An act relating to game and fish, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 1768            By: Moore

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to game and fish; providing that the

    Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall

8   prescribe by regulation the legal means of hunting

    deer during primitive firearm season; requiring the

9   commission to include handguns chambered in a certain

    caliber as legal means of taking during primitive

10  firearm season; and providing an effective date.

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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

14  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

15 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3-316 of Title 29, unless there

16 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

17  Legal means of taking deer during primitive (muzzleloading)

18 firearms season for hunters who have purchased a primitive firearms

19 hunting license shall be prescribed by regulation by the Oklahoma

20 Wildlife Conservation Commission. The Commission shall include

21 modern, non-muzzleloading handguns chambered in .38 special +P

22 caliber or larger in this list of legal means of taking during

23 primitive (muzzleloading) firearms season.

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1   SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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