Sidearms in the Archery Season

[cabin308]

CP is right, also the barrel must be minimum of four inches and 24 cal or larger centerfire during modern season.

[bankwalker]

There is no restriction on using semi-auto handguns for hunting in modern season.

hmmm thats not what i was told by 2 game wardens last season and when i called olympia that night to check.
all 3 that i talked to said that only revolver style handguns are legal to hunt with. i made the arguement that its not listed in the regs and they still said that its not legal.

well thats a good example of the laws saying one thing and the wardens and crap making their own rules as they go.

[bankwalker]

CP is right, also the barrel must be minimum of four inches and 24 cal or larger centerfire during modern season.

yeah i just looked and it says nothing about semi autos or revolvers...

i just love our wdfw and what they say is or isnt legal. idk the point in even having a regs book anymore 

[CP]

A lot of times they tell you what they want the rules to be, not what the rules really are.   

[cabin308]

How true.    The WDFW is full of one contradiction after another....

[bankwalker]

oh yeah aint that the truth.

[Palmer]

The regs do not have all of the laws in  them and state that you need to look up the wac and educate yourself on the law without exception. 
However, having said that, the state shall make no law that contradicts the constitution.  The trouble with that is you have to challenge the law of no sidearms during archery season.  Good luck on spending all your resources taking this law all the way to the supreme court although you would have your name on it, "Palmer vs. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON."

[bankwalker]

The regs do not have all of the laws in  them and state that you need to look up the wac and educate yourself on the law without exception. 
However, having said that, the state shall make no law that contradicts the constitution.  The trouble with that is you have to challenge the law of no sidearms during archery season.  Good luck on spending all your resources taking this law all the way to the supreme court although you would have your name on it, "Palmer vs. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON."

the reason the state can make that no sidearm law is due to hunting not being a right. though its tough law to enforce. thats according to my buddies dad (laywer) who has faught a couple cases like that i guess.

my one and ONLY reason for not having a sidearm with me is due to the hassle. and im poor and couldnt afford to fight it in court.

[heavy hauler]

i will not give up constitutional rights because of the weapon i choose to hunt with in this state(or any other).

[Palmer]

I'm talking about the right to bear arms at any time even while exercising the privelege to hunt.

During muzzy or Archery season it is, in my opinion, unconstitutional for the state to declare no sidearms while hunting during Archery or muzzy if it that is in the regs as well.  But of course only the supreme court has the ultimate decision on such matters.

[River]

I hunt every archery season.  I carry a side arm.  I see what is out there, and it isn't just the critters.  It seems there is another agenda going on here for the ones that say we should not.  If someone is going to be poaching, growing, trespassing, stealing, hiding, or whatever, they probably don't give a damn what you or anyones idea of regulation should be.

[rasbo]

I always carried a handgun well concealed will archery hunting,I also had a cwp.the gun was for people not critters..

[dbllunger]

Should be allowed to as it is called the 2nd Ammendment.  That means our founding fathers thought it was the second most important thing for this country right behind freedom of speach.  Both seem to be getting taken if you don't have a liberal view to propogate.

[jae]

I say carry the gun. I personally have found a pot grow operation during modern rifle season, and had I been hunting bow, I would have been facing off with drug growers. I would carry. Some laws are made to be broken (never thought i would hear myself say that    ) but your personal defense trumps state law in my opinion... 

+1

[bankwalker]

i was talking to a buddie warden about this subject as well the other day. he told me we have a better chance getting the indians to stop hunting "public" land then to get a law passed to carry a sidearm during archery season.

i told him the 3 very close cougar encounters ive had during archery season. and he just laughed it off. and said that its gonna take more then complaining to change said law. its gonna take a death and still that is not enough...that he has been trying to get that law changed ever sence he started on the force and has gotten no farther then any of us have on this subject.

we need to get people in charge that actually hunt, and want to make a difference for the hunter and the animals.

its to easy for companies or organizations to pay off the wdfw to get laws the way they are. and guess what we still buy our tags every year and put up with the *censored*...

we need to boycot hunting and fishing. plain and simple.