Length of ML Season

[luieb45]

Just want to know how long everyone's muzzleloader season is. In Illinois our muzzleloader season is on a Saturday, the Sunday after that, and the monday after. So all it is is just a weekend. The season is in middle December.

 

[wvbuckbuster]

Our ML season lasts for 1 week in December after all the other seasons though bow seasons lasts from Oct. to the end of the year. This year there will be an antlerless only early season from Sept. 21-26. As usual it has upset the string pullers for some reason. :yakyak:

 

[luieb45]

I could see how it would upset the bowhunters being one myself because if I'm not mistaken there are inlines allowed also in West Virginia.

 

[rabjr]

Roughly 22 days in November. Used to start every year November 1st but lately they have been messing with the start date. This past year it went from Nov 8 to Nov 30.

Then theres a late December 4 day antlerless State land only tag.

 

[RC]

in New York,,there's a 7 day season in the "northern"zone in early October and a late 7 day in some parts of the "northern" zone in early December...then a 9 day season in the "southern" zone in late December..but you can hunt all gun season with a muzzleloader...

 

[wvbuckbuster]

Louie B I don't see how bow hunters get upset when THEIR SEASON lasts for 2 1/2 months and ml season is for 1 week. Yes inlines are allowed. So are compound bows. Where is the logic in this? For me it is not about killing but having more time in the woods. The deer population is more than enough for everyone. If it wasn't the WVDNR wouldn't be having early BOW and ML antlerless seasons this year. Besides I get told I can hunt with my ML in the regular rifle season. So can BOW hunters. I believe we can all get along and no preference given one group over another. :hmm:

 

[larry wv]

Its a heck of a lot harder to kill a deer with a bow compared to an inline and scope. Or a pump shotgun as some use. I am a Bowhunter and this season WILL mess the Bow hunting up real bad. Once the deer are scared they are a heck of alot harder to hunt. The first 3 or 4 days of Bow season is good and the 10 days or so before the rut is best. So there are a lot of days but not many worth hunting. Larry Wv

 

[larry wv]

SWAMPY hope you get better and things work out OK. Larry

 

[theDuck]

I the part of Ontario I am in it is 6 days starting the first Monday in December. With all the Global Warming we have been having the last few years we have to use snowshoes now.

 

[fyrfyter43]

Here in NJ it depends on which zone you hunt.

The seasons for this year haven't been announced yet, but last year the muzzleloader season in the zone I hunt was 61 days. Of course every one of those days overlaps with either the firearms season or the late bow season, or both. Then again, there really aren't too many guys in the woods after the early-December firearms season.

Last year's season was:

Antlerless only - December 3-5, 8-13
Antlered (with separate buck permit) OR antlerless - Dec. 1, 2, 15, 16, 20-24, 26-31, and January 1 - February 14.

 

[Rancocas]

Well, let me see; squirrel opens in August, big game comes in October and runs into January, spring turkey runs for about a month and a half in April and May, and spring squirrel runs about a month; so, since I almost exclusively hunt with a muzzleloader that makes my muzzleloader season somewhere around 7 months long. Oh yeah. Coyotes are open all year, so my muzzleloader season is open all year! :grin:
Here in TN the actual designated muzzleloader season for big game only runs for about a week, but we can hunt any of the seasons with a muzzleloader if we choose to do so. I do choose to do so.

 

[brassell31]

9 days in Colorado. Always starts on the second Saturday in September and runs through the following Sunday a week later. Used to start the third Saturday, but someone complained we muzzleloaders were into the prime of the elk rut then and that it was too easy for us that way. Probably a bowhunter (who do get to hunt that week).

 

[fort fireman]

In Nc it all depends where you are hunting. there are 4 zones and they all start at different times but they are all right at 5 to 6 days long and no sundays. But we can also hunt with muzzleloaders during the rifle season so that helps. They were talking about making it a state wide season with the same start date but I don't know what happened with that. It didn't take effect for the '09-'10 season . Maybe next year. It would be easier to keep track of what you can hunt with where. It also appears they changed the wording on the blaze orange use. It just says now that you have to wear orange but doesn't say how much unless I missed it. I think it used to say a required amount( ie a hat or vest visible 360 Degrees). Andy

 

[JayDee Flohr]

After reading the short seasons listed, I feel very fortunate.
Our M/L deer season runs the entire month of December and if I choose to hunt the late antlerless season, it's from January 1 - 15.

 

[mikee51848]

PA has an "anything goes" season in October, from Oct 17-24 (flint, percussion, inlines) and a pure flint season from Dec 26th - Jan 9th (or 23rd depending on your hunt location). Of course, you can use your flint in the regular gun season too.

 

[RC]

After reading the short seasons listed, I feel very fortunate.
Our M/L deer season runs the entire month of December and if I choose to hunt the late antlerless season, it's from January 1 - 15.

"I feel very fortunate"" and secretive too! WHERE? :haha:

 

[tg]

The tag I drew is good all of Oct/Nov in the Willamette unit (farmland tough access unless you know someone) and two weeks in the first part of Nov in part of the costal Mts.(lots of public land and open timber company property, and private land).Tag is good for one deer so success is pretty high particularly if you have access to private land in either area.I know a couple of orchard owbers who don't care much for bucks tearing up young trees, and dad and I have been aropund here so long we have accumulated several nice areas where we have access, exclusive access in two small areas within a few minutes of home.But now and then the shot isn't there just like any other season and area.

 

[bigbore442001]

In Massachusetts our season for muzzleloading runs from December 14th to December 31st, 2009.

Bear in mind that we are not allowed to hunt on Sundays except on privately owned game bird preserves.

I will add that you can use a muzzleloader for the shotgun season which is two weeks prior to the muzzleloader. So in effect you have the whole month of December to hunt with a muzzleloader if you choose to do so.

 

[JayDee Flohr]

"I feel very fortunate"" and secretive too! WHERE?

Nebraska

 

[RC]

"I feel very fortunate"" and secretive too! WHERE?

Nebraska

:thumbsup: ......... :wink: