« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2010, 03:05:02 PM »
You need the license, and the Hunter Safety Course, in CA.
It is legal to take small game under normal rules in CA with air guns. I am not an expert on all the fine print, but ground squirrel and jackrabbit are pretty much open season as long as you have the above pre-requesites.
Lead free is kind of a gray arearegarding thecondor zones. You need to go here
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/condor/and figure it out. While non-firearms are specifically exempted in some print, like in Ft. Hunter-Liggett, there are proposals to include the word "pellet" and to change the verbiage to "barrel" instead of "firearm". This is obviously targets airguns but I don't believe this is law.
Look at the terminology here. Remember that "pellet" is used by many to refer to shotgun pellets, not us. But when they get down to "this includes", everything listed is powder-burning.
The Commission has defined projectiles so that the prohibited bullets and other
projectiles can be understood. A “projectile” is defined as any bullet, ball, sabot, slug, buckshot or other device which is expelled from a firearm through a barrel by force.
Additionally, for hunting nongame, projectiles include “shot” and “pellets”; lead in
these projectiles is prohibited as well.
It will be illegal to use any projectile that contains more than 1 percent lead for hunting
big game or nongame within the affected area. This includes centerfire as well as blackpowder/
muzzle-loader, and rimfire projectiles.
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