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Hunting equipment and methods

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Prohibited
IconAutomatic firearms
IconElectric devices intended to stun or kill animals
IconExplosives, poison, poisoned or anesthetized bait or live animals for bait and lure
IconSmoke, gas or fire to drive animals from their hiding places
IconCrossbows, bows, and other string weapons
IconElectric, electronic, or magnetic sound-reproducing devices to lure animals
IconBullets for rifled weapons other than hollow point bullets for hunting ungulates
IconAll sizes of shot and slugs for hunting ungulates
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Lead or lead-containing shot for hunting birds

  • In order to limit the release of toxic substances (lead) into the environment, it is prohibited to hunt any species of animals with lead or lead-containing shot in wetlands (territories permanently covered with water or periodically flooded, swamps, peatlands) and within 100 m of them. More
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Ammunition that does not have the necessary bullet energy:

  • hunting of roe deer – it is prohibited to use rifled gun cartridges with a bullet energy of less than 1,000 J at a distance of 100 m;
  • hunting fallow deer, second-year wild boars and young boars – it is prohibited to use rifled gun cartridges with a bullet energy of less than 2,000 J at a distance of 100 m;
  • hunting elk, red deer and adult wild boars – it is prohibited to use rifled gun cartridges with a bullet energy of less than 2,500 J at a distance of 100 m.
IconBird nets, glue, hooks, and other tools or devices that are not specified as permitted
IconAnimal snares
IconFighting and dangerous dogs and their crossbreeds
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Night vision sights or their accessories attached to optical sights

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Night sights or their accessories attached to optical sights are permitted only for stalking hunting, when hunting boars, foxes, mongooses, common raccoons, Canadian minks, nutrias, and muskrats.

Please note that a universal sight (with a day/night mode switching function) is considered a night sight.

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Mirrors or other dazzling devices, artificial light sources

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Only searchlights attached to a rifle are permitted when hunting boars, foxes, mongooses, common raccoons, Canadian minks, nutrias, and muskrats, hunting dogs are used for hunting or searching for wounded animals.

Hunting with a searchlight is permitted to hunt:

  • foxes – 15 October – 31 March;
  • mongooses, raccoons, minks, nutria, muskrats, and boars – throughout the calendar year.
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Semi-automatic firearms with magazines holding more than 2 rounds

IconSemi-automatic firearms are permitted if the magazines are equipped with limiters that prevent the use of more than 2 rounds.
Permissible 
IconLong rifled and smooth-bore weapons with or without optical sights
IconShort firearms of categories B and C, when killing a wounded or injured game animal or a game animal caught in live traps in order to end its suffering
IconNets, traps, traps ensuring the capture of a living and uninjured animal
IconSelective traps* ensuring the sudden death of a caught animal
IconHunting daggers, when killing a wounded or injured game animal in order to end its suffering
IconStuffed animals, imitations, natural bait, pheromone and chemical baits, other devices and means for luring animals (except those listed as the prohibited ones)
IconKnives, flags 
IconBinoculars, night vision devices (which are not the same as night sights, listed as the prohibited ones), stationary or mobile stalking towers and artificial shelters, hiding places
IconHunting dogs, birds of prey, horses
IconLand vehicles and watercraft
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It is prohibited to hunt:

  • from land vehicles, as well as to chase or run down game animals with vehicles;
  • from aircraft;
  • from moving motor watercraft;
  • by illuminating from vehicles with any artificial light sources.

* Selective traps are specially adapted traps that are designed to catch only certain species of animals.