What Animals Can You Hunt With A Furbears License

Furbearer Hunting

Coyote
Photo past Steve Thompson;
courtesy of USFWS

There are ten species of furbearers that may be hunted: coyote, bobcat, raccoon, ruddy fox, grey fob, opossum, skunk, weasel, mink, and muskrat. Mink and muskrat may only exist hunted nether special weather (see below).

License Requirements

To hunt furbearers, you need to possess a hunting license. A trapping license does not let you to chase furbearers.

Hunting Hours and Methods

Bobcat, coyote, red play tricks, gray pull a fast one on, raccoon, opossum, and skunk may be hunted at whatsoever hr, day or dark. Hunting begins subsequently sunrise on the opening day of the flavor and thereafter until midnight on the closing day of the season. For more on hunting furbearers at night, see below.
You may hunt furbearers using a handgun, shotgun, rifle, bow, or crossbow. All laws pertaining to the use of firearms apply.
Crossbows may non be used while hunting with a dog for whatsoever small game, except for coyotes, in the Northern Zone.
You may hunt furbearers with a burglarize chambered in whatsoever cartridge, except that during any open flavour for deer (including archery, muzzleloading, and regular seasons) you may non possess a rifle larger than .22 caliber rimfire afield, during the day or nighttime, to hunt wildlife, including furbearers in whatever county or portion of a county where deer hunting with rifles is prohibited during the regular deer season. Centerfire rifles smaller than .22 quotient are permitted.
Air guns may be used to hunt furbearers. An air gun is defined equally a firearm that uses spring or compressed air (not gunpowder) to propel a unmarried projectile that is .17 caliber or larger and produces a muzzle velocity of at to the lowest degree 600 feet/second.
You may use a call, including an electronic phone call.

Possession and Use of Rifles for Hunting Furbearers

To determine whether you may use a burglarize to hunt furbearers, answer the post-obit questions:

Is any deer flavor open in the location you wish to hunt (including archery, muzzleloading, regular, late, and Deer Direction Focus Area)?
1. If NO, you may apply whatsoever caliber rimfire or centerfire burglarize for hunting furbearers.
2. If YES, tin deer be hunted with rifles in that location during the regular (firearms) deer flavor?
  1. If Yeah, you may use any caliber rimfire or centerfire rifle for hunting furbearers during whatsoever open up deer flavor.
  2. If NO, you may simply possess afield rimfire rifles .22-caliber or smaller, or centerfire rifles less than .22-caliber (e.g., .204, .17) during any open deer season. Once all deer seasons are closed, the brake ends, except:
You may never possess a burglarize afield in Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties.
In the Northern Zone, it is illegal to behave a rifle larger than .22-caliber rimfire (or .22-quotient or larger centerfire rifles) at any fourth dimension if accompanied by a dog, except when coyote hunting.

Furbearer Hunting at Night

You may chase furbearers at night, with or without a low-cal, as follows:

You lot may utilize a low-cal, merely you may not chase from whatever motor vehicle, including an ATV. All laws pertaining to the use of a spotlight and firearm apply.
If hunting without a light, the use of a light gathering ("starlight") scope is legal on any firearm listed below.
You may use a handgun, bow, or crossbow.
You may use a shotgun loaded with shot (whatever size).
Y'all may hunt furbearers with a burglarize chambered in whatsoever cartridge, except that during whatever open season for deer (including archery, muzzleloading and regular seasons) you may not possess a centerfire rifle afield, during the day or night, to chase wildlife, including furbearers in any county or portion of a county where deer hunting with rifles is prohibited during the regular deer season. Centerfire rifles smaller than .22 caliber are permitted (east.g., .204, .17 Hornet). Come across the section higher up for further clarification.

NOTE: In Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties rifles are non allowed. In all other localities, be certain to check with local officials about laws restricting the discharge of a firearm at night.

Reporting Your Accept

In that location is mandatory harvest reporting only for bobcat, which includes completion of a furbearer possession tag and subsequent pelt sealing.

Selling Furbearers

All furbearers except bobcat may exist bought and sold with or without the pelt attached to the carcass.
To sell bobcat pelts, or unskinned carcasses, you must follow "Pelt Sealing" requirements.

More virtually Furbearer Hunting:

Bobcat Hunting Seasons - Maps showing the areas open for bobcat hunting.
Coyote Hunting Seasons - Maps showing the areas open for coyote hunting.
Raccoon, Cherry & Gray Play a joke on, Skunk, Opossum & Weasel Hunting Seasons - Maps showing the areas open for cherry play tricks, grey fox, opossum, skunk, weasel and raccoon hunting and flavor dates.
Mink & Muskrat Hunting Seasons - Chart showing hunting season dates for mink and muskrat.

Source: https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/45559.html

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