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Deer hunting from/out of a boat #2279550
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Can someone point me in the direction of a website with the laws pertaining to deer hunting out of or from a boat in AL. I've found several in regards to duck hunting but none on the laws of having a bow/rifle on board a boat. I have several questions if anyone is familiar with these laws let me know!

Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2279559
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Can't hunt from moving boat but can use one go get to and from an area you have permission to hunt. You can not harvest a deer from a waterway.


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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: top cat] #2279564
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Originally Posted By: top cat
Can't hunt from moving boat but can use one go get to and from an area you have permission to hunt. You can not harvest a deer from a waterway.

This


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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2279636
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220-2-.11 Prohibited Methods and Devices for Hunting
(a) It shall be unlawful to concentrate, drive, rally, molest or to hunt, take, capture or kill or attempt to hunt, take, capture or kill any bird or animal from or by the aid of:
(1) Any automobile, motorcar, airplane, train, motorboat, sailboat or any type mechanically propelled device, or any other device being operated in conjunction with any of the above mentioned devices of transportation. Provided, however, that nothing in this regulation shall prevent hunting from a floating craft (except a sinkbox), including those propelled by motor, sail and wind, or both, when the motor of such craft has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled, as the case may be, its progress therefrom has ceased, and it is drifting, beached, moored, resting at anchor, or it is being propelled by paddle, oars or pole, and provided further that nothing in this regulation shall prevent the taking of game birds and game animals from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor driven land conveyance provided any forward motion is ceased and engine is shut off. Nothing in this regulation allows the hunting,
taking or killing or attempting to hunt, take or kill any bird or animal from any vehicle on a public road.


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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2279638
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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: Frankie] #2279721
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In Fl the boat can't be under power of any kind. Drifting the current is legal assuming it's WMA or other legal land to hunt

Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2279800
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I believe the way it is written as long as the motor is off you could shoot from a boat as long as the deer isn't in the water.

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Originally Posted By: ghost rabbit
I believe the way it is written as long as the motor is off you could shoot from a boat as long as the deer isn't in the water.


Possibly. But you have to have permission to hunt the property that joins the water. Not many places that can be applied.....


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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: Karl9] #2279866
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[quote=Karl9]220-2-.11 Prohibited Methods and Devices for Hunting
(a) It shall be unlawful to concentrate, drive, rally, molest or to hunt, take, capture or kill or attempt to hunt, take, capture or kill any bird or animal from or by the aid of:
(1) Any automobile, motorcar, airplane, train, motorboat, sailboat or any type mechanically propelled device, or any other device being operated in conjunction with any of the above mentioned devices of transportation. Provided, however, that nothing in this regulation shall prevent hunting from a floating craft (except a sinkbox), including those propelled by motor, sail and wind, or both, when the motor of such craft has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled, as the case may be, its progress therefrom has ceased, and it is drifting, beached, moored, resting at anchor, or it is being propelled by paddle, oars or pole, and provided further that nothing in this regulation shall prevent the taking of game birds and game animals from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor driven land conveyance provided any forward motion is ceased and engine is shut off. Nothing in this regulation allows the hunting,
taking or killing or attempting to hunt, take or kill any bird or animal from any vehicle on a public road.

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This is basically what I thought I just couldn't find it in writin. So the way I read this is that you can legally be in a boat and shoot a deer as long as motor is off and movement has ceased. Looks like the difference here between deer/ducks is that you could even shoot at a deer while paddling, but for ducks all forward progress has stopped. So as long as I'm following all the other rules and regs and the deer is on public land or land I have permission to hunt I'm fine!

Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2279899
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Originally Posted By: RedneckNinji
[quote=Karl9]220-2-.11 Prohibited Methods and Devices for Hunting
(a) It shall be unlawful to concentrate, drive, rally, molest or to hunt, take, capture or kill or attempt to hunt, take, capture or kill any bird or animal from or by the aid of:
(1) Any automobile, motorcar, airplane, train, motorboat, sailboat or any type mechanically propelled device, or any other device being operated in conjunction with any of the above mentioned devices of transportation. Provided, however, that nothing in this regulation shall prevent hunting from a floating craft (except a sinkbox), including those propelled by motor, sail and wind, or both, when the motor of such craft has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled, as the case may be, its progress therefrom has ceased, and it is drifting, beached, moored, resting at anchor, or it is being propelled by paddle, oars or pole, and provided further that nothing in this regulation shall prevent the taking of game birds and game animals from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor driven land conveyance provided any forward motion is ceased and engine is shut off. Nothing in this regulation allows the hunting,
taking or killing or attempting to hunt, take or kill any bird or animal from any vehicle on a public road.

[/quote

This is basically what I thought I just couldn't find it in writin. So the way I read this is that you can legally be in a boat and shoot a deer as long as motor is off and movement has ceased. Looks like the difference here between deer/ducks is that you could even shoot at a deer while paddling, but for ducks all forward progress has stopped. So as long as I'm following all the other rules and regs and the deer is on public land or land I have permission to hunt I'm fine!


Tried it one time as a teenager didnt work well
Cant see far outside the banks/slim chance of catching a deer getting a drink and getting close enough(you stick out like a sore thumb) then there is trying to make a good shot from a moving rocking boat. Then if you were to hit it and it fell or ran into the water then it would be illegal to go get it. I think it works better in Alaska on moose and such.

Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: Hornhntr] #2279933
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Originally Posted By: Hornhntr
Originally Posted By: RedneckNinji
[quote=Karl9]220-2-.11 Prohibited Methods and Devices for Hunting
(a) It shall be unlawful to concentrate, drive, rally, molest or to hunt, take, capture or kill or attempt to hunt, take, capture or kill any bird or animal from or by the aid of:
(1) Any automobile, motorcar, airplane, train, motorboat, sailboat or any type mechanically propelled device, or any other device being operated in conjunction with any of the above mentioned devices of transportation. Provided, however, that nothing in this regulation shall prevent hunting from a floating craft (except a sinkbox), including those propelled by motor, sail and wind, or both, when the motor of such craft has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled, as the case may be, its progress therefrom has ceased, and it is drifting, beached, moored, resting at anchor, or it is being propelled by paddle, oars or pole, and provided further that nothing in this regulation shall prevent the taking of game birds and game animals from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor driven land conveyance provided any forward motion is ceased and engine is shut off. Nothing in this regulation allows the hunting,
taking or killing or attempting to hunt, take or kill any bird or animal from any vehicle on a public road.

[/quote

This is basically what I thought I just couldn't find it in writin. So the way I read this is that you can legally be in a boat and shoot a deer as long as motor is off and movement has ceased. Looks like the difference here between deer/ducks is that you could even shoot at a deer while paddling, but for ducks all forward progress has stopped. So as long as I'm following all the other rules and regs and the deer is on public land or land I have permission to hunt I'm fine!


Tried it one time as a teenager didnt work well
Cant see far outside the banks/slim chance of catching a deer getting a drink and getting close enough(you stick out like a sore thumb) then there is trying to make a good shot from a moving rocking boat. Then if you were to hit it and it fell or ran into the water then it would be illegal to go get it. I think it works better in Alaska on moose and such.



nah , you shot a deer you can get it where ever it falls . long as you aint trespassing

you can be moving just not by motor or sail .

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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2280580
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I believe you cant shoot one swimming.
And you cant hunt an island less than 40 acres.


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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2280588
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This was one of my favorite way to hunt deer in the marsh. I would run the nose of my bout up on the marsh, set up my fishin chair and put up my little camo blind up and I was ready set. Killed lots of deer this way with gun and bow. The deer in the marsh love to travel the edge of marsh flats and lakes and they would walk right to you.


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The way a green britches informed me was the boat is the looked at the same as a truck. Its ok to go to and from a spot and to fetch the deer with, and the same rules apply as far as the rifle having to be unloaded etc. All this being said assumes you have proper permits and/ or permission to be hunting on the property to begin with.

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If I pull my truck somewhere, say the edge of a field, and sit in it like a blind, isnt that okay? Motor off.

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Re: Deer hunting from/out of a boat [Re: RedneckNinji] #2280814
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Yep


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Originally Posted By: AC870

And you cant hunt an island less than 40 acres.


this ^^^^^ is not accurate


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Originally Posted By: AC870
If I pull my truck somewhere, say the edge of a field, and sit in it like a blind, isnt that okay? Motor off.


I'll let fred answer that one, I was told it will get you a ticket, the guys asking about a boat anyway....

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Originally Posted By: deerfeeder89
Originally Posted By: AC870
If I pull my truck somewhere, say the edge of a field, and sit in it like a blind, isnt that okay? Motor off.


I'll let fred answer that one, I was told it will get you a ticket, the guys asking about a boat anyway....


years ago I said it was illegal, but the Dept said it was legal. So we went with their ruling... grin grin


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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
Originally Posted By: AC870

And you cant hunt an island less than 40 acres.


this ^^^^^ is not accurate


Yep. You can hunt an island less than 40 acres AS LONG AS the island wasn't created by floodwaters or backwaters.


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