PA Game Commission to Ruin Flintlock Season?

[springfield art]

Heard a rumor at a gun show today that the PA Game Comm. is considering allowing IN-LINES into the PA Flintlock special hunting season!! Can this be true?? What would be the point of a special Flint season then?? In-lines ain't even FLINTS! They're nothing more than watered-down modern rifles!

 

[snakebit]

They've already made a late season rifle hunt in some zones too. Wear you danged hunter orange .

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

I OBJECT!

 

[Dutch7]

I SECOND THE OBJECTION

 

[BoomStick]

It was a proposal to allow inlines in disease management areas during the late season. It looks like it didn't get enough votes from the commissioners.

This really would not have made a difference in the areas I hunt. In 5C and 5D the extended regular firearms season for antlerless overlaps anyways. But I will say most times I'm out, even on public land, in the late season I don't see other hunters. Not sure if it's the cold, or lack of interest in tagging a doe, or freezer is already full -probably why the game commission keeps adding more doe licenses to the regions as there is not enough harvest.

 

[cynthialee]

I think we are seeing a lot of these changes, proposed or passed, that are lightening up on the rules about firearm types allowable is due to a decline in hunters.
When I was a child every man I knew hunted. And we lived in the city. It was ubiquitous to the culture.
Nowadays, I am the only hunter I know and I have skipped a number of seasons in recent years due to age related issues. A few of the men in the family used to hunt, but they got older and moved on or passed on.

 

[TerryK]

 

[mrd]

This proposal was dropped and will not even come up in the Jan. meeting.

 

[Zutt-man]

Wear you danged hunter orange .

Should be mandatory in any big game firearms season across the country. Absolutely asinine some states forgo it

 

[bldtrailer]

I'm in 5c and hate the extended rifle season

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Should be mandatory in any big game firearms season across the country. Absolutely asinine some states forgo it

Nope, I don't agree at all. I'll quit hunting if I have to wear that junk. Same as all the other things the government mandates to keep me "safe". It's that attitude that has eliminated the freedom of choice we used to have when it was a free country.

 

[mrd]

In PA. during our late flint lock season we don't have to wear orange, but I always wear an orange hat when moving. What I don't understand is our early doe only M.L. season during archery. We must wear orange and archers do not.

 

[Buff1958]

It would cost them some out of state hunters..... I am driving up from Texas to hunt the PA flintlock season just because it is kinda cool that it is flintlock only and I have always wanted to hunt in the snow

 

[BoomStick]

The rules are a mess and confusing. Archers do have to wear orange in the last 3 days of the October muzzleloader doe season because those 3 days overlap with a special early firearms season for active military, seniors, disabled and youth hunters.

 

[Zutt-man]

Nope, I don't agree at all. I'll quit hunting if I have to wear that junk. Same as all the other things the government mandates to keep me "safe". It's that attitude that has eliminated the freedom of choice we used to have when it was a free country.

Hunters orange can and does save lives. We see it every single fall. It’s foolish and incomprehensibly irresponsible to not wear it. With as crowded as public is (and private for that matter), you’d never know what is beyond your target.

I’d love to ask my uncle his opinion, but because those laws did not exist when he hunted, he’s no longer with us.

 

[Big Tom 52]

I don't flintlock hunt (yet) but I agree, NO IN-LINES in Primitive flintlock season!! Heck, I can't use my sidelock percussion muzzleloader in the Primitive flintlock season. As far as fluorescent orange goes, I'll use it to walk to and from my stand during the week in Oct. That's all I'll say about that.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Hunters orange can and does save lives. We see it every single fall. It’s foolish and incomprehensibly irresponsible to not wear it. With as crowded as public is (and private for that matter), you’d never know what is beyond your target.

I’d love to ask my uncle his opinion, but because those laws did not exist when he hunted, he’s no longer with us.

Wear it if you want to. Just don't tell me I have to.

 

[snakebit]

Should be mandatory in any big game firearms season across the country. Absolutely asinine some states forgo it

A lot of folks who hunt the PA flintlock season wear HC/PC attire. They live for that season. And rarely are there hunting related accidental shootings in that particular season.

 

[Spikebuck]

I feel for you guys in PA. You have a very special season. Our late season muzzleloader season is now basically a high powered single shot modern rifle season with all types of modern muzzleloaders & accessories allowed, and our SouthEast zone overlaps with shotgun season.

The sad reality is that traditional hunters of any kind, be they bow or muzzleloaders, mean virtually nothing to many state game officials. They aren't interested in history or tradition. We are few in number and therefore don't do a lot to impact harvest numbers. If they want more game killed, there are only so many days, so they allow non-traditional hunters into traditional seasons in an effort to kill more animals.

The trends don't look that good for us. Keep fighting for your special season.

 

[justinoldguy]

I live in a state that used to have a dedicated Black Powder season. Never saw another hunter in the woods during those days. Then came in-lines, plastic stocks, sabot bullets, and scopes. Black powder season just became an extended rifle season, but it did not end there. Now, Black Powder season has gone the way of the Dodo, and we have an abomination called Alternative Methods Season. Anything goes, including scoped, bolt-action "handguns", and AR platforms in 300 Blackout, as long as the stock is detachable, thus making it a "handgun". Now the woods are filled with guys buying unlimited doe tags, who are eradicating the deer herds on public land. Game management policies are dictated by auto insurance lobbyists to reduce deer/car collisions. Meanwhile, us guys who used to hunt with a traditional muzzleloader and enjoy solitude, now have to share the woods with a vast horde of guys filling freezers with the latest high tech equipment. Fight like Hell to keep your primitive season primitive.