John S said:
Woody, in the flintlock season both the bow and the flintlock are legal to hunt deer with. In the archery season a rifle is an unlawful device to take deer no matter what the caliber. You may not think people would take a deer with the rifle, you would be greatly mistaken.
John,
I'm not trying to argue with you...I'm trying to get you and others to see atleast what I'm trying to get out and what a few others have been able to see and understand....
Archery/Early Muzzleloader season/small game season over lap...in those 3 season, you can take a bow and front stuffer out and set in the stand and decide to shoot with either the bow for a buck or the bow or front stuffer for a doe....
now, I really, TRUELY Understand, that there are those low lives out there that will use a .22 to shoot a deer....BUT, it doesn't matter if it is a legal season or out of season!
So, if 1 was to be a legal, and was a abideing hunter, WHY should they NOT be able to have a .22 for an over lapping small game season/early front stuffer season?
Your going to tell me that there is 0/ZERO guys out there that would not try thier best to shoot a buck during the over lap of archery and front stuffer season with a front stuffer and try their dangest to pass it off as a archery kill?
Come on John,...How long were you a WCO? and you never incountered something like that?
the Mentality is out there....does not matter if you came up against those types or not while you were a WCO....but they are out there....but yet making it legal to have a bow and front stuffer is A OK and would not see any pouched deer but to have a Front Stuffer and a Small Game firearm would?
Highly Doubt it!
If we can take a bow and front stuffer into the woods and hunt with it at the same time while those 2 seasons over lap....we should be able to take a front stuffer/small game firearm and be legal for deer and small game at the same time seeing 1 has to have 250 square inchs of FO on for both front stuffer deer and Small Game...but the law is only front stuffer and archery....
I would not even consider a 1 dollar bet that there is 0/ZERO Pouched deer from guys having a front stuffer and bow in hand at the same time and shooting a buck that is out of bow range but in front stuffer range!