Sidearms in the Archery Season

[sisu]

Who cares, people who are willing to shoot a deer or elk with a pistol while bowhunting are gonna do it no matter what. i personally would like to carry one,with the growing grizz problem up north. And with some of the wackos that live in the woods these days too.

Hate to pop your bubble but if you pull a hand gun on a "Grizz" you better be damn lucky or save the last round for yourself. There is a reason the Fish and Game people in Alaska carry a 12 ga with a short barrell. BTW the arrangement that the F & G use is in this order buck shot, buck shot, slug, slug, buck shot. This is Fish and Game not the Fish and Wildlife guys(they are really not called that any longer after King Murkowski decided to do away with the Brown Shirts.

[cohoho]

They are back, Brown Shirter for the AST (Alaska State Trooper), well just the shirt, they still will wear the blue trousers.  My buddy is the Captain for that side, now that good looking Gov Sarah brought them back into separate agencies again. Funding is their main issue to work through to get that side back to doing what they do best, F & G related issues.  A handgun in grizzly territory is for the owner sanity and a little false security, pepper spray is good, if the wind is right.  Slugs on a 12 gauge carried at Port arms at close range, seems to work also....  Seeing alot of folks buying the 454's, 500's and everyday .44's and watching them at the range shoot, I'd take those odds if I was a bear, add pressure, scared crapless and where the heck did I pack the gun.  I have been charged a couple times, once, when I had a rifle up and slightly lowered it get a better look at what was coming through the brush, it was becoming dusk and we were heading out to the river, I thought it was a Moose at first is why I lifted the gun to begin with, when Momma moved towards me alike a freight train, it was so quick, I couldn't even lift up on target, fired at the general direction from about ten foot, thank goodness it turned and went away, thrashing every tree in the woods and the two little ankle bitters were barking and grunting like dogs just behind a small rise. I didn't even come close on shoot....  Needless to say, I was alittle shaken by the time I got back to the boat.  My thoughts, if the bear really wants you, you will not have to react, but you might have time when he is chewing your freaking leg to blast him...  But never the less, I still carried a .44 with me at all times...  If want to have some fun before taking an Alaskan Adventure get the book called "Bear Attacks", don't you read it, but let your buddy, he'll be up listening to everything while you sleep like a baby...  Sort of a camp guard on automatic sentry..

[sisu]

I'm sure glad that Sarah Palin has brought some common sense back to Alaskan government.

[cohoho]

There was a bumper sticker going around Alaska stating  "I bet our governor is better looking than yours"  Wow!  Isn't that the truth....   

[Opportunist]

I googled her. Alaska's Governor needs to let her hair down and ditch the glasses. She'd be smokin' in a black neglige'!

I got sidetracked! I vote firearms carry in accordance with the Second ammendment rights!

Poachers Poach! What's that got to do with whether or not I pack a pistol while bowhunting. I understand the weak arguement about the enticement to shoot with a rifle and shove an arrow in the hole but don't buy it. I'm surprized this hasn't been changed by the game commission since it is clearly a violation of our rights. So it looks like the state legislature will finally do something about it. Whether or not Gregoire will sign it is another question.

 

[ICEMAN]

Alaska's Governor needs to let her hair down and ditch the glasses. She'd be smokin' in a black neglige'!  

 

Schwing! 

[spike]

a few years ago in Oregon i had an experience with meth cooks wile camping with my girlfriend needles to say from now on i will always pack when in the woods...(nothing like having a revolver hammer cocked outside youre tent and seeing someone with a mini 14 crouching through the wind screen on a tent zipper wile trying to act like your sleeping wile they move the batch at 1:00am)never again would rather pay a ticket than pay another price...

[ICEMAN]

Someone carrying a gun crouches to look into my tent in the middle of the night aint going to see another sunrise.

[Skyvalhunter]

How about a full moon?

[bankwalker]

Someone carrying a gun crouches to look into my tent in the middle of the night aint going to see another sunrise.

basicly...if i had a gun that is.

but during archery season...im just gonna keep my mouth shut lol. im not that dumb to take on a guy with a gun when all i have is a bow.

[MountainWalk]

just being sarcastic in a friendly way.......my my... we sure do have a lot of rambos around here.. even with a rifle,,, no way would i brace a bunch of meth cooks... seems like some folks WANT to shoot folks...when i bowhunt,, i do not carry.. i dont like the idea of packing either. im on a bowhunt, to hunt like the folks of old and because i love the romance of shooting a recurve bow.. a gun is just in the way.. i may be wrong

[Missing]

About 8 years ago I was elk hunting in the Yakima unit in about 2 1/2 feet of snow and about 2 miles from the truck, while I was heading back to the truck I found a large blood spray in the snow on the road and when I looked over the bank I was about 25' from a very irritated cat in the brush standing on what appeared to be a dead dear, the cat was screaming and hissing at me. I don't know how many of you have walked backwards in deep snow for 2 miles but it can be done, at that point I had been bowhunting for 12 years and had never considered packing a side arm since that day I have not hunted a single day with out one. I have not again felt I needed it, but I think about that day and if it were to occur again I would hate to not make it home because my 41 is hanging in the gun room. That's my story and my reason not that its right or wrong, but it is my decision.

[Red Dawg]

i dont blame you bro. that is a trip. i bet you did not even sink in the snow after that.

[ICEMAN]

  Wow, that would make a guy piss himself.

[DeKuma]

Who says man cannot fly?!  I would have been flying had I run into that!
Would have liked to put an arrow through that cat too though!