Hunterdad
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In my county, you can't use a rifle....shotgun only to hunt deer. But....I can use a T/C Contender handgun in .30/30. Never understood that.
The law here in Ohio that gets me even more than that. Is we can't deer hunt with a rifle even in a pistol round , But I can legally hunt squirrel and rabbits with a 460 weatherby??????I think it's dumb that we can hunt with handguns chambered in strait walled cartridges 357 caliber or larger with a minimum of at least a 5" barrel but not a rifle that's chambered in the same pistol legal calber:banghead:
You can bow hunt on Sunday, but you can't hunt with a gun on Sundays. That one irks me the most. But here, state laws are actually pretty great. It's local (county) regulations that drive me up the wall!
Here in CA you cannot have a centerfire sidearm on you while bowhunting. Of course, the law specifies centerfire so any rimfire round is OK.....??!!
Jason, I'd support striking down that Sunday law, any chance we can get it reversed by next Sunday?
Basically, they are saying,"You're going to get a ticket."Just try to understand Alabama's new law about the use of supplemental feeding during deer season. There's nothing like a clear cut law with no grey areas and no interpretation.
Basically it is legal to use "bait" so long as the bait is at least 100 yards from the hunter and is out of the "line of sight" of the hunter either by natural vegetation or terrain features. i understand this part as it keeps people from pouring a bag of corn behind a hay bale and claiming it is "out of sight".
However......it can still be considered "baiting" if the authorities determine that the feed in the area is being used to draw deer by the hunter. Excuse me! I can put a corn feeder in the middle of a pine thicket 250 yards away from my stand and in a place that is only visible from a helicopter and it is still possible, even likely, that a deer could walk past me on the way to the feeder.
Leaving a law up to that much "interpretation" is asinine.
I have used a 30-30 A.I. with trapper loads 113 cast bullet@1100 fps."The law here in Ohio that gets me even more than that. Is we can't deer hunt with a rifle even in a pistol round , But I can legally hunt squirrel and rabbits with a 460 weatherby??????"
My next squirrel rifle my be a 308 or 30-06
Or explained another way:I think it's dumb that we can hunt with handguns chambered in strait walled cartridges 357 caliber or larger with a minimum of at least a 5" barrel but not a rifle that's chambered in the same pistol legal calber
I live in maine. I dont like the sunday hunting law, i dont see how its going to hurt anything. The crossbow law is on there because they think its shoots like a rifle. Because of the trigger and stock
WHAT?What has never made any sense to me is the fact crossbows are prohibited during the muzzleloader season when modern muzzle loaders offer superior ballistics to many metallic cartridge rounds.
WHAT?
so you are telling me that I am more likely to kill an elk at 200 yards with a 50 caliber muzzle loader than I am with a 300 weatherby mag?
I'm sorry but that's preposterous.
even if you drop in standard muzzle loader ranges I would much rather take a 416grain hollow point cast bullet from a 45/70 at 50 yards than I would a 425gr fired from a 54 caliber muzzle loader.