1.2relating to game and fish; modifying legal firearms use in shotgun use area;
1.3amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 97B.318, subdivision 1.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 97B.318, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.6    Subdivision 1. Shotgun use area. During the regular firearms season in the shotgun
1.7use area, only legal shotguns loaded with single-slug shotgun shells, legal muzzle-loading
1.8long guns, legal rifles and carbines chambered for black powder cartridges, and legal
1.9handguns may be used for taking deer. Legal shotguns include those with rifled barrels.
1.10The shotgun use area is that portion of the state lying within the following described
1.11boundary: Beginning on the west boundary of the state at the northern boundary of Clay
1.12County; thence along the northern boundary of Clay County to State Trunk Highway
1.13(STH) 32; thence along STH 32 to STH 34; thence along STH 34 to Interstate Highway
1.1494 (I-94); thence along I-94 to County State-Aid Highway (CSAH) 40, Douglas County;
1.15thence along CSAH 40 to CSAH 82, Douglas County; thence along CSAH 82 to CSAH 22,
1.16Douglas County; thence along CSAH 22 to CSAH 6, Douglas County; thence along CSAH
1.176 to CSAH 14, Douglas County; thence along CSAH 14 to STH 29; thence along STH 29
1.18to CSAH 46, Otter Tail County; thence along CSAH 46, Otter Tail County, to CSAH 22,
1.19Todd County; thence along CSAH 22 to U.S. Highway 71; thence along U.S. Highway 71
1.20to STH 27; thence along STH 27 to the Mississippi River; thence along the east bank of
1.21the Mississippi River to STH 23; thence along STH 23 to STH 95; thence along STH 95 to
1.22U.S. Highway 8; thence along U.S. Highway 8 to the eastern boundary of the state; thence
1.23along the east, south, and west boundaries of the state to the point of beginning.