The Game Commission is alerting hunters that, as of Sept. 1, it will be legal to hunt furbearers with gun-mounted lights.
House Bill 881, sponsored by Rep. Gary Haluska, a Cambria County Democrat, was signed into law by Gov. Ed Rendell earlier this summer. It was supported by the Pennsylvania Predator Hunters Association.
It makes gun-mounted lights legal while hunting coyotes, foxes, bobcats, raccoons, skunks, opossums and weasels.
Ernie Wilson, president of the Predator Hunters, is urging hunters to identify their targets before pointing a firearm at anything, however. Hunters should use a hat-mounted or hand-held light to scan and locate predators, he said. The reason for this new law is only to make it easier for hunters to shoot at furbearers in the dark while still keeping both hands on their rifle or shotgun.
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