Multiple times during the full gun week and the bonus weekend I've heard questionable shots taken. I have seen first hand the damage a single well placed slug can do do a deer. I don't know how many times this weekend I've heard 5 or 6 rapid fire shots go off. They have to be shooting for trophy antlers because I don't think there would be any meat left after a barrage like that. I wish we had more Rangers and Wardens in the field. If it takes you 6 shots to hit a deer, then you suck and need to find something else to do. I hate stupid people. I feel better now, thank you.
People always assume the worst, but you are allowed to hunt small game and migratory birds during the extra days of gun, unlike the full gun season.
People always assume the worst, but you are allowed to hunt small game and migratory birds during the extra days of gun, unlike the full gun season.
I guess I should've mentioned the area is the Hocking region. Migratory birds are pretty well ruled out and if it was small game, what could possibly be left of a rabbit or squirrel after 5-6 shotgun blasts?
I guess I should've mentioned the area is the Hocking region. Migratory birds are pretty well ruled out and if it was small game, what could possibly be left of a rabbit or squirrel after 5-6 shotgun blasts?
Oh i've seen alot of lead thrown at rabbits and dogs wanna whup some hunter a$$ when they have to run another loop.... Lol!
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People always assume the worst, but you are allowed to hunt small game and migratory birds during the extra days of gun, unlike the full gun season.
It is pretty obvious that it is not waterfowl or small game.
It happens during all of the gun seasons, just a short time after legal shooting times but before it's dark.
They are either unloading thier MZ's, just shooting because they saw nothing to shoot at all day and want to just shoot, or they are shooting at deer. I'm sure it is some of all of them.
If you could here a bow being shot I'm sure you would hear a lot of bowshots after legal hunting hrs.
If you could here a bow being shot I'm sure you would hear a lot of bowshots after legal hunting hrs.
thats just a crazy statement.
the bow hunters (at least my friends) practice all thru the season and dont feel the urge to take exrta shots at the end of a hunt. i do know a few crossbow hunters the have a discharge arrow and shoot it into the groung at the end of the day to uncock the bow.
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the bow hunters (at least my friends) practice all thru the season and dont feel the urge to take exrta shots at the end of a hunt. i do know a few crossbow hunters the have a discharge arrow and shoot it into the groung at the end of the day to uncock the bow.
I am not suggesting the bow shots after legal shooting hours have anything to do with practice.
I know as an absolute fact that many deer are shot during bow season after legal shooting hours.
Kim, might i suggest reporting these people to the poacher hot line my friend??
I have on more than one occasion. The problem always comes down to the GW being able to prove the violation. In all of the calls I have made in my life I only know of one report that resulted in a citation being written for a game violation. The guy still had the turkey in his possession that he shot, and we reported, on the first day of gun season. The GW (Athens County) actually called me to give me the results of that report
When I was the president of bowhunting club in central Ohio with a couple hundred members I got some first hand accounts and bunches of second hand accounts. In the 20 years that I was very active in bowhunting and hunting multiple states per year I heard it way too often. One guy even told me first hand that he killed his deer in the middle of the night on a snow covered moon lit night. It is amazing what peer pressure to kill a deer will do to some guys that you would never suspect it of.
I also know with the archery kill now at 85,000-90,000 deer per year. An over 30% increase since 2005, the only significant growing harvest segment since 2005, that there is over 4 months of opportunity to be tempted with little to no chance of being caught.
If we hear shots during the gun seasons after legal shooting hours and suspect that they are at deer why would we not believe that the same or even greater number of legal shooting hour violations occur during bowhunting season.
I was never confronted in all of those years with the buck I've been hunting walking in 5 mins after legal shooting time. I would like to think I know 100% how I would have reacted, but the temptation would be huge. I know some used to succumb to the pressure and I see no reason to believe it doesn't still happen today at an even higher rate just based upon a harvest increase.
Do any of you bowhunters today think it doesn't happen?
The adjacent property to the property I hunt was posted this year and is now leased. The people actually hung the signs all along the property line the week before gun season. Well this sunday we were there and around 11:30am we heard 6 rapid fire shots come from the leased land then about 10 seconds later 6 more shots. The land owner of the property I was on said wow they must be really bad shots. I said well they definately don't have a plug in. We waited about 15 minutes to see if anything ran over to us then walked out to the truck for lunch. As we were sitting there we saw the GW drive by headed up to where they were. We just smiled and waved.
I have on more than one occasion. The problem always comes down to the GW being able to prove the violation. In all of the calls I have made in my life I only know of one report that resulted in a citation being written for a game violation. The guy still had the turkey in his possession that he shot, and we reported, on the first day of gun season. The GW (Athens County) actually called me to give me the results of that report
When I was the president of bowhunting club in central Ohio with a couple hundred members I got some first hand accounts and bunches of second hand accounts. In the 20 years that I was very active in bowhunting and hunting multiple states per year I heard it way too often. One guy even told me first hand that he killed his deer in the middle of the night on a snow covered moon lit night. It is amazing what peer pressure to kill a deer will do to some guys that you would never suspect it of.
I also know with the archery kill now at 85,000-90,000 deer per year. An over 30% increase since 2005, the only significant growing harvest segment since 2005, that there is over 4 months of opportunity to be tempted with little to no chance of being caught.
If we hear shots during the gun seasons after legal shooting hours and suspect that they are at deer why would we not believe that the same or even greater number of legal shooting hour violations occur during bowhunting season.
I was never confronted in all of those years with the buck I've been hunting walking in 5 mins after legal shooting time. I would like to think I know 100% how I would have reacted, but the temptation would be huge. I know some used to succumb to the pressure and I see no reason to believe it doesn't still happen today at an even higher rate just based upon a harvest increase.
Do any of you bowhunters today think it doesn't happen?
The thing you fail to mention lundy, is that bow hours are a half hour after sunset. Gun only goes to sunset. So yes, there are a ton more shots after legal shooting time for gun. As I have bow hunted all my life, but only gun hunted the last five, I have to keep reminding myself its only to sunset.
"Extra" shots during gun season
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