Ifrit617 wrote on Nov 17
th, 2010 at 12:28pm:
I can not fin anything onthe new york website involving slings. Could someone please try to find something? Thanks.
Go to
this page and look for the legal methods of take.
If the laws are exclusionary (meaning it tells you what
not to do) see if it tells you to not use a slingshot. If slingshots are mentioned google New York Penal Code and see how slingshots are defined. If a sling could be classified as a slingshot then it's not legal. If the definition of slingshot doesn't cover the sling then slings are still legal, but questionable. Then you'd need to ask a New York Game warden in person and explain what a sling is.
If the hunting laws make allowances (meaning that it tells you what you
can do) the look for a mention of the slingshot. If it doesn't mention a slingshot then slings are a no go. If it does say that you can use a slingshot then look up slingshot in the penal code the same as I said before and find how New York defines slingshots.
You'll need to do this for every large game animal and every game bird, plus one small game animal and one non-game animal because these laws usually say something like "Ground squirrels and other small game animals can only be taken with the legal methods for the season it was taken," and you'll need to know what the legal method for a deer is if you hunt squirrel during the deer season. I won't have time to do this until my exams are over and Thanksgiving break starts, which begins this Saturday. If you get to it before me please post on here so I can add New Yorks regulations to the list.