Here in michigan we can SHINE deer Up Until 11p.m. all through the year, except for the Month of NOVEMBER, NO SHINING THEN...

I got stopped by the State police , I KID YOU NOT, at 11:02p.m., 2 mins past deadline , they searched us (patted up down) and my vehical , ran my plates and everything , they must have been following us..

Oh well, that was a few years ago....

Yep, it's very illegal here in IL.

Not a story I'm overly proud of...but I was ticketed for shining a light in WV about 15 years ago. We were going hunting, weekend before the gun season opener, it was 10pm, and were passing through a state park. Nobody was around, so we shined one of those hand held spotlights into the field. No bad intentions...

Well...I bounced the light off a house. It was the park rangers house, who called the CO, who wrote us tickets and took our guns. We had to go get them the next day. $160 and no record of it...

My mistake...no excuses. Again, we weren't shooting, and had no intentions of doing so. We were just being stupid. Haven't done it since.

So, to make a long story short...In WV it's illegal no matter what the deal is. Guns or not.

I live in Ohio, and I believe it's also illegal here.

BY THE WAY,, I meant without any weapons....

otherwise is illegal as HELL

We make shine all the time in Kentucky. My father and my fathers father and his father before him. However it's not legal. Got to keep it on the down low.

Here in N.Y. it is legal as long as you stay 500 feet away from any dwelling.

yep like jzarr said cant do it in illinois[:'(]

you are allow to in PA during the off seasons as long as you don't have a weapon in the car. i was out last night and saw like a dozen deer at the farm we hunt. my one question is that you are allowed to hunt raccoons and coyotes and stuff at night with spot lights. so if you did have a gun for some reason, could you just say you were hunting them? there is alot of laws like that in PA that make no sense to[&:]

in illinois are you allowed to shine a q-beam at a deer just to watch it if you dont have a weapon?

I have never ever spot lighted a field. I have had to practice 3 point turns to keep up with my Drivers Ed Education. I might have taken my time because of distractions but I assure you ocsifer I was only turning around.