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Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: Evoac05 on July 16, 2011, 07:20:12 PM

Title: Buying a deer tag? Help!
Post by: Evoac05 on July 16, 2011, 07:20:12 PM: Hi everyone, I had a question and wondered if anyone had an answer. I haven't decided if I am going to do modern or archery and wondered if there was a way to buy a deer tag and try hunting archery and if I had no luck, that I could also hunt modern. Can I buy one tag that would
allow me to hunt both ways for one deer? Or do I have to buy two tags and only get one deer or do I just have to pick between archery or modern? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Post by: DoubleJ on July 16, 2011, 07:24:22 PM: Sorry but no. You get one shot at it. One tag only, archery or modern. Choose wisely :tup:
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Post by: marty on July 16, 2011, 07:25:43 PM: :yeah:
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Post by: D-Rock425 on July 16, 2011, 08:16:51 PM: Get the archery tag.
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Post by: YellowDog on July 16, 2011, 08:17:08 PM: The only way to do what you are wanting to do is to buy a modern firearm deer tag. You can hunt the MODERN FIREARM DEER SEASON DATES with a bow and if you aren't successful or don't like it you can pick up your gun and continue to hunt the MODERN FIREARM DEER SEASON DATES. Read the Hunting Method rules on the right side of pag 17 of the regs. Then read them again to make sure you know what it means. Then if you decide to try this, remember that you can only hunt the season dates on page 17. DO NOT hunt the dates on page 17 with a rifle.
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Post by: YellowDog on July 16, 2011, 08:18:09 PM: Oh yeah, remember to wear your hunter orange whether you are carrying a bow or a gun during those seasons.
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Post by: MP123 on July 16, 2011, 08:25:35 PM: Quote from: YellowDog on July 16, 2011, 08:17:08 PM
The only way to do what you are wanting to do is to buy a modern firearm deer tag. You can hunt the MODERN FIREARM DEER SEASON DATES with a bow and if you aren't successful or don't like it you can pick up your gun and continue to hunt the MODERN FIREARM DEER SEASON DATES. Read the Hunting Method rules on the right side of pag 17 of the regs. Then read them again to make sure you know what it means. Then if you decide to try this, remember that you can only hunt the season dates on page 17. DO NOT hunt the dates on page 17 with a rifle.

This is correct. But read it closely just like all the regs...
Title: Re: Buying a deer tag? Help!
Post by: YellowDog on July 16, 2011, 08:27:43 PM: Quote from: YellowDog on July 16, 2011, 08:17:08 PM
The only way to do what you are wanting to do is to buy a modern firearm deer tag. You can hunt the MODERN FIREARM DEER SEASON DATES with a bow and if you aren't successful or don't like it you can pick up your gun and continue to hunt the MODERN FIREARM DEER SEASON DATES. Read the Hunting Method rules on the right side of pag 17 of the regs. Then read them again to make sure you know what it means. Then if you decide to try this, remember that you can only hunt the season dates on page 17. DO NOT hunt the dates on page 17 with a rifle.
The last reference to page 17 should have been page 18.
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Post by: mulehunter on July 16, 2011, 08:29:43 PM: How do u pass without taking hunting education class before buy License. Oh I see u must be birth under 1972 ??

Ya u must choose one on which weapon u want for Deer.

Mulehunter.
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Post by: YellowDog on July 16, 2011, 08:46:06 PM: Quote from: mulehunter on July 16, 2011, 08:29:43 PM
How do u pass without taking hunting education class before buy License. Oh I see u must be birth under 1972 ??

Ya u must choose one on which weapon u want for Deer.

Mulehunter.
Not sure what a hunter education class has to do with the question?
I am sure that my answer is correct.
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Post by: DoubleJ on July 16, 2011, 10:16:36 PM: I think he was getting at the fact that this is covered in hunters ed and that the OP should not be buying a license before he learns this in a hunters ed class
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Post by: YellowDog on July 16, 2011, 10:27:07 PM: Quote from: DoubleJ on July 16, 2011, 10:16:36 PM
I think he was getting at the fact that this is covered in hunters ed and that the OP should not be buying a license before he learns this in a hunters ed class
I thought that mighe be what he meant. However, there are a lot of "hunters" out there that don't know a lot of important regulations and least the OP asked the question before findning out the hard way. I have heard a lot of people think they can buy an archery tag and hunt the archery seasons and if they aren't successful hunt the modern firearm season with a rifle because of some mystical "lesser weapon" claim whereby they bought a tag for a lesser weapon (archery) so they can hunt all the seasons. :bdid:
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Post by: Evoac05 on July 16, 2011, 10:50:34 PM: Thanks Yellowdog for all your help. Thanks to everyone else as well.