Yeah, I completely understand. I grew up hunting in PA and the non-resident license and additional cost for each weapon/animal tag was getting way too costly and I said the heck with it. I purchased land in Ohio just because I wanted a place of my own and it's been one of the best decisions for fun, relaxation, and maximizing my hunting experience that I've ever made. I sure hope other states adopt something like this, it truly has been one of the nicest additions to hunting my own land closer to home.
because I'm a non-resident, don't rifle hunt in WI and even if I did rifle doesn't start up there until I think this weekend; and it would cost me another $180 to purchase a rifle license/doe tag. I COULD have purchased an additional doe archery tag for only another $20 but a) I didn't need the meat so was only looking to down a buck and b) we only have 40 acres to hunt and try to disturb it as little as possible and not take does until it's down to the last couple of days of our season (which is not necessarily the last calendar days of the season; I just mean the last weekend we are able to get up there.) OK, so why is it illegal for archery but not gun?
Because the culture is completely different. Bow hunting is an individual thing and gun hunting is done is groups.
says you. You make your hunting experience what you want to make of it. For me, all hunting is both an individual and group thing. My deer camps are for/with my family. My stand time is for me. Doesn't make a darn bit of difference what weapon I'm carrying. What does culture have to do with equitable applicability with a law?
Not entirely true. In the SE part of the state, 300 zone, it is illegal to cross tag(party hunt) bucks. SCFox
Party hunting here in Minnesota gets abused terribly!! Too much of it is done illegally. I don't want them to make it illegal though because it would then take it away from the good people who do it right. Cross tagging for bucks on the other hand, I wish that was illegal in the whole state.
amen, brother. Party tags for does are just to help out with meat. If the state didn't expect them to get filled they wouldn't issue them. Shouldn't really matter who fills them (like a landowner tag) or what weapon you use. Again, I don't participate or condone illegal hunting practices. I just question the reasoning behind some laws.
