RESTRICTIONS AS TO METHODS OF HUNTING. 
R(>stricti()iis on incthocl.s of lnniti?i<^- are exceedingly miinorous, and 
apply not only to the use of guns, boats, and dogs, but also to time, 
place, and conditions governing the killing of game. An attempt is 
here made to bring together the more important and more general of 
these restrictions and to group them in logical order. A somewhat 
arbitrary division has been adopted by placing the prohibitions under 
two main headings: (1) Restrictions on outlits or implements for hunt- 
ing, including guns, anununition, boats, blinds and other deceptive 
devices, lights for night hunting, dogs, ferrets, and weasels; (2) 
restrictions surrounding hunting, such as trapping, netting and snar- 
ing, night shooting, and killing game in snow. Limits placed on bags 
and requirements regarding licenses, although properh^ belonging to 
this gcMieral su]>ject, are of enough importance to warrant separate 
consideration. 
OUTFITS. 
Restrictions on guns relate chiefly to size. A number of States 
j)r()hi))it the use of swivel or pivot guns in the killing of wild fowl, 
and many limit the size of the gun that may be used for shooting any 
gam(^ The term ' big gun ' as used in this connection may be defined as a 
gun larger than No. 10, except in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, 
where the maximum legal size is No. 8. Under restrictions on boats, 
four divisions are made: (1) Boats propelled bv naphtha, gasoline, oil, 
steam, electricity, or similar motive power: (2) sailboats; (8) sneak 
boats, used in wild-foAvl shooting, and (4) skills. Tnder the head of 
deceptive devices are included l)atteries, sink boxes, sink l)oats, sunken 
punts, })ough houses, blinds, and all other kinds of stationary or float- 
ing ambush, whether on shoi'e or in the water. Under the head of 
artilicial light are included in two columns restrictions on the hunting of 
big game with lights, or 'jacking,' as it is conuuonly called, and laws 
j)rohibiting IIk^ use of fin^ or light of any kind in the hunting of wild 
fowl. T\u' prohil)itions in rt^gard to the use of dogs are arranged 
under thret^ heads: Hounding, practi( ing, and permitting to run at 
large. While hounding strictly relates to the chasing of deer and 
other big game, the term is here used to include also the hunting of 
birds with dogs. Und(M' i)racticing nvo gi'ouped rc^strictions against 
the use of dogs in close season, chiefly in training them to hunt birds. 
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