Shooting Preserve License
Statutory Authority: ECL Sections 11-1903, 11-0103(4)(a)(c) and 6 NYCRR Part 153 and Part 175
The Department may issue to an owner or lessee of wholly enclosed lands or an entire island, a Shooting Preserve License, permitting the licensee to purchase, possess, rear, transport, release and take by shooting domestic game birds legally acquired.
There are three classes of Shooting Preserves. They are:
- Class A allows the licensee to operate a commercial shooting preserve of a minimum of 100 acres. The licensee can charge a daily fee for hunting or charge a fee for each domestic game bird killed or any combination of fees. The domestic game birds may be killed by the licensee for their own use and may be sold dead or alive.
- Class B allows the licensee to operate a nonprofit shooting preserve or a nonprofit club or membership with use limited to members and guest. Domestic game birds may be killed by the licensee for their own use. However, no live birds or their eggs or their carcasses may be sold unless the licensee holds a valid Class A Domestic Game Bird Breeder License.
- Class C allows the licensee to operate a shooting preserve for their own use, or the use of their family and invitees. A fee cannot be charged for hunting or for domestic game birds shot. Domestic game birds may be killed for their own use but, no live domestic game birds or their eggs or their carcasses may be sold unless the licensee holds a valid Class A Domestic Game Bird Breeder License.
Please Note: Domestic game birds means captive bred ducks, geese, brant, swans, pheasants, quail, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, Chukar partridge and Hungarian or European gray-legged partridge.
To apply for this license, contact the Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources Special Licenses Unit.
Special Licenses Unit
NYSDEC
625 Broadway
Albany, NY 12233-4752
518-402-8985
