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Muzzleloader Hunting
Is this where muzzleloading is going?!
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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2705942" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Since I still hunt here I'll give you a recap,</p><p></p><p>Bow season runs all October till the third week in November then closed for bear and deer rifle seasons. Long, recurve and compound all legal. There was a huge fight over making crossbows legal around 2009 but airbows and multi shot crossbows are not legal. No restrictions on sights or scopes. Reopens after Christmas for 3 more weeks.</p><p></p><p>Never had a pistol season but we do have an early muzzleloader season for doe only the third week in October, any type of muzzleloader including smokeless is legal. Archers are too focused on killing bucks and not does so they needed to bump the early season doe harvest up. The late season after Christmas is still flintlock only and you can take a buck or doe for 3 weeks.</p><p></p><p>2 week any deer season after Thanksgiving, huge fight over the opener getting moved from Monday to Saturday and opening 3 Sundays a year for hunting in 2019 and 2020. </p><p></p><p>They ditched the buck only rifle season around 2000 and made it buck or doe and put in antler restrictions of 3 on one side so spikes and 4 points are not legal to shoot. After a decade of slowly increasing hunter numbers they brought back the buck only season for the first week in 2014 and proceeded to hemorrhage 90,000 hunters (roughly 10%) in the 5 years after the change so they switched back to concurrent in 2019 to try to stop the bleeding. </p><p> </p><p>Doe license are WMU based and you can get up to 6 at a time depending upon their availability but we are still a one buck state.</p><p></p><p>Firearms are still pretty much the same but they did legalize the use of semi auto rifles in 2017 after banning them in 1907. However the PGC only allows them for small game and varmints, all big game is still banned from using semi autos.</p><p></p><p>Rifle and a buck tag is included with the license for $20 but Archery, muzzleloader, bear, doe tags and fur bearers are all separate. Total license cost with 6 doe tags is roughly $130 to hunt all seasons and animals.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Take smokeless out of the equation and they are, just look at the below from top to bottom, Full power .45 Cal smokeless, Mid level .45 cal smokeless, .50 cal inline, .50 cal caplock.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]424780[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Out past 200 you get substantial drop and lose your effective energy on any of the .50 cal muzzleloaders. The only ones really shooting at range are the .45 cal smokeless builds specifically designed to shoot that far and owned by a very small portion of hunters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2705942, member: 36999"] Since I still hunt here I’ll give you a recap, Bow season runs all October till the third week in November then closed for bear and deer rifle seasons. Long, recurve and compound all legal. There was a huge fight over making crossbows legal around 2009 but airbows and multi shot crossbows are not legal. No restrictions on sights or scopes. Reopens after Christmas for 3 more weeks. Never had a pistol season but we do have an early muzzleloader season for doe only the third week in October, any type of muzzleloader including smokeless is legal. Archers are too focused on killing bucks and not does so they needed to bump the early season doe harvest up. The late season after Christmas is still flintlock only and you can take a buck or doe for 3 weeks. 2 week any deer season after Thanksgiving, huge fight over the opener getting moved from Monday to Saturday and opening 3 Sundays a year for hunting in 2019 and 2020. They ditched the buck only rifle season around 2000 and made it buck or doe and put in antler restrictions of 3 on one side so spikes and 4 points are not legal to shoot. After a decade of slowly increasing hunter numbers they brought back the buck only season for the first week in 2014 and proceeded to hemorrhage 90,000 hunters (roughly 10%) in the 5 years after the change so they switched back to concurrent in 2019 to try to stop the bleeding. Doe license are WMU based and you can get up to 6 at a time depending upon their availability but we are still a one buck state. Firearms are still pretty much the same but they did legalize the use of semi auto rifles in 2017 after banning them in 1907. However the PGC only allows them for small game and varmints, all big game is still banned from using semi autos. Rifle and a buck tag is included with the license for $20 but Archery, muzzleloader, bear, doe tags and fur bearers are all separate. Total license cost with 6 doe tags is roughly $130 to hunt all seasons and animals. Take smokeless out of the equation and they are, just look at the below from top to bottom, Full power .45 Cal smokeless, Mid level .45 cal smokeless, .50 cal inline, .50 cal caplock. [ATTACH type="full"]424780[/ATTACH] Out past 200 you get substantial drop and lose your effective energy on any of the .50 cal muzzleloaders. The only ones really shooting at range are the .45 cal smokeless builds specifically designed to shoot that far and owned by a very small portion of hunters. [/QUOTE]
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