Sora and Virginia Rails

Allowed

• Shotguns, 10 gauge or smaller. Must not hold more than 3 shells in the magazine and chamber combined.
• Hunting dogs
• Motor boats or sailboats may be used, but only if the motor has been shut off and/or the sails furled, and the boat’s progress therefrom has stopped.

Prohibited

• Rifles and pistols
• Firearms that propel a single projectile at one discharge
• Punt guns, battery guns, swivel guns, fully automatic firearms, traps, snares, nets, fish hooks, poisons, drugs, explosives, and stupefying substances
• Lead shot is prohibited at some conservation areas
• Motor vehicles or aircraft. Paraplegics and people missing one or both legs may hunt from a stationary vehicle
• Sink boxes or any other type of low-floating device that conceals the hunter beneath the surface of the water
• Electronic calls or electronically activated calls
• Any sighting device that casts a beam of light on the game
• Night vision or thermal imagery equipment
• Live decoys
• Bait