Wyoming § 23-2-104 Archery licenses; special seasons; prohibition
against firearms; equipment

Wyoming Statutes

§ 23-2-104 — Archery licenses; special seasons; prohibition against firearms; equipment

Wyoming § 23-2-104

Title 23Game and Fish

Ch. 2LICENSES; FEES

Art. 1GAME ANIMALS AND GAME BIRDS

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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 23-2-104 (2026).

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(a)Bow and arrow or crossbow are permissible equipment to take game animals, nongame animals, game birds and nongame fish. No license is required to take nongame animals and nongame fish with bow and arrow or crossbow.

(b)The commission may establish special hunting seasons for the taking of big game or trophy game animals by bow and arrow or crossbow in such areas as it may establish by order.

(c)No person shall hunt big game or trophy game with bow and arrow or crossbow during a special archery hunting season without first obtaining an archery license and the appropriate hunting license.

(d)No person holding an archery license shall take big game or trophy game animals during a special archery hunting season or during a limited quota archery only hunting season by the use of any type

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(a) Bow and arrow or crossbow are permissible equipment to
take game animals, nongame animals, game birds and nongame fish.
No license is required to take nongame animals and nongame fish
with bow and arrow or crossbow.
(b) The commission may establish special hunting seasons
for the taking of big game or trophy game animals by bow and
arrow or crossbow in such areas as it may establish by order.
(c) No person shall hunt big game or trophy game with bow
and arrow or crossbow during a special archery hunting season
without first obtaining an archery license and the appropriate
hunting license.
(d) No person holding an archery license shall take big
game or trophy game animals during a special archery hunting
season or during a limited quota archery only hunting season by
the use of any type of firearm. Any person who takes a big game
or trophy game animal by the use of a firearm during a special
archery hunting season or during a limited quota archery only
hunting season is guilty of a high misdemeanor punishable as
provided in W.S. 23-6-202(a)(ii). Upon request by a game warden
or other Wyoming law enforcement officer, a person who has taken
a big or trophy game animal during a special archery hunting
season or during a limited quota archery only hunting season
shall allow testing of the animal's tissue for confirmation of
compliance with this section.
(e) The commission shall establish by rule and regulation
specifications for crossbows, longbows, recurve bows, compound
bows, arrows and broadheads for taking of big or trophy game
animals. The rules and regulations promulgated under the
provisions of this subsection relating to the hunting of big or
trophy game animals shall also apply to the hunting of the gray
wolf as a trophy game animal from and after the date gray wolves
are removed from the list of experimental nonessential
population, endangered species or threatened species in Wyoming
as provided by W.S. 23-1-108.
(f) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 90, § 2.
(g) Except as otherwise provided, violation of this
section or rules promulgated under subsection (e) of this
section constitutes a low misdemeanor punishable as provided in
W.S. 23-6-202(a)(v).