Will you use Luminocks?

[JimmyHoffa]

My whole point is why be so against something that has no affect on the ability to harvest an animal. Why as Americans can we not make a simple choice like using a lighted nock on arrow without all this debate. what hell is going on with people that there has to be laws for every little aspect of our lives. There's enough non hunters out there fighting to stop us from hunting as it is. We don't need the hunters helping them out by putting all these unnecessary regulations in place because they don't won't or like something. It should be in the best interest of all hunters not just a few.

My opinion on this....  The people that don't want anything new in archery don't want the stuff because it might draw more people into the archery season.  Take lumenocks for example....might encourage 1% of the rifle/muzzy crowd to switch weapons...result archery is looked at more closely in respect to harvest then days are cut and antlerless reduced, etc. My thought is that some want to keep 'masses' away from archery and preventing newer technology is a way to do that---lasers/scopes/lumenocks/crossbows/locking bows/flashlights on bows.  That some want archery to be so difficult that only a few people will try it and they get the woods to themselves and long seasons that overlap the ruts.

[lokidog]

I can certainly see some people using them as a "tracer" arrow and taking shots that they might not otherwise take.  However, whether or not people choose to use them now that they are legal really is no indicator whatsoever on their ethics or abilities.

I don't like them being legal, but they are.  I'll no more look down on someone using them legally and within their abilities than I would expect someone to view my choice to shoot a cow where it's legal.

Shoot straight.

I have to disagree, people that are willing to take unethical shots will do so whether or not they can see where their arrow flies.  Archers who would not think of taking an unethical shot will not suddenly start taking shots that they would not have taken w/o a lighted nock.   It is about choice, just like using traditional or compound bows is a choice.

[TheHunt]

I am going to give them a try.  At dusk it is hard for me to see the impact on the animal.  I use white fletching and white wrap now it is helps ALOT!  But as I am getting more mature my eyes are not as young as they were it might help.

If that is the one thing that I use to validate a good hit than so be it for me.  You never know if your arrow hits a limb and moves up on an animal.  I think it would help me see the impact. 

So I am going to give it a try for those reasons only. 

[boneaddict]

Brady....deep breath!     You came out swinging.   They are legal now.   The question is will you use them or not.  You can say, Yes I am, or no I won't.   Pretty simple.   Not sure why you are aggressing....Do you like division?

[boneaddict]

Alwine....please reconsider.  I'd love to see that mule deer you are going to get this fall in the books.

[Special T]

First off, i think they were alwasy legal for small game, just not big game... Would i give them a try? maybe, But i would likely have both in my quiver if i did... I Keep a blunt in my quiver for grouse so why not a luminock for the doe at the end of the season, at dusk?  If i was going for a trophy mulie hunt then i'd leave it home.

[buckfvr]

not an ounce of interest here........

[BOWHUNTER45]

Me 2nd 

[Snapshot]

Correction, Boneaddict: They are not legal now (for big game). The exception to allow them is at this writing only a proposal. Let's be careful of inadvertently misleading the public by stating otherwise.

[boneaddict]

Good point.   I heard they were legal now.  I guess these are just proposals huh? 

[Snapshot]

That is correct. The link that atfulldraw put into his post that started this thread takes us to a pdf file that is entitled "PROPOSED RULE MAKING"

[pianoman9701]

I am going to give them a try.  At dusk it is hard for me to see the impact on the animal.  I use white fletching and white wrap now it is helps ALOT!  But as I am getting more mature my eyes are not as young as they were it might help.

If that is the one thing that I use to validate a good hit than so be it for me.  You never know if your arrow hits a limb and moves up on an animal.  I think it would help me see the impact. 

So I am going to give it a try for those reasons only.

You're fortunate they're calling you "mature". I'm the old fart.

[bobcat]

That is correct. The link that atfulldraw put into his post that started this thread takes us to a pdf file that is entitled "PROPOSED RULE MAKING"

Supposedly these are only proposals, but we should know from past experience that these so called proposals are already pretty much set in stone, by the time we, the public, get to see them. Although I do believe there have been some very rare exceptions to that rule.

[Tacomahunter]

Im going to buy a couple! Maybe use em on the spring turkey hunt!!

[sakoshooter]

I'll definitely be trying them out. Being able to pinpoint your shot on an animal at the critical moment is reason enough. Finding your arrow quickly after a passing thru and being able to identify the area hit by blood etc is another reason. Being able to see the animal traveling with the arrow sticking out of it when you otherwise wouldn't have been able to is another reason. Retrieving animals shot at the last legal shooting light is another good reason.