Is this legal? Hypothetical Situation

[PowellSixO]

I've always wondered what the legality on this question would be, out of curiosities sake. Let's say you're hunting a unit, and you find a great glassing point in the unit boarding it. You're standing on the glassing point in a different unit than you have a tag for, but the deer you want to shoot is in the unit you have a tag for. Is it or is it not ok to shoot? Lol, I'm bored. I think of some weird chit when you let my mind wander. Hehe.

[n2horns]

That's why we build 1 to 2 mile rifles.

[oz31p]

You must be standing in the unit you hold the tag while shooting an animal you have the tag for

[PowellSixO]

That's why we build 1 to 2 mile rifles.

So is that a yes? Lol.

[Couzer]

Good question, I have wanted to know the answer to this same exact question!!!

[metau]

But does the animal have to be in the same unit as you as well? What if your first shot you and the animal were in the same unit, but then they went over a ridge/creek into a neighboring unit. Could you shoot a follow up shot? Would you be allowed to track them into the neighboring unit?

[Non-Typical Solutions]

Good question, I have wanted to know the answer to this same exact question!!!

Good example......north border of 23 high on the rim.....looking down from the rim into 23.....I have the same question??

I am pretty sure you gotta be in the unit you are hunting to pull the trigger.....but I dang sure don't want to get rung up for being in the bordering unit while glassing below???

[6ANut]

I have been told that in the case that metau is talking about you would need to contact G&F and have them on site when you go into the other unit. I know of one case the hunter was only allowed to track the wounded animal for about a quarter mile until they were forced to stop looking.

[Tac]

unit 23 and unit 22 read below the mogollon rim so?? legal as long as you are not on top

[jim]

Well the 22 north hunt would be a great question. Those guys shoot from up top all the time. The actual break line for those units would be hard to enforce since it's hard to determine what's top or not.

[IA Born]

I have been told that in the case that metau is talking about you would need to contact G&F and have them on site when you go into the other unit. I know of one case the hunter was only allowed to track the wounded animal for about a quarter mile until they were forced to stop looking.

 

This is exactly right. We teach this exact scenario in Hunter Ed. You have a legal right to track the animal, but you have to prove you shot it in your unit first. That's where you contact the WM for your unit before heading into the neighboring unit with your firearm or bow.

[PowellSixO]

Does anyone have a link to the regs where it says you must be in your unit to pull the trigger? Thanks.

[Zeke-BE]

I always thought you have to shoot on your unit, and kill on your unit. But if a animal runs over and dies its ok. I think

[GJMauro12]

Does anyone have a link to the regs where it says you must be in your unit to pull the trigger? Thanks.

I would like to see that too! I know there's some nice canyon creeks that act as the border for two units. I believe the actual border would be center of the creek bed but i could be wrong. It would be nice if I could glass the side of the canyon that is in my unit while sitting in the other unit and be able to pull the trigger.

 

One year we followed bugles into one of these canyons and caught up to a bull standing in the middle of a creek that was a border. Would that bull have been legal to shoot?

[6ANut]

 

I have been told that in the case that metau is talking about you would need to contact G&F and have them on site when you go into the other unit. I know of one case the hunter was only allowed to track the wounded animal for about a quarter mile until they were forced to stop looking.

 

This is exactly right. We teach this exact scenario in Hunter Ed. You have a legal right to track the animal, but you have to prove you shot it in your unit first. That's where you contact the WM for your unit before heading into the neighboring unit with your firearm or bow.

 

My friends don't call me Game and Fish for no reason and for GJMauro12 I would have to say that if a bull was in the middle of the creek, that you knew was the boundary of your unit, it might be legal but I would be hard pressed to pull the trigger. For the fact that I would have to prove my case to them to legally take my animal. One game and fish ranger told me its never good to have a rifle and a tag and be in a unit that isn't on your tag.