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Quote from: bullfisher on February 16, 2015, 08:46:36 PM Mechs will never be legal in WA. We have a no barb rule, a 40lb min hunt weight with a 300grn min arrow weight, and big tough animals like roosevelt elk. Most of todays expendables are not barbed. As long as they can rotate forward I see no reason to make them illegal. Doubtful I would ever shoot an elk with one, but my personal preference should have no bearing on legality. As I've posted before, I'd take a guy shooting a sharp expandable any day over a guy shooting a dull fixed blade, Toxic or an Atom.
Mechs will never be legal in WA. We have a no barb rule, a 40lb min hunt weight with a 300grn min arrow weight, and big tough animals like roosevelt elk.
Quote from: RadSav on February 16, 2015, 08:59:25 PMQuote from: bullfisher on February 16, 2015, 08:46:36 PM Mechs will never be legal in WA. We have a no barb rule, a 40lb min hunt weight with a 300grn min arrow weight, and big tough animals like roosevelt elk. Most of todays expendables are not barbed. As long as they can rotate forward I see no reason to make them illegal. Doubtful I would ever shoot an elk with one, but my personal preference should have no bearing on legality. As I've posted before, I'd take a guy shooting a sharp expandable any day over a guy shooting a dull fixed blade, Toxic or an Atom.I might try some this year at the house. My slick trick leaves a huge long cut just like those in the video of the rage. My fixed broad heads fly like darts if I tune my bow and arrow. I would think the mechs would fly better in wind and have less wind resistance while in flight.
They already re-wrote the law to allow mechanicals. It's in the proposals for the 2015-2017 hunting seasons.http://wdfw.wa.gov/about/regulations/2015/wsr_15-04-086.pdf
Quote from: bobcat on February 17, 2015, 07:29:58 AMThey already re-wrote the law to allow mechanicals. It's in the proposals for the 2015-2017 hunting seasons.http://wdfw.wa.gov/about/regulations/2015/wsr_15-04-086.pdfWow, im outta the loop. So if I read this correctly, it would be legal for someone to hunt elk with a 40lb bow, a 20 inch arrow weighing 300grns and any mechanical broadhead they choose? Am I interpreting that right?
I'm glad they're changing the rules in favor of more oppurtunities.
I sure see a bunch off them only going half way into elk on TV !
Also, in the old days that Rad refers to, most of us never had a pass thru but then again, a sharp broadhead lodged in the middle of the chest cavity does a lot os damage when the animal runs off. Kind of like an Eveready battery; keeps on cutting.