Shooting grouse with side arm while bow hunting

[TeacherMan]

So since it is legal to carry a side arm while bow hunting this year can you shoot grouse with that side arm. I have not looked into it, I would guess you cant but it sure would be nice if you could. I always see them out bow hunting and 22 shorts or CB caps are nice and quiet and work fine at 15 feet. They are a lot more accurate than my wrist rocket to 

Second part of this question can I legally have a 22, 17hmr, or shot gun in the car to bird hunt with. I'm not talking about walking around in the woods with it but say on the way into my bowhunting area and I see a grouse can I shoot it with a gun. I don't have both weapons out of the vehicle at the same time. In September its great to be able to bow hunt in the morning and drive around at 9 ish and shoot a few grouse.

thanks

Chris

[jackelope]

why not shoot them with the bow?
i carry 1 arrow with a judo point just for that purpose.
and it's not legal yet  either...just a proposal, right?

[TeacherMan]

I do shoot them with a bow all the time, it usually costs me about 12 bucks a bird  I used a good dozen arrows the last year I bow hunted on forest chickens, I can't help myself. I never seem to be able to find my arrow. And yes you are correct it is just a proposal.

[sisu]

Teacherman Ya gotta watch this video and kill grouse this way.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii0[/youtube]

[bobcat]

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be legal to shoot grouse with a handgun while bow hunting. It will be legal to carry the handgun, why not use it if an opportunity presents itself.

[billythekidrock]

This is the one reason why I would not support sidearms during archery season. It started that everyone wanted them for protection, but you can be their will be "hunting" with them. I wouldn't want to be stalking a herd or worse, a solitary buck, and then have someone pop off a couple rounds at a grouse nearby.

I wish the proposal stated "for protection only".

[GoldTip]

This is the one reason why I would not support sidearms during archery season. It started that everyone wanted them for protection, but you can be their will be "hunting" with them. I wouldn't want to be stalking a herd or worse, a solitary buck, and then have someone pop off a couple rounds at a grouse nearby.

I wish the proposal stated "for protection only".

And the same thing couldn't happen right now with someone shooting a shotgun or 22 while out grouse hunting instead?

[Roper]

Page 21 of the regulations states:

Forest grouse may not be killed with
any rifle or handgun 24 caliber or
larger, or shotgun containing slugs or
buckshot, during modern firearm deer
or elk seasons unless appropriate
deer or elk tags are in the hunter's
possession. Forest grouse may be
taken with shotguns as well as firearms
smaller than 24 caliber during
the entire grouse hunting season.

[TeacherMan]

Teacherman Ya gotta watch this video and kill grouse this way.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii0[/youtube]

That is one of the best videos I've ever seen. That was some funny stuff. Good idea for grouse.

[rainshadow1]

Been a long time for me, might get back into it this year, but I always had a blunt with a junker arrow attached to it. Great grouse medicine!

[jackelope]

Page 21 of the regulations states:

Forest grouse may not be killed with
any rifle or handgun 24 caliber or
larger, or shotgun containing slugs or
buckshot, during modern firearm deer
or elk seasons unless appropriate
deer or elk tags are in the hunter's
possession. Forest grouse may be
taken with shotguns as well as firearms
smaller than 24 caliber during
the entire grouse hunting season.

which is all well and good, and a law most people are not familiar with, but we are talking about archery season, not modern firearm season.


i also carry a junker arrow too, not my good ones. i have 2 different models of arrows that shoot pretty much the same, so i take one of the cheapo's with the judo point.

[FALFire]

This is the one reason why I would not support sidearms during archery season. It started that everyone wanted them for protection, but you can be their will be "hunting" with them. I wouldn't want to be stalking a herd or worse, a solitary buck, and then have someone pop off a couple rounds at a grouse nearby.

I wish the proposal stated "for protection only".

Ya know, this statement makes no sense. I don't hunt game with a bow but I have hunted deer and elk with a rifle for 40 years. I sometimes have to wait for the deer to slowly wander out of my shooting lane at my house so I can continue blasting away. Seldom do gunshots scare big game, what gets them all excited and ready to un-ass the area is movement.
No slam here to BTKR but I have found that deer and elk jsut don't seem to get too excited over that stuff. How many times have we all here seen where a hunter will miss with the first three of four rounds to finally connect on the 5th or sometimes 6th round and the deer just stand there looking around. That very thing happened to me last season while my neighbors kid was hunting deer. I don't buy the "Don't let guns out in the woods when bow hunting" scam. I'm happy to hear that the game dept. finally removed their heads from their hemroid infested asses on this issue.

[Missing]

To answer th other part of the question, I talked the game department and you are considered in the field once you leave your vehicle. The reason I asked the question was I archery hunt for elk and I carry my 6mm and calling stuff in my truck during late season in case I run across fresh kitty tracks. they told me that was allowed.

[billythekidrock]

To answer th other part of the question, I talked the game department and you are considered in the field once you leave your vehicle. The reason I asked the question was I archery hunt for elk and I carry my 6mm and calling stuff in my truck during late season in case I run across fresh kitty tracks. they told me that was allowed.

That is going to depend on the game agent. I have heard too many stories about "hassles" when archery hunting with a rifle in camp.