Non-Toxic Shot & Non-Toxic-Shot-Only-Areas
NON-TOXIC SHOT
Kansas requires non-toxic shot for hunting ALL migratory game birds except dove and woodcock. This includes ducks, geese, coots, mergansers, rails, sandhill cranes, and snipe. Legal shot is steel, bismuth-tin, tungsten-polymer, tungsten-iron, tungsten matrix, tungsten-nickle-iron, tungsten-ironnickel- tin, and steel shot coated with copper, nickel, zinc chromate, or zinc chloride.
It is illegal to possess lead shot while hunting waterfowl or hunting in a Non-Toxic-Shot-Only area. “Possession" means that lead shot cannot be in a hunter’s gun, pockets, or in reach while in the process of hunting. Lead shot left in a vehicle is not considered “in possession.”
NON-TOXIC-SHOT-ONLY AREAS
In these areas, non-toxic shot is the only shotgun load allowed, whether ducks, upland game, or other small game are being hunted.
- Benedictine Bottoms Wildlife Area
- Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area
- Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge
- Herron Playa Wildlife Area
- Isabel Wetlands Wildlife Area
- Jamestown Wildlife Area
- Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge
- Marais des Cygnes NWR
- Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area
- McPherson Wetlands Wildlife Area
- Neosho Wildlife Area
- Otter Creek Wildlife Area
- Quivira NWR
- Slate Creek Wildlife Area
- Stein Playa Wildlife Area
- Texas Lake Wildlife Area
- Wild Turkey Playa Wildlife Area
- other areas as posted
NOTE: Birds such as pelicans, cormorants, grebes, herons, gulls, and shorebirds not listed in this brochure are illegal to take or possess under federal and state law.
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