I live in Vermont and found out this year that you can use a bow in every season here, making me consider trying to use a bow for everything I hunt including birds. This got me wondering how many other states are like this? Do any of you only use a bow for hunting?
Just curious why not hunt ducks and geese with a bow, is it hard to get an ethical kill? I can get pretty close to them in my canoe.
Not legal to hunt waterfowl with a bow in WI. Everything else is open. You can even hunt with a bow during gun season, using a gun tag.
I am a little confused by the term "lead shot" in reference to arrows. I was thinking of using a seel head probably a broad head or maybe a turkey galatine and a carbon fiber arrow is that illegal for waterfowl? I was told by a hunting education instructor you could hunt geese with a bow in VT and have not found anything contrary to that in the regulations but of course want to be completely certain it is legal before going out. Also I would not use any lead when hunting anything in the water or hunting waterfowl. For grouse I am planning on using Judo points.
I don't know, I heard at one time that they were going to allow hunters to hunt waterfowl with infinite mass broadheads but I can't find anything further on that point. I know here it's legal to hunt them with Limber shafts with gel inserts and a floof head but there are restrictions on draw weight of the bow.
Every broadhead I've ever owned are steel. Waterfowl can be hunted with bow lawfully in Virginia. Easy enough to check individual states at your finger tips. Plenty of waterfowl and pheasant are taken with stickbows.
