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[NOTAGS]

1 hour ago, EarlyBronco said:

What changes have been made this year for the crossbow permit, I gotta let me brother know 

You actually have to be disabled… physically?

[EarlyBronco]

44 minutes ago, NOTAGS said:

You actually have to be disabled… physically?

Its a serious question 

[NOTAGS]

Sorry, Im not a serious guy… check regs  or proposals.. it’s all there. Annual renewal, no weed MD to sign off, real orthopedists I believe..there will still be abuse . I need a shoulder replacement at this point,but sold my  xbow, and resigned my self to gun hunts. Xbows weren’t  my thing after almost 50 years of recurves and compounds. JMO

[EarlyBronco]

10 minutes ago, NOTAGS said:

Sorry, Im not a serious guy… check regs  or proposals.. it’s all there. Annual renewal, no weed MD to sign off, real orthopedists I believe..there will still be abuse . I need a shoulder replacement at this point,but sold my  xbow, and resigned my self to gun hunts. Xbows weren’t  my thing after almost 50 years of recurves and compounds. JMO

Right on, thank you, I seen some proposals , just didn’t know if they passed

[BOHNTR]

11 hours ago, EarlyBronco said:

Right on, thank you, I seen some proposals , just didn’t know if they passed

It was signed by the Governor last week and goes into effect on July 1, 2026.  

[trphyhntr]

11 hours ago, EarlyBronco said:

Its a serious question 

I thought it was a serious answer tbh 

[creed]

1 hour ago, BOHNTR said:

It was signed by the Governor last week and goes into effect on July 1, 2026.  

So when do we start the process of passing an accuracy test to qualify for a tag? 

[BOHNTR]

56 minutes ago, creed said:

So when do we start the process of passing an accuracy test to qualify for a tag? 

You’ll need to explain how you propose to implement the testing (logistically, financially, and justification) then bring it forward to the commission as a proposal.  If they agree with your assessment, they will request the department to create a focus group to discuss the feasibility.   

[creed]

 

It’s not going to happen

In all seriousness I wonder how high the wounding rate is. It’s a subject that doesn’t get discussed much. I have known many guys that over the years pick up a bow the week before the season opens, fling a few arrows and call it good. I know a lot more that will only shoot field points and then screw broadheads  on and go hunting. We owe it to the animal we hunt to be as proficient as possible.

I brought the subject up on the bowsite years ago, and had guys jump all over me for supplying the antis ammunition just by even talking about it. Sweep it under the carpet.

 

 

[wildwoody]

we definitely wound more then we kill. I'm going to guess, we would 60% of what is shot at.. 

[NOTAGS]

3 hours ago, trphyhntr said:

I thought it was a serious answer tbh 

It was,   with perhaps   a dash of sarcasm...

[BOHNTR]

17 minutes ago, creed said:

 

It’s not going to happen

In all seriousness I wonder how high the wounding rate is. It’s a subject that doesn’t get discussed much. I have known many guys that over the years pick up a bow the week before the season opens, fling a few arrows and call it good. I know a lot more that will only shoot field points and then screw broadheads  on and go hunting. We owe it to the animal we hunt to be as proficient as possible.

I brought the subject up on the bowsite years ago, and had guys jump all over me for supplying the antis ammunition just by even talking about it. Sweep it under the carpet.

 

 

There’s just as many of not more from muzzy folks around my place, so it’s not weapons specific…..at least by my place every year.  There’s no real data to support either way, unfortunately. Wounding rate is acceptable, in terms of management, providing the animal recovers.  

[yotebuster]

44 minutes ago, wildwoody said:

we definitely wound more then we kill. I'm going to guess, we would 60% of what is shot at.. 

I think wounding is way under reported.  I have been keeping track on our whitetail place here in ND and it runs about 60/40 wounds to clean kills.  Absolutely terrible.  There’s some family of friends of mine that still bowhunt there and I think they bat around .300 on actually killing anything.   This is out of ground blinds to boot, it doesn’t get easier than that.  I took away the elevated stands from archers a few years ago as that makes the shot angle even tougher, and they’re still wounding them.   It’s really pretty dang embarrassing for hunters honestly.  

[creed]

4 hours ago, BOHNTR said:

There’s no real data to support either way, unfortunately. Wounding rate is acceptable, in terms of management, providing the animal recovers.  

I got to looking on the www and there’s actually quite a few studies done. Kind of eye-opening in a bad way.

[wildwoody]

should be like Alaska, , a wound is a kill. I also herd of a gentleman who hit 6 bulls in one hunt and never retrieved one