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BOW HUNTING TIME LINE EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE

 

  • 1936    Wisconsin opens the fist US bow hunting season

 

  • 1945    Yugoslavian republic Serbia regulates hunting with bow and arrow.

 

  • 1967    Denmark issues personal permits to bow hunters

 

  • 1986    Portugal legalizes hunting with bow and arrow

 

  • 1989    Zimbabwe made it possible to hunt with bow and arrow on special permit

 

  • 1992    Lithuania legalises all hunting with bow and arrow

 

  • 1993    Finland formalises a long period of unregulated bow hunting

 

  • 1993    Hungary legalises all hunting with bow and arrow.

 

  • 1995    France regulates hunting with bow and arrow

 

  • 1995    Botswana legalises bow hunting for plains game

 

  • 1997    Spain makes hunting with bow and arrow possible

 

  • 1998    Namibia legalises bow hunting for plains game

 

  • 1999    Zimbabwe changes the regulation for bow hunting

 

  • 1999    Denmark regulates bow hunting for roedeer and lesser game

 

  • 2003    France restructures the regulations for bow hunting allowing shorter bows and release aid.

 

  • 2003    Finland changes the regulation so roedeer and beaver can be hunted with bow and arrow

 

  • 2005    Tanzania legalises hunting with bow and arrow

 

  • 2006    Aland legalises hunting with bow

 

  • 2007    South Africa makes new regulation for hunting with bow and arrow

 

  • 2008    Denmark makes the formal change in the law to legalise Bow hunting

 

  • 2008    France eases regulations for foreign bow hunters as well as young bow hunters

 

  • 2009    Bulgaria legalizes all hunting with bow and arrow
 

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