August 2004 No. 584, eff. 9-1-04; CR 04-046: am. (1) (a) 2., (c) 1. b., d. and 2. Register September 2004 No. 585, eff. 10-1-04; CR 05-031: am. (1) (a) 3. a. and (1) (c) 2. and 3., renum. (1) (c) 1. d. to be (1) (c) 1. e. and am., cr. (1) (c) 1. d. Register October 2005 No. 598, eff. 11-1-05; CR 07-015: am. (1) (a) 1., r. and recr. (1) (a) 2. Register September 2007 No. 621, eff. 2-1-08; CR 08-021: am. (3) (b) Register November 2008 No. 635, eff. 12-1-08; correction in (1) (a) 2. made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register November 2008 No. 635; CR 09-015: am. (1) (c) 1. (intro.) Register October 2009 No. 646, eff. 2-1-10; CR 09-024: am. (1) (c) 2. and (2) Register May 2010 No. 653, eff. 6-1-10; CR 10-020: am. (1) (c) 1. a. Register October 2010 No. 658, eff. 11-1-10; CR 10-051: am. (1) (c) 2. Register December 2010 No. 660, eff. 1-1-11; CR 13-021: r. (1) (c) 3. Register October 2013 No. 694, eff. 11-1-13; correction in (1) (c) 1. e. made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register March 2014 No. 699.Amended by, CR 13-071: am. (1) (c) 1. (intro.), r. (1) (c) 1. e., (2), am. (3) Register July 2015 No. 715, eff.8/1/2015.Amended by, correction in (History) made under s. 13.92(4) (b)., Stats.,Register August 2017 No. 740, eff. 9/1/2017Amended by, CR 19-017: am. (1) (c) 1. b., c., d. Register January 2020 No. 769, eff. 2/1/2020Amended by, CR 19-146: r. and recr. Register June 2020 No. 774, eff. 7/1/2020Amended by, CR 23-013: am. (2) (a) 1. Register February 2024 No. 818, eff. 3/1/2024Amended by, CR 23-025: am. (1) (d) Register March 2024 No. 819, eff. 4-1-24; 2023 Wis. Act 116: am. (1) (d) Register February 2024 No. 819, eff. 4/1/2024For a complete history of s. NR 10.09 from 1-2-56 through 1-31-02 see the History note following s. NR 10.09 published in Register January 2002 No. 553.