Delaware law permits Sunday hunting in listed circumstances

The provision permits hunting and pursuing game birds and game animals on Sundays in the listed circumstances. This covers hunting or pursuing game birds and game animals on Sundays, on private or public land. The text lists dog training, hunting red foxes with dogs, and commercial game preserves among the permitted circumstances. Hunting must be within seasons set by the Department. Private land hunting is at the landowner's discretion, and public land hunting must be designated by the agency in charge. The Department may also permit hunting through its deer depredation programs. The permission applies on Sundays.

The provision allows certain handguns and rifles for deer hunting in specified places and seasons, and for hunting game animals. The permission covers deer hunting on private land south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, designated state land, and farms allowed into a Department deer depredation program. A handgun must be a revolver or single-shot pistol, carried openly, and use straight-wall ammunition from .30 to .50 caliber. Ammunition in .38 caliber must have a case at least 1.29 inches long; other cases must be 1.25 to 1.82 inches long. A rifle must use sights, use straight-wall ammunition, and hold no more than three cartridges in the chamber and magazine combined. Use is allowed during firearm deer seasons in place of a shotgun, to hunt game animals, or under a Department deer depredation program. The separate January season begins on the first Saturday in January and runs through the Sunday following that Saturday.

The provision defines a muzzle-loading rifle and allows its use to hunt protected wildlife during the primitive weapon season. These rules cover hunting protected wildlife during the primitive weapon season established by the Department. The rifle must have a bore of at least .40 inches and use a spherical or conical projectile. Hunters may not use buck-and-ball loads, explosive bullets, or balls smaller than .40 caliber. During the deer season, hunters may use only a muzzle-loading rifle or bow. The Department may allow a .40-caliber-or-larger single-shot muzzle-loading pistol with a 40-grain minimum powder charge to deliver a final shot when needed. The rifle permission applies during the primitive weapon season established by the Department.

The provision lists mink, snapping turtle, raccoon, opossum, gray squirrel, otter, muskrat, red fox, rabbit, frog, deer, skunk, weasel, and beaver as game animals; the Bryant fox-squirrel is protected wildlife. The classification applies to the animals named in the provision.