2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 34 - GAME
Chapter 23 - Hunting and Furtaking
2322 - Prohibited devices and methods.

     § 2322.  Prohibited devices and methods.
        (a)  General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this
     title or commission regulation, no person shall hunt, kill or
     take or attempt, aid, abet, assist or conspire to hunt, kill or
     take any big game, except wild turkey, with any of the following
     devices or methods:
            (1)  Any device other than a centerfire or muzzle-loading
        firearm or bow and arrow.
            (2)  Any automatic or semiautomatic firearm, except that
        any semiautomatic firearm modified to permit one shell in the
        chamber and no more than four shells in a magazine may be
        used by a person who suffered an amputation or lost the total
        use of one or both hands.
            (3)  Any firearm propelling more than one projectile per
        discharge.
            (4)  Any projectile which is not all lead or which is not
        designed to expand on contact.
            (5)  When any big game is swimming.
            (6)  By any other method or device which is not
        specifically authorized or permitted by this title or
        commission regulation.
        (b)  Penalty.--A violation of this section is a summary
     offense of the fifth degree.
        (c)  Contraband.--Any big game killed contrary to this
     section is contraband.