Jason_W
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I've been reading up on crossbows, and most people familiar with them echo your conculsions.
Admittedly, it's the cool factor that attracts me to them more than their practicality.
Hunting laws that don't seem to be grounded in logic
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I've been reading up on crossbows, and most people familiar with them echo your conculsions.
Admittedly, it's the cool factor that attracts me to them more than their practicality.
That isn't what he said. He said some muzzle loaders were more effective than MANY metallic cartridges. Your 300 mag is clearly better than a .50 calber muzzle loader. But the muzzle loader would be more effective than a 22 Hornet, 25 ACP, or 9mm etc., which may be legal there.
98Redline
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In our special regulations areas of PA you are limited to shotgun only.
So a 3 1/2" fully rifled 12 ga slug gun shooting a 1 3/8 oz. slug at 1800+ fps is perfectly legal but a 44 magnum revolver with a 300gr slug at 1200 fps is not.
So a 3 1/2" fully rifled 12 ga slug gun shooting a 1 3/8 oz. slug at 1800+ fps is perfectly legal but a 44 magnum revolver with a 300gr slug at 1200 fps is not.
Sebastian the Ibis
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States should just sell ridiculous hunting permits as souvenirs. I'd buy a Florida Polar Bear, Unicorn or Chupacabra tag for $10.
Todd1700
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I have never understood why you can plant a corn field or a green patch and legally hunt deer over it. But a corn feeder is illegal. What's the moral or ethical difference? In all cases it's bait placed in a specific location to lure game animals into bow or gun range. Either all of them should be illegal or none at all.
I agree with this in reality but the law is probably based on the idea that many farmers plant crops on large portions of their land. If I couldn't hunt within 250 yards of corn or beans growing in a field then I couldn't hunt 5,000 acres my buddy has in Iowa.
As I said, I agree that MOST hunters(including myself) plant food plots strictly for the purpose of attracting wildlife for the purpose of shooting them. It seems that a one acre field of turnips and other greens planted in the middle of a pine thicket that just HAPPENS to have a box blind sitting next to it and serves no other agricultural purpose is the very definition of baiting. Heck I plant food plots in fire breaks because I have to harrow them anyway.
Reloadron
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Overall here in Ohio the ODNR Division of Wildlife - Hunting does a pretty good job of defining hunting rules and regulations. Sunday hunting is now permitted and has been for a good number of years. The No Sunday Hunting rules were archaic and denied working people time to hunt during limited seasons, like the deer gun season which is only a week long. Deer gun means a shotgun with a slug, no rifles for deer in Ohio because the place is open and flat in many areas.
Anyway, all the hunting rules and regulations are well spelled out on the DNR website and changes are quickly incorporated.
Ron
Anyway, all the hunting rules and regulations are well spelled out on the DNR website and changes are quickly incorporated.
Ron
Patocazador
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I already have a Wyoming Jackalope hunting license .. plus the jackalope I got.
ETXhiker
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In Texas, you can shoot feral hogs anytime, without a hunting license - as long as you leave the meat on the ground to rot. If you want to take it home and eat it, you need a hunting license. That one really frosts me. :banghead:
Wolfgang james
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Here in nys deer may be taken by any centerfire rifle. So I can use a 17rem but not a 22mag?
Huh? I can't find that one. Do you have a source? I DO see a minor conflict, though... The hunting regs http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/cs_bk_k0700_284_2013_2014.pdf page 76/77 show a license required for all, yet another source http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/outdoor-annual/licenses/hunting-licenses-and-permits shows hogs as an exception, neither mentions a difference in license whether leaving or taking them. I'm no regular hunter, but do try to follow the laws and there's some room for error between the 2 guidelines.
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Sounds like rifle country to me!
I've never really understood the shotgun only states. Most hunting accidents happen because a) an idiot shoots somebody after "mistaking" them for a deer or b) an idiot shoots a guy standing next to him because his finger was on the trigger when it shouldn't have been. Alcohol is usually involved.
Turkey hunting is by far the most dangerous type of hunting despite using shotguns with birdshot...
HB
Reloadron
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When I mentioned open and flat which would be ideal for rifle I failed to mention a dense population.
Personally while I have hunted Ohio with hand gun I always would head to West Virginia for deer season. During my younger days I enjoyed the mountains and my rifles for deer hunting. Haven't hunted in years since my hunting buddy and dear friend in WV passed away. Getting old to hump mountains too.
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