Remember 1 hour before and after last light!
Big difference between lighting, as in shining a light onto the deer, and illuminated. The illuminated reticle helps you see the reticle, not the deer. It's no different to checking your watch to see what time it is and the hands glowing or those that smoke with the tip of the cigarette glowing.
Stan
ANY artificial lighting AID to HELP with Shooting a DEER is "ILLEGAL"
stalkerboydy
Where exactly are you looking in the Law?
Under Section 3 of the Deer Act (1991) "any person takes or intentionally kills any deer between the expiry of the first hour after sunset and the beginning of the last hour before sunrise, he shall be guilty of an offence" but it has nothing to say about use of artificial aids such as illuminated reticles?
It's not in the 2007 Regulatory Reform either, so I'm interested to know where this is defined?
willie_gunn
p.s. No you haven't found IT Willie (per your edit above). Unless I'm very much mistaken the rules you quote apply to Schedule 6 listed animals. Deer are not on that list.
Tamus - I was quoting Section 1, Para 11 2(c). I thought these applied to all animals, not just those on Schedule 6, though I stand to be corrected
See also the BASC website, under Prohibited Methods of Taking/Killing Wildlife (including game) on the following page: http://www.basc.org.uk//en/departments/game-and-gamekeeping/game-shooting/shooting-seasons.cfm
Interestingly the BASC website states that “Illuminating device” may include laser-type sighting devices. By this I take it they mean the "red dot" type of laser sights that project a red dot onto the target?
willie_gunn
Use of any device for illuminating a target for all birds except feral pigeons and for all mammals listed on Schedule 6 (Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981)
“Illuminating device” may include laser-type sighting devices