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Post by maddog on Jan 5, 2012 7:28:01 GMT -5
For you boys that have hunted deer for a while. A buddy and I got into a discussion about muzzleloading deer regs, back in the "old days" [circa 1979/80].
He said that when muzzleloading was introduced in Indiana, it was a doe only proposition in the beginning. Of course I call BS! ;D.
As I remember, back then you could buy a ML tag in gun season, and if you didn't fill it, you could hunt a buck only with the same tag in the late 9 day ML season. It was later that they switched the tag to either sex. This was before bonus county permits, and when they changed the law that you had to buy a second ML tag to hunt a buck.
Have I basically got this right, or am I having a brain fart about the old days?
Any help to set this straight would be appreciated. ;D Thanks!
maddog
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Post by stevein on Jan 5, 2012 9:13:39 GMT -5
When I started hunting deer about 1969 there were 2 tags, bow and gun. You could use a shotgun loaded with slugs or a single ball or muzzle loading rifle loaded with round ball only. The muzzle loading season followed gun season for maybe 6 days (around '71-"72) as Sunday hunting was not allowed. Buck only. I do not remember if bow was permitted in the second season. If you saw a deer it was considered a success. The first anterless seasons were by drawing in certain counties only. A few years later they started offering a muzzle loading tag, then a handgun tag. You had to have the correct tag to match your firearm. It was around the mid 80's when you could harvest a doe or buck with ML. I think this was after they stopped drawing for doe tags.
BTW elongated bullets were permitted for ML in the early 80's.
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Post by danf on Jan 5, 2012 22:25:18 GMT -5
The first anterless seasons were by drawing in certain counties only. I'm 33 and I can remember that. I can also remember stopping by the district biologists office after class in high school and picking up leftover bonus tags and I graduated in '97... |
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Post by kodiak50 on Jan 6, 2012 4:04:21 GMT -5
I started hunting in 65 and don't remember Sunday hunting not being allowed, of course growing up in the 60's my memory isn't what it should be :>}
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Post by featherduster on Jan 6, 2012 6:03:57 GMT -5
I started hunting somewhere around 1964 and as far as I can remember we could hunt on Sundays because we were hunting on state properties back then for ducks.
As far as muzzle loader hunting goes I seem to remember you could use your unused buck tag during muzzle loader season or you could take a doe. I remember a lot of hunters back then were saying they were going to hunt all gun season for a buck and then if they didn't get one they would take a doe with the muzzle loader.
In 1992 you could take a buck during regular gun season and then another buck with a muzzle loader.
As far as the bonus doe tags the first ones were given out by drawing for them and then if there were unclaimed doe tags you could go to certain DNR locations and obtain one.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 6, 2012 9:02:08 GMT -5
Dont have a clue as to what the MZ regs were back then but there was definetely a time when we could not hunt s on Sundays. That changed in the early 70s . The legislature passed a bill that allowed Sunday hunting on "private hunting preserves". The did not put in it what made a piece of ground a "private hunting preserve" so the anyone could just say "my ground is a "private hunting preserve". With that the DNR Enforcement said that they could not enforce no hunting on Sundays anywhere so from then on we could hunt Sundays..
IIRC....
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Post by schall53 on Jan 6, 2012 10:06:44 GMT -5
That's the way I remember it Woody, but I think the change was in the mid to late 60's.
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Post by stevein on Jan 6, 2012 10:29:13 GMT -5
Thanks Woody that is what I remember. Never was doe until late 80's or so.
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Post by 629powerport on Jan 6, 2012 11:41:32 GMT -5
I started hunting in 65 and don't remember Sunday hunting not being allowed, of course growing up in the 60's my memory isn't what it should be :>} Yep the 60's |
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Post by Russ Koon on Jan 6, 2012 12:32:51 GMT -5
I don't remember the year it changed, exactly, but I thought it was shortly after I started hunting, in the very early '60's. My best guess would have been around '64.
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Post by steiny on Jan 8, 2012 10:19:04 GMT -5
I remember when we couldn't hunt on Sundays.
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Post by lugnutz on Jan 8, 2012 14:25:55 GMT -5
Just another reason i love this site............yall make me feel soo young at 35! Hahaha
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Post by steiny on Jan 8, 2012 15:16:44 GMT -5
Blaze orange wasn't required either.
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