You think our deer regulations are confusing
Feb 21, 2022 15:21:19 GMT -5
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Post by onebentarrow on Feb 21, 2022 15:21:19 GMT -5
I picked up a Virginia hunt regulations while on vacation and looked at the deer hunting seasons. They are a mess. Best I could tell there are 6 different gun seasons and 5 different archery seasons. With in those seasons some city's and public ground have different seasons and weapons requirements.
The bag limit is 6 with only 3 bucks,5 only 2 bucks 4 only 2 bucks. Some countys must kill a doe befor 2nd buck some second buck must have 4 points on one side some countys have unlimited doe tags. The state is not divided into sections for each season you could have 4 counyts in the north 2 central and 5 west. Next season may include first 4 plus 3 more none of second but 3 others and all of the 5 plus 5 more. There were 79 sub regulations for different parts of the state each aera had from 1 to 10 sub regulations that were from could only use a rifle in a tree stand to changing the caliber of the rifle allowed in the state regulations to only 1 shell in gun to I did not read all of them
I think to hunt deer there I would need a regular hunting license $111.00 a season specific license(archery)$31 gun $31 or muzzeloader $31 and a deer tag $151.
I did not include muzzelloader in the season statement. It appears that you can have gun archery and muzzelloader season in different countys at the same time and run concurrently in some countys too. It is a mess big time.
Needles to say I will not be looking to hunt that state.
I wonder how many violations are prosecuted each year because of hunting in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not from blatant disregard but because of total misunderstanding of the hunting regulations seasons and subseasons and subregulations.
I never had any problems understanding our regs but theirs are mind boggling.
Onebentarrow
The bag limit is 6 with only 3 bucks,5 only 2 bucks 4 only 2 bucks. Some countys must kill a doe befor 2nd buck some second buck must have 4 points on one side some countys have unlimited doe tags. The state is not divided into sections for each season you could have 4 counyts in the north 2 central and 5 west. Next season may include first 4 plus 3 more none of second but 3 others and all of the 5 plus 5 more. There were 79 sub regulations for different parts of the state each aera had from 1 to 10 sub regulations that were from could only use a rifle in a tree stand to changing the caliber of the rifle allowed in the state regulations to only 1 shell in gun to I did not read all of them
I think to hunt deer there I would need a regular hunting license $111.00 a season specific license(archery)$31 gun $31 or muzzeloader $31 and a deer tag $151.
I did not include muzzelloader in the season statement. It appears that you can have gun archery and muzzelloader season in different countys at the same time and run concurrently in some countys too. It is a mess big time.
Needles to say I will not be looking to hunt that state.
I wonder how many violations are prosecuted each year because of hunting in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not from blatant disregard but because of total misunderstanding of the hunting regulations seasons and subseasons and subregulations.
I never had any problems understanding our regs but theirs are mind boggling.
Onebentarrow
