Crimson Talon illegal in PA

TWPAHTR · 10-03-2003, 06:27 AM

I' m surprized I have not read this information on this site, but the Talon Broadheads are illegal in PA. It is posted on the PA Game Com. under the archery regulations. Due to the fact they do not have cutting edges in the same plane throughout the length of the blade. For those who care this might be important.

Jason N · 10-03-2003, 06:37 AM

TW, it was posted in the bohunting forum here. They' ve been illegal since their invention.

PAbearman · 10-03-2003, 08:40 AM

That kinda chaps me. I just bought these broadheads to try this year and now i find I can' t use them. Whats the PGC' s deal with this? So does this mean if I accidentally carry a broadhead with a bent blade I' m illegal?

T_in_PA2 · 10-03-2003, 09:17 AM

Just like carrying lead shot while waterfowl hunting. Can' t do it.

Do you plan on using the bent bh?

COWBOYSFAN · 10-03-2003, 10:35 AM

heard there is no fine, there are just going to hand out warnings. they know there going to have a big problem because of the wording in the book.

PAbearman · 10-03-2003, 11:35 AM

No i would carry a bent one, but things happen. I was just kinda venting, cause of having to get new broadheads the day before the season.

Mr. Longbeard · 10-04-2003, 09:07 AM

Why would any serious bowhunter even want to buy something like them, when there are so many other great broadheads out there to chose from.(Muzzy,Thunderheads,Interlock,Wasp,Etc)

PAbearman · 10-06-2003, 01:40 PM

Well I consider myself to be a fairly serious bowhunter and when the pro shop I use, Lancaster Archery, a nationally known archery business, recommends them as the best broadhead available on the market, I listen.

Grnmtn · 10-06-2003, 06:40 PM

They did wait till the last possible minute to clairfy this. Oct. 1... yes I supose you are correct they are illegal from their inception, but most people look at the cutting diameter of the broadhead 1.25inchs (above the 7/8 in the book) and think nothing of the fact that the blades are curved. It is an old law from the 50' s I believe that was focused for a barbed broadhead... if I read the reasoning correctly from another source... Makes one wonder why they would put the squach on this head and allow " some" (not all) of the crappy mechincals that are out there. I will be using them in other states... they are an incredible flying head that on my bows out perform every other head I have shot... Muzzy, thunderheads for accuracy and tightness of groups over 35 yards. Don' t knock them till you shoot them.