Dumb hunting regulations

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As a matter of fact they do look at power factor. To hunt with a cartridge from a handgun you must meet a specific minimum caliber AND 700 ft.lbs. of energy, and for a rifle you must meet 1200 ft.lbs. of energy.
What happened is a bunch of the counties were worried folks would shoot-out-of-safe, so they decided to ban cartridge rifles for deer hunting, but to keep shotguns. Simpler to simply say, "no cartridge rifles here". They also years ago for humane reasons banned buckshot from shotguns, AND banned the .410 slug.
They didn't look hard at muzzle loaders, nor at what a shotgun slug will do nor how far it will actually travel.

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Yes, I get that they have 'minimum' power levels (many states do), but it wasn't their intent to 'compare' one firearm to another was my point. Because if they had...they would have recognized their folly. 'Feel good' legislation without the benefit of research or understanding. All too common these days if you ask me.
 
In St. Cloud, Mn it's illegal to eat a hamburger on Sunday, so I can believe just about any dumb gov regulation. Its also illegal to cross the Wisconsin border with a chicken on your head. Doubt it's enforced.

I dont have a hard time believing what the politicians regulate or enforce, no matter how stupid it may be.

Disappointed. Will have to cross that one off my bucket list.
 
Page 2 somebody mentions turkey hunting hours, half hr before sunrise to noon.
That's the way it used to be here. Then it changed from ending at noon to sunset.

Even now, I hunt only til noon.
Reason?
Get out and let birds move in.

Would like to see the law change back, for the poor souls hunting public land.
 
In NC crow season is

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of each week. Crows may also be hunted on Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Independence Day; except when these days fall on a Sunday.

How can one not think that is a bit dumb. No bag limit....kill all you want. (Therefore not regulating any killing off of a species, not that it's possible with the crow) Just make sure it's not Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or if it is...make sure it's a specified holiday...and not one on sunday.
 
In NC crow season is

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of each week. Crows may also be hunted on Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Independence Day; except when these days fall on a Sunday.

How can one not think that is a bit dumb. No bag limit....kill all you want. (Therefore not regulating any killing off of a species, not that it's possible with the crow) Just make sure it's not Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or if it is...make sure it's a specified holiday...and not one on sunday.
Ha! Crestoncowboy, if there's a prize for the best post in a thread, I think you have it "in the bag." Crow hunting regulations in NC have to be the dumbest hunting regulations I've ever heard of. Do you have any idea how they came about?o_O:)
 
Not really. I'd like to say that I'm sure its rooted in some logic but I'm pretty skeptical. Maybe someone else on here has an idea? And most of us ignored them anyway growing up. We knew it was certain days but it was so trivial we didn't bother memorizing the days. We hunted on our land for whatever we felt the urge to hunt. Electronic calls were also banned for crow hunting, but that may not be the case now. I stopped shooting them after I grew up and got chickens, for the most part. They harrass the hawks/Falcons and eagles so I fed the crows until coyotes wiped the chickens out.
I live in a large county (430 sq miles) that only has one game warden at any time. They regulate fishing but very little else. At any given time there is a deer/car collision on the scanner so not much gets complained about unless it spotlighting or road hunting, and even then its allowed too often in my book. With the farmers and christmas trees I'd guess 15 % of the county has depredation permits (likely far more than that) so deer are killed year round but the numbers continue to climb. [Another dumb law is that a deer shot out of season via depredation, must be left to rot. Can't be consumed. Although usually the Hispanics from the tree farms usually eat them anyway. We figure its illegal for us to move them, not so much if a passerby "steals" one. ]
About the only time a game warden ever looked my way during hunting season, a friend and I were squirrel hunting a couple miles from my parents house. We killed a bunch and I was dressing them on the hood of the old junk mustang I was driving, smoking a cigarette when a warden pulled up and admired our kill we were so proud of. He asked our age and we told him. I was 13 or so, my friend is a year older. He said "well you know season starts tomorrow maybe after school you kill a few more" he laughed and left us be worried that we were going to Alcatraz or something. Never mentioned the underage driving/ smoking/ hunting/ hauling around a couple 12 guages/ etc. Wasn't as long ago as some would think. It would have been around the 90s.
 
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