Pennsylvania muzzleloader hunters ????

[ParsonsOutdoors]

Well, early archery season and rifle season are over and I still have a buck tag to fill. I'd like to take the smokepole this year. Is there a deadline on when you can purchase a muzzleloader stamp for the 05/06 season? I'm asking this cause there used to be one in previous years. I think you could pick one up until the last day in July or something like that. Just wanted to know if it's still that way or they changed it.

I don't have my book on me to check it myself.

Thanks,
JP

[tped]

jp - I am pretty sure you are out of luck. I think you needed to buy the muzzleloader stamp by the end of August.

[ParsonsOutdoors]

Just found it on the PGC site. August 31st is the deadline.. Wonder what the reasoning in the deadline is????

JP

[AJ]

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Wonder what the reasoning in the deadline is????

JP

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The reason for the deadline was doe license. you could get either ML license or doe license, not both. I don't know if its still like that or what though.

[Hoyt03]

I'm pretty sure that if you get your muzzelloader license you can still get "plenty" of doe tags. Heck they are selling these things like crazy now, I think thats right

[G-Daddy]

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Wonder what the reasoning in the deadline is????

JP

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The reason for the deadline was doe license. you could get either ML license or doe license, not both. I don't know if its still like that or what though.

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Yeah. You used to have to surrender your doe license application in order to purchase a muzzleloader license. Now you can do both. The deadline for ml license was the end of July. Now they have moved it out some, but not a whole lot. I guess they want the ml licenses purchased before the first ml season in October.

[LETMGROW]

You should be able to buy a license right up to the last day of any season. Whats wrong with your DNR? The license money should go to conservation programs,You need to talk to someone about changing procedure.

[Born2Hunt]

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You should be able to buy a license right up to the last day of any season. Whats wrong with your DNR? The license money should go to conservation programs,You need to talk to someone about changing procedure.

[/ QUOTE ]What a load of crap. I think you should be able to buy them pu till the last day.

[tped]

PA, and probably allot of other states, Have a bunch of senseless laws. This is just another one. I think the reason they are not availabe into the seasons is to prevent someone from shooting first and buying the tag second. Now if they would only get rid of the flintlock requirement and get with most of the other modern states and allow inlines.

[G-Daddy]

They do allow inlines in the early season - mid October. The late season Dec 26 to mid January is still flintlock only. The regs have been updated to allow any projectile (used to be cloth patched round ball only) and fiber optic inserts for your open sights. There is a large and vocal tradiional muzzleloader group that lobbies very hard to keep the late season flint only. They like to dress up in buckskins and pretend that it's 200 years ago.

[Hoyt03]

Yeah I wish they would get out of the 1800's and allow inlines for the late season.

[ParsonsOutdoors]

Well, that sucks...I didn't even get my license til late September. I guess if I want to go next year, I can't snooze on the deadline. They need to change it!

JP

[G-Daddy]

Me too. I would love to use my inline for the late season.

[magnatecsteve]

There is a large and vocal tradiional muzzleloader group that lobbies very hard to keep the late season flint only. They like to dress up in buckskins and pretend that it's 200 years ago.
I don't mean to start anything here, but I also love the traditional hunts, flintlock hunting is a completely different world from the new in-lines...trust me I know cause I've done both. In-lines can be used here in Indiana for the entire firearm season and the muzzleloader season, but I would also like even just a short season for primitive weapons including traditional archery. It's not a game fellas. Trying to immulate the true woodsmanship and survival skills of the frontier era is a challenge to even the most savy modern day hunter. It's a whole different type of hunting, almost spiritual...If you were a modern bowhunter where your state had a primitive archery season, would you try to make that also open to any type of high let-off 300fps bow? I guess if you're not "INTO" this stuff you might not understand.......

[ParsonsOutdoors]

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There is a large and vocal tradiional muzzleloader group that lobbies very hard to keep the late season flint only. They like to dress up in buckskins and pretend that it's 200 years ago.
I don't mean to start anything here, but I also love the traditional hunts, flintlock hunting is a completely different world from the new in-lines...trust me I know cause I've done both. In-lines can be used here in Indiana for the entire firearm season and the muzzleloader season, but I would also like even just a short season for primitive weapons including traditional archery. It's not a game fellas. Trying to immulate the true woodsmanship and survival skills of the frontier era is a challenge to even the most savy modern day hunter. It's a whole different type of hunting, almost spiritual...If you were a modern bowhunter where your state had a primitive archery season, would you try to make that also open to any type of high let-off 300fps bow? I guess if you're not "INTO" this stuff you might not understand.......

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That's what I'm talkin bout! I love the primitive aspect of hunting. I've even built my own selfbow and harvested a red fox and a fat doe with it. I was looking forward to using the flintlock, but for some dumb (outdated) reason, I can't get the ml stamp.

JP