Smoke Pole Seasons

[tx50cal]

You are correct sir. I think most people stop hunting right after Thanksgiving due to the end of antlerless season without a special permit.

 

[Swamp Rat]

What state do you live in? South Carolina

What time of the year & how many days is your muzzle loader season? 134 days+/- along with what ever other weapon you care to carry.

Do you have a primative season only? Nope. There are a couple WMA areas that are primitive weapons that open and close at different times.

 

[newtewsmoke]

Unfortunately, money talks and we have no primative season. I am in the process of trying to get our local smokepole clubs to lobby with the legislation to create a primative season.

yer thinkin NO inlines, right? :thumbsup:

 

[capt_turk]

Yee Haaa!!! Muzzle loading seasons starts here in Florida in the morning!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[Woodyrock]

The unit I hunt in Washington has an early muzzleloader, and a late both are any deer. Early was Sept 28 to Oct 6...rained hard for the first six days. Had a good shot at a big doe, but she twin fawns still with her. Shot a mangy coyote. Hoping for drier weather for late which is Nov 28 to Dec 15. some of the game management units have such convoluted boundaries it is hard to know which one you are in at times.
Woody

 

[kruzer1]

In South Dakota it is the month of December for muzzleloader. No traditional season but no telescopic sights in BP season. There is also the first 15 days of Jan for anterless.

Anterless tags are easy to get and automatic- no drawing. There is a drawing for the "any deer" tag though. I have only gotten one and it took 8 years for me to finally draw my first muzzle-loader buck tag. So I am now using my muzzle loader in the center-fire season

 

[capt_turk]

Found out I was wrong on the start date for muzzle loaders here in North East Florida. It started this morning.

Went this morning. Every turnout off the road, every wide place in the road, had a pickup in everyone. Sounded like a war zone with all the idiots shooting at anything that moves. :cursing:

 

[Karl Helweg]

Since hunting seasons are coming up fast here: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=huntered.muzzleloader
IF I understand correctly, black powder hunters do not need to take this course in order to use black powder in regular areas and seasons.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=hunting.main

 

[gunner69skmc]

Education is always a plus, why not see what the course is all about? You may meet someone there that leads to a hunt. I NEVER turn down the chance to get in on a hunt or new information.

 

[Karl Helweg]

1) They have only been offering the classes during the work week which would require me to burn leave that I could be using to hunt. Worse, at this time I would have to fly 600-ish miles to the course since there are no roads there: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=huntered.onlinecourses&classtype=m
2) We have almost no black powder only seasons within an area about the size of Florida.
3)

I would be about 40 years older than the average student.
4) The instructor may only have experience with a scoped inlines from the Great-Wall-of-China-Mart. :wink:
5) I am being ornery and IF I do take the class I could not admit it here now. I have taken most of their online pre-courses.
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/education/hunter/instructor/pdfs/mz_online_teaching_guide.pdf

 

[MattC]

I'd do it.

 

[mike garner]

i live in the lowcountry of SC our season is the longest in the world with less restrictions than any other state i think. our season on private land runs from aug.15-jan1 we do not have a split season concerning firearms. we can hut with anything as long as it is center fire/flint/bow/handgun ect ect. we have no limit on bucks except for 5 per day i think, and no check stations no tags, except for doe tags, but we have a lot of doe days we can shoot them without a tag. and we can bait. most years i average 8-10 deer per year, and we have plenty of deer!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Which is the reason... plenty of deer.

My state is Maryland, and is divided into two areas, the Western two and half counties, and then the rest of the state.

This year (and I think I was incorrect in 2013 when I replied, I think it was the same last year but I missed it.) We had a 3-day either sex, muzzleloader season, then the following Monday through Saturday, it was doe only. Modern gun season open just after Thanksgiving for two weeks, with a week pause, then right after Christmas it's muzzleloader season for two weeks, then another week pause, and a final Friday-Saturday weekend for deer in January.

Bucks are very restricted, but you can shoot plenty of does.

LD

 

[Jim Vatt]

I live in PA. We just concluded our early ML season...Oct. 18 thru Oct. 25 (Sunday excluded). It was antlerless deer-only...The MLs can included scoped inlines during this season.

The late season is our primitive (flintlocks-only)season. It is buck or doe...if you haven't used your buck tag, you can fill it with an antlerless deer. That season runs 12-26-14 thru 01-10-15 (Sundays excluded).

If you hunt near PGH or PHILA, there are some special regs that expand these seasons...what I'm showing are the statewidw regs.

 

[Jim Vatt]

Oh, the other difference between our two seasons is that there is no blaze orange requirement for the late "Flinter" season. You ust wear at least 250 sq. inches of blaze orange on the head, chest and back-combined during the early season.

God bless those breechclout wearers during our normal January, but I can't go that far!!!!!

 

[renegadehunter]

Idaho has a muzzleloader season for "whitetail deer only" in a few of the units near me for Dec 2 to Dec 14. There are elk hunts for the same time frame and same units if you get an "A" tag (which I get for september archery hunt during the rut, and now will be ML hunting as well if unsuccessful during archery).
Regulations are only a projectile that is within .010" of the bore diameter and the ignition system must be exposed when the rifle is cocked and ready to fire. No scopes allowed. This is only during a "muzzleloader only" season.
There isn't any primitive weapon seasons in any of the units near me, not sure about southern units.
I'm enjoying BP shooting so much that I've been packing the renegade during the "any weapons" season for whitetail that is currently open.