" Road hunting is legal in California, albeit with rules and regulations. I'm interested in the viewpoints of y'all..."
Actually, it's not:
Hunting regs say:
"•(a) General Prohibition: No person shall pursue, drive, herd, or take any bird or mammal from any type of motor-driven air or land vehicles, motorboat, airboat, sailboat, or snowmobile. Additionally, no person shall use any motorized, hot-air, or unpowered aircraft or other device capable of flight or any earth orbiting imaging device to locate or assist in locating big game mammals beginning 48 hours before and continuing until 48 hours after any big game hunting season in the same area. No person shall use at any time or place, without Department approval, any computer, telemetry device or other equipment to locate a big game mammal to which a tracking device is attached. For purposes of this subsection "use" includes but is not limited to personal use or intent by another to obtain information from such personal use. Evidence of an act constituting a violation of this section includes but is not limited to flying slowly at low altitudes, hovering, circling or repeatedly flying over any area where big game may be found. Exceptions to this ◦(1) When the motor of such motorboat, airboat, or sailboat has been shut off and/or the sails furled and its progress therefrom has ceased, and it is drifting, beached, moored, resting at anchor, or is being propelled by paddle, oar or pole.
◦(2) When used by the landowner or tenant of private property to drive or herd game mammals for the purpose of preventing damage to private property.
◦(3) Pursuant to a license from the department issued under such regulations as the commission may prescribe (see subsection 251(b) below). "
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§354. Archery Equipment and Crossbow Regulations.
e) No arrow or crossbow bolt may be released from a bow or crossbow upon or across any highway, road or other way open to vehicular traffic."
Penal code says (From the DOJ website):
"However, as with any firearm,
nonconcealable firearms must be unloaded while they are being transported"
"The prohibition from carrying a concealed handgun does not apply to licensed hunters or fishermen while engaged in hunting or fishing, or while going to or returning from the hunting expedition (Pen Code, § 25640 ) Notwithstanding this exception for hunters or fishermen, these individuals may not carry or transport loaded firearms when going to or from the expedition The unloaded firearms should be transported in the trunk of the vehicle or in a locked container other than the utility or glove compartment (Pen Code, § 25610 )"
"It is illegal to carry a loaded firearm on one’s person or in a vehicle while in any public place, on any public street, or in any place where it is unlawful to discharge a firearm (Pen Code, § 25850, subd (a) )
It is illegal for the driver of any motor vehicle, or the owner of any motor vehicle irrespective of whether the owner is occupying the vehicle to knowingly permit any person to carry a loaded firearm into the vehicle in violation of Penal Code section 25850, or Fish and Game Code section 2006 (Pen Code, § 26100 )
A firearm is deemed loaded when there is a live cartridge or shell in, or attached in any manner to, the firearm, including, but not limited to, the firing chamber, magazine, or clip thereof attached to the firearm A muzzle-loading firearm is deemed loaded when it is capped or primed and has a powder charge and ball or shot in the barrel or cylinder (Pen Code, § 16840 )"
"It is illegal for any person to willfully and maliciously discharge a firearm from a
motor vehicle A driver or owner of a vehicle who allows any person to discharge
a firearm from the vehicle may be punished by up to three years imprisonment
in state prison (Pen Code, § 26100 )"
Also:
"PC374(c)
Every person who shoots any firearm from or upon a public
road or highway is guilty of a misdemeanor."
"3004. (a) It is unlawful for any person, other than the owner,
person in possession of the premises, or a person having the express
permission of the owner or person in possession of the premises, to
hunt or to discharge while hunting, any firearm or other deadly
weapon within 150 yards of any occupied dwelling house, residence, or
other building or any barn or other outbuilding used in connection
therewith. The 150-yard area is a "safety zone."
(b) It is unlawful for any person to intentionally discharge any
firearm or release any arrow or crossbow bolt over or across any
public road or way open to the public, in an unsafe manner."
and Forest Service (Federal Regs):
d) Discharging a firearm or any other implement capable of taking human life, causing injury, or damaging property as follows:...
Across or on a National Forest System road or a body of water adjacent thereto, or in any manner or place whereby any person or property is exposed to injury or damage as a result in such discharge."
