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Attachment 1. Proposed changes to 50 CFR 20.21 Hunting methods. 



Migratory birds on which open seasons are prescribed in this part may be taken 

 by any method except those prohibited in this section No persons shall take migratory 

 game birds: 



(a) With trap, snare, net rifle, pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10 gauge, 

 punt gun, battery gun, machine gun, fish hook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying 

 substance; 



(b) With shotgun of any description capable of holding more than three shells, 

 unless it is plugged with one-piece filler, incapable of removal without disassembling 

 the gun, so its total capacity does not exceed three shells, 



(c) From or by means, aid, or use of sinkbox or any other type of low floating 

 device, having depression affording the hunter means of concealment beneath the 

 surface of the water; 



(d) From or by means, aid, or use of any motor vehicle, motor-driven land 

 conveyance, or aircraft of any kind, except that paraplegics and persons missing one or 

 both legs may take from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor-drive land 

 conveyance, 



(e) From or by means of any motorboat or other craft having motor attached, or 

 any sailboat, unless the motor has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled, and 

 its progress therefrom has ceased: Provided, That craft under power may be used to 

 retrieve dead or crippled birds; however, crippled birds may not be shot from such craft 

 under power except in the seaduck area as permitted in subpart K of this part, 



(f) By the use or aid of live birds as decoys, although not limited to, it shall be 

 violation of this paragraph for any person to take migratory waterfowl on an area where 

 tame or captive live ducks or geese are present unless such birds are and have been 

 for period of 10 consecutive days prior to such taking, confining within an enclosure 

 which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally conceals such birds 

 from the sight of wild migratory waterfowl, 



(g) By the use or aid of recorded or electrically amplified bird calls or sounds, or 

 recorded or electrically amplified imitations of bird calls or 



sounds; 



(h) By means or aid of any motor driven land, water, or air conveyance, or any 

 sailboat used for the purpose of or resulting in the concentrating, driving, rallying, or 

 stirring up of any migratory bird, 



(i) Knowingly and intentionally b By the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited 

 area, nor shall any person knowingly and intentionally cause other persons to take 

 migratory birds by the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited area. As used in this 



