Minimum caliber of muzzle loading big game ammunition--Violation as misdemeanor
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SD Code › Title 41 › Chapter 8 › Section 41-8-10
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No person may hunt, shoot, shoot at, wound, kill, or pursue any big game animal with any muzzle loading rifle which discharges a projectile the diameter of which projectile is less than forty - four hundredths of an inch. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, § 25.0708 as added by SL 1953, ch 112; SL 1977, ch 190, § 560; SL 1979, ch 283, § 4; SL 1991, ch 337, § 41.
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