State law would allow hunting from vehicles

A proposed Tennessee wildlife agency rule change to benefit disabled hunters would allow hunting from stationary vehicles on private land.

Assistant enforcement chief Steve Nifong said the proposal on the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Commission agenda for a meeting starting today would not affect the state's existing ban on hunting from public roads and property, and a ban on hunting from moving vehicles.

Nifong said the change would expand an exemption from the ban on hunting from parked all-terrain vehicles or cars or trucks on private property. Currently only people who are "100 percent confined to a wheelchair" are exempt.

He said the change would "allow anyone to hunt from a vehicle" that is parked on private property where the hunter has permission to be.