PA Law on hunting with a flintlock pistpl

[Buckskin Jake]

Dose any one here know if I need a pistol permit to hunt with a flintlock hand gun? Thanks ff

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Flintlock and percussion pistols are considered antiques and are partially exempt from the permit requirement, except that a carry permit is required to carry one concealed on your person.
Open carry is fine. But if carried in a way that your hunting jacket or clothing covers it, ie concealed, then a carry permit is required.

Lastly, PA law prohibits many persons convicted of felonies, some midemeanors those on probation and those subject to Protection From Abuse orders from having any firearms, antique, muzzle loader, etc.

 

Dose any one here know if I need a pistol permit to hunt with a flintlock hand gun?

http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/219206/

 

[coloradoclyde]

Excellent!.... :thumbsup: :hatsoff:

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Unfortunately, nothing in any of the links listed would reveal what must be looked up in the Pennsylvania Crimes Code. The Game law has nothing, ASOLUTELy nothing, to do with when a person needs a carry permit.

 

[B.Habermehl]

The last PA. Pistol permit I had stated any registered firearm. Muzzloading firearms are not registered, thus probably are not legal for concealed carry. Muzzleloading pistols are legal for the early muzzloader season. The regs for the late season state muzzloading flintlock long guns only. BJH

 

[Grumpa]

You need to have either a Sportsman's Firearms Permit or a License to Carry Firearms.

You want the License to Carry Firearms. You want it for the reason of "Self Defense". You can have the gun concealed on your person (e.g. under your coat to keep it out of the rain), and in your vehicle, loaded.

The license applies to you, not the gun. I have carried a handgun in PA for 50 years, and the License to Carry makes no mention of any gun, registered or otherwise. No gun is listed on the license.

Your flint pistol is only legal for deer or bear if it is 50 caliber or above, firing a single ball. It is legal in both the early muzzleloader season, and in the late Flintlock season.

 

[Buckskin Jake]

Thanks