Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?

[fishm@n]

Anybody know if you have a valid muzzy tag can you hunt with a bow rather than a muzzy during that season? It would seem like you could seeing it is an inferior weapon from a range standpoint.

Thanks

[NWWABOWHNTR]

no... you cannot do it.  You can use archery equipment in modern firearm or archery.  Must use Muzzy for muzzy season.

[robodad]

Look along the side of the season pages for "Hunting Method" and it will tell you what you can use for each season !! 

[fishm@n]

Yeah I saw that but it would seem you could use a lesser weapon like you can during Modern. Thanks for the replies

[Elkstuffer]

I agree with you fishm@n! Like everything else WDFW has to do with, it doesn't make any sense.

[lokidog]

Asked a warden this question, big fat "no".  Of course, half the time even the wardens don;t know the answer.... 

[NWWABOWHNTR]

Hunting Method:
Muzzleloader only. Muzzleloader
tag holders can only hunt during
muzzleloader seasons and must
hunt with muzzleloader equipment.
Muzzleloading equipment must meet
regulations on page 70.

[dreamingbig]

Like others said, you can not.  They do it to protect the muzzleloaders from archery hunters buying muzzleloader tags.  They have some really attractive opportunities but you have to use a smokepole.

[carpsniperg2]

i wish we had a late archery hunt here i would bow hunt for deer, but since we don't i muzzle load and like that. but with a 180 deer tag now i get to do all three and will spend about 50% of the time with smoke pole and 50% of the time with stick and string.

[fishm@n]

Like others said, you can not.  They do it to protect the muzzleloaders from archery hunters buying muzzleloader tags.  They have some really attractive opportunities but you have to use a smokepole.

I'm sure most of you know why I ask, muzzy season is generally much more favorable from a weather standpoint (cooler than early-mid Sept) and many times bulls are still actively rutting or responding to calls.  I just don't want to plunk down hundred$ on an ML and all the gear and become proficient with it since I already am with a bow.

They don't protect Modern in the same way.. I guess that is a tiny part of the reason it is such a zoo during Modern.

[bobcat]

I don't know... I don't recall ever seeing anybody hunting with a bow during modern firearm season.

[lokidog]

Bobcat, Weathergirl got her buck with the bow during modern rifle.... more of a challenge and firearm restricted area.

[bobcat]

Yeah, I wasn't saying people don't do it, just that it's not the reason modern firearm season is a "zoo" as the post above mine stated.

[boneaddict]

I do it all the time because I want the modern late tags versus the crap stuff archery gets, but would rather hunt with a bow.   I love th elooks I get when I haul a monster off the hill by all the modern guys.  Even have been turned in a couple times.

[O_mykiss]

Turned in for what? Hunting with a bow during Modern?

Don't people read the reg's?

[bobcat]

Don't people read the reg's?

No. Not most people.

[carpsniperg2]

  no they would rather get on here and ask