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Deer, bear, and cougar may be hunted with 20
gauge to 10 gauge shotguns shooting slugs or
#1 or larger buckshot. Other big game may be
hunted with a 10 or 12 gauge shotgun using
slugs. Hunters must use #4 shot or smaller
(e.g. #6 shot is legal) to hunt turkey.
In the Wa state regs, page 68:
Deer, bear, and cougar may be hunted with 20
gauge to 10 gauge shotguns shooting slugs or
#1 or larger buckshot. Other big game may be
hunted with a 10 or 12 gauge shotgun using
slugs. Hunters must use #4 shot or smaller
(e.g. #6 shot is legal) to hunt turkey.
No idea about any other states.
That's nteresting. So you can hunt "other" big game with a soft lead 5/8th ounce 20 gauge slug but cannot use buckshot with hard alloyed 3/4th ounce pellets?
There are Washington game management areas that are "shotgun only". Usually where there is a chance that someone might be living within "rifle range".
I knew there were several place back east.
No, thats not what it says.
"Other big game may be hunted with a 10 or 12 gauge shotgun using slugs. "
"Why" would be a rhetorical question, I wouldn't try too hard to make sense of any .gov rule. Never forget who/what you are dealing with.
Basically anything between I 5 (or Hwy 9 in places) and the Sound, and most of the ilands in the sound are shotgun, BP or archery only. Goes by GMU. There may be others, but I am postitive that north of Seattle and west of I 5 and on into the sound, if the GMU doesn't prohibit hunting with a modern rifle, the county does. Yes, basically it is too many houses: for safety.