WTF? This could end bad.. People in Phoenix and surrounding areas, please be careful with your birds... just and FYI.
Animal Use and Abuse
Pigeon Hunting Now Allowed Within Phoenix City Limits. Yee-Ha
By James King Fri., Jul. 29 2011 at 10:23 AM Comments (2)
Categories: Animal Use and Abuse, Wild, Wild West
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Yee-ha! Cletus, we can bag us some of that good pigeon meat without even leavin' the city. Git yer gun.
​With some 1.4 million people, Phoenix is the sixth biggest city in the country -- so it only makes (gulp) sense that hunting pigeons within city limits is totally legal.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department recently released its 2011-12 Arizona Dove and Band-tailed Pigeon regulations, and has opened up about a million acres of land for hunting -- all in municipal areas around the state.
According to the new rules, hunters can bag up to 10 birds a day, and can now hunt until sunset statewide.
Don't expect to be walking near Phoenix City Hall and see hunters blasting away at pigeons -- AGFD has limited municipal pigeon hunting to mainly uninhabitable areas of the city. Click here for a map of where you can and can't hunt pigeons in Phoenix. And state laws regarding where you can discharge still apply, such as the following:
A.R.S. § 17-309 (a)(4) It is unlawful for a person to:
"Discharge a firearm while taking wildlife within one-fourth mile of an occupied farmhouse or other residence, cabin, lodge or building without permission of the owner or resident."
A.R.S. § 17-301(b):
"...No person may knowingly discharge any firearm or shoot any other device upon, from, across or into a road or railway."
A.R.S. § 17-304 provides provisions for private landowners ensuring:
A person may not trespass on private property for taking wildlife if that property is posted 'no hunting' or if a person is asked to leave by the owner.
For more info on Phoenix's new municipal pigeon hunting rules click here.
Here is a link to the map..
http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/hunt-info/dove/metrodovemap-legaldescript.pdf
Animal Use and Abuse
Pigeon Hunting Now Allowed Within Phoenix City Limits. Yee-Ha
By James King Fri., Jul. 29 2011 at 10:23 AM Comments (2)
Categories: Animal Use and Abuse, Wild, Wild West
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Yee-ha! Cletus, we can bag us some of that good pigeon meat without even leavin' the city. Git yer gun.
​With some 1.4 million people, Phoenix is the sixth biggest city in the country -- so it only makes (gulp) sense that hunting pigeons within city limits is totally legal.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department recently released its 2011-12 Arizona Dove and Band-tailed Pigeon regulations, and has opened up about a million acres of land for hunting -- all in municipal areas around the state.
According to the new rules, hunters can bag up to 10 birds a day, and can now hunt until sunset statewide.
Don't expect to be walking near Phoenix City Hall and see hunters blasting away at pigeons -- AGFD has limited municipal pigeon hunting to mainly uninhabitable areas of the city. Click here for a map of where you can and can't hunt pigeons in Phoenix. And state laws regarding where you can discharge still apply, such as the following:
A.R.S. § 17-309 (a)(4) It is unlawful for a person to:
"Discharge a firearm while taking wildlife within one-fourth mile of an occupied farmhouse or other residence, cabin, lodge or building without permission of the owner or resident."
A.R.S. § 17-301(b):
"...No person may knowingly discharge any firearm or shoot any other device upon, from, across or into a road or railway."
A.R.S. § 17-304 provides provisions for private landowners ensuring:
A person may not trespass on private property for taking wildlife if that property is posted 'no hunting' or if a person is asked to leave by the owner.
For more info on Phoenix's new municipal pigeon hunting rules click here.
Here is a link to the map..
http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/hunt-info/dove/metrodovemap-legaldescript.pdf
