State rankings
Spear Hunting Legal States
Spear Hunting Legal States: compare 51 US states on 2 metrics.
Spear Hunting Legality
2 values across 51 entries
Data
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51 states
Alabama | Legal | Legal in most cases |
Alaska | Illegal | — |
Arizona | Illegal | — |
Arkansas | Illegal | — |
California | Illegal | — |
Colorado | Illegal | — |
Connecticut | Illegal | — |
Delaware | Illegal | — |
| Illegal | — | |
Florida | Illegal | — |
Georgia | Illegal | — |
Hawaii | Legal | Hawaii allows spear hunting for wild pigs, wild goats, and wild sheep. |
Idaho | Illegal | — |
Illinois | Illegal | — |
Indiana | Illegal | — |
Iowa | Illegal | — |
Kansas | Illegal | — |
Kentucky | Illegal | — |
Louisiana | Illegal | — |
Maine | Illegal | — |
Maryland | Illegal | — |
Massachusetts | Illegal | — |
Michigan | Illegal | — |
Minnesota | Illegal | — |
Mississippi | Illegal | — |
Missouri | Illegal | — |
Montana | Illegal | — |
Nebraska | Legal | Nebraska permits spear hunting for antelope, deer, elk, mountain sheep or turkey, although a spear cannot contain poison or a "stupefying chemical" or have an explosive tip. |
Nevada | Illegal | — |
New Hampshire | Illegal | — |
New Jersey | Illegal | — |
New Mexico | Illegal | — |
New York | Illegal | — |
North Carolina | Illegal | — |
North Dakota | Illegal | — |
Ohio | Illegal | — |
Oklahoma | Legal | Allowed for frog hunting and other specific small game |
Oregon | Illegal | — |
Pennsylvania | Illegal | — |
Rhode Island | Illegal | — |
South Carolina | Illegal | — |
South Dakota | Illegal | — |
Tennessee | Illegal | — |
Texas | Illegal | — |
Utah | Illegal | — |
Vermont | Illegal | — |
Virginia | Illegal | — |
Washington | Illegal | — |
West Virginia | Illegal | — |
Wisconsin | Illegal | — |
Wyoming | Illegal | — |
Quick answers
- Where does this spear hunting legal states data come from?
- Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Fermented Adventure; AverageOutdoorsman; Washington Post; PrecisionOutdoors.

















































