Question about Knives

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Evil Creamsicle wrote:

theoretically unless the game you were claiming to be hunting is 'out of season'... then you'd be poaching and thus have unlawful intent.

You could, however, claim to be hunting one of those species Michigan deems as 'pests' to be hunted year round, Raccoons and Coyotes come to mind...

Then you wouldn't even need a license.

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Just a short FYI... both Raccoons and Coyotes have seasons; stating that you are "hunting" one of these critters may not be wise.


Coyote Hunting Seasons: Statewide Jul. 15 - Apr. 15 (closed in Zone 1 & REOPENED in Zone 2 during Nov. 15-30)
Coyote may be taken on private property by a property owner or designee all year if they are doing or about to do damage on private property. A license or written permit is not needed.

Raccoon Hunting Season:Statewide Oct. 1 - Jan. 31
Raccoon may be taken on private property by a property owner or designee all year if they are doing or about to do damage on private property. A license or written permit is not needed.

http://www.michigan.gov/images/dnr/trap_season_dates_289731_7.jpg



I would suggest mentioning that you are hunting one of these:


[font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"]Species with Year-round Hunting Seasons[/font] [font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][size="-1"]The following small game species may be taken year-round with any valid hunting license* except within state park and recreation areas from April 1 to September 14:

• opossum
• porcupine
• red squirrel
• skunk
• thirteen-lined ground squirrel
• woodchuck
• weasel

The following species may be taken with a firearm year-round with any valid hunting license except within state park and recreation areas from April 1 to September 14:

• English (house) sparrow
• European starling
• feral pigeon (rock dove)

*No license is required for a resident, resident's spouse or resident's children to hunt small game on the enclosed farmlands where they live.

[/size][/font]From: http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10363_10874-150447--,00.html

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hmm... I must have been thinking of the 'unless they are about to do damage' provision.

my mistake.

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Evil Creamsicle wrote:

hmm... I must have been thinking of the 'unless they are about to do damage' provision.

my mistake.

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Oh... not really a mistake as it appears that you were just sort of "thinking out loud".

But... I really would hate someone, as remote as it may be, to say that they are out looking for raccoon and then bam... they get another charge leveled on them.

Some of this has been well covered in previous posts, but here is a link with some info: I especially like the cases listed at the end.

http://knife-expert.com/mi.txt

A more general/historical understanding of knife laws can be found here:

http://www.akti.org/PDFS/KnifeLaws.pdf