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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: fishm@n on April 24, 2010, 12:09:46 PM

Title: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: fishm@n on April 24, 2010, 12:09:46 PM: 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
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on April 24, 2010, 12:30:17 PM: no... you cannot do it. You can use archery equipment in modern firearm or archery. Must use Muzzy for muzzy season.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: robodad on April 24, 2010, 12:35:52 PM: Look along the side of the season pages for "Hunting Method" and it will tell you what you can use for each season !! ;)
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: fishm@n on April 24, 2010, 12:42:36 PM: Yeah I saw that but it would seem you could use a lesser weapon like you can during Modern. Thanks for the replies
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: Elkstuffer on April 24, 2010, 07:59:42 PM: I agree with you fishm@n! Like everything else WDFW has to do with, it doesn't make any sense.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: lokidog on April 24, 2010, 09:12:20 PM: Asked a warden this question, big fat "no". Of course, half the time even the wardens don;t know the answer.... :bash:
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on April 24, 2010, 09:19:59 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: dreamingbig on April 26, 2010, 08:56:22 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 26, 2010, 09:42:27 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: fishm@n on April 26, 2010, 11:50:15 AM: Quote from: dreamingbig on April 26, 2010, 08:56:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: bobcat on April 26, 2010, 12:03:35 PM: I don't know... I don't recall ever seeing anybody hunting with a bow during modern firearm season.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: lokidog on April 26, 2010, 12:37:52 PM: Bobcat, Weathergirl got her buck with the bow during modern rifle.... more of a challenge and firearm restricted area.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: bobcat on April 26, 2010, 12:40:00 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: boneaddict on April 26, 2010, 12:44:49 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: O_mykiss on April 27, 2010, 01:50:48 PM: Turned in for what? Hunting with a bow during Modern?

Don't people read the reg's?
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: bobcat on April 27, 2010, 01:51:30 PM: Quote from: O_mykiss on April 27, 2010, 01:50:48 PM
Don't people read the reg's?

No. Not most people.
Title: Re: Legal to hunt with a bow during muzzy season?
Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 27, 2010, 05:22:05 PM: :yeah: no they would rather get on here and ask :chuckle: :bash: