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Does it mean that if your gun is not loaded that you can sit and watch the feeder from anywhere, but if you are going to shoot that yuo have to be 100 yards away, get in a position to where you cannot see the feeder, load you gun and then shoot?


The DCNR's defintion of hunting covers a lot of ground. Walking down a railroad right-of-way carrying a rifle slung over your shoulder with an empty chamber and scope covers in place can get you at ticket. Whether that defintion is overbroad or not has not been litigated yet.

You've got to watch out for some of the language in their defintion:

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DEFINITION OF HUNTING
Hunting includes pursuing, shooting, killing, capturing and trapping wild animals, wild fowl, wild birds, and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying or worrying, or placing, setting, drawing, or using any device used to take wild animals, wild fowl, wild birds, whether they result in taking or not, and includes every act of assistance to any person in taking or attempting to take wild animals, wild fowl, or wild birds.


You don't want to worry any animals when you're outdoors or do anything that might disturb them. Just walking thru the woods with no weapons at all may put you on shaky ground if you was to scare a bird or something.