RE: One season, any weapon
 

x3!!

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During the Pa. rifle deer season,you can use rifle,shotgun,pistol,ml,x-bow,compound,recurves & longbows

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Based on those comments.....I put a lot of stock in the "our" and "here" words in your reply. SC obviously has either more deer and/or less hunters. If they were doing an effective job of taking them with bows.....they probably wouldn't open their season to all weapons on August 15th.

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Except for a few weeks in October, our little bow season, and a few counties that have special late muzzleloader seasons, that's the way it is here in Texas year round (No closed season on hogs and exotics). Dance with what ya brung.;) I am practically convinced our bow season will eventually be incorporated into the general season. It'd certainly leave only dedicated bowhunters in the woods.

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Yea, but now take that season and make it the ONLY season. That is my point.


Note to self: NEVER attempt to hunt in SC. ;)

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Actually...not all of the zones open on Aug. 15th, 3 of game zones here in SC do. The other half of the zones open between Sept. 1-14. Except for zone1 which doesn't open until Oct. 1st. "Bow" season usually runs about 2 weeks in all the zones prior to gun season opening.

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And the last time I checked, SC had the highest deer per square mile ratio in the nation. Not to say that hasn't changed since.

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And in these zones (Aug. 15th)....doesn't it open for ANY weapon?

What about the ones that open Aug. 15th? Do they have a bow-only season?

What areas are NOT open Aug. 15th to ANY weapon? What areas of the state? This is news, to me.....but I don't live there, anymore. Thanks for setting the record straight.

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2 of the 3 zones that open on Aug. 15th are any weapon until Jan. 1. The other zone is bow only from Aug 15-Aug 31st.

Zones 1, 2, and 4 do not open on Aug. 15th. Zones 1 and 2 are basically the "upstate" area and zone 4 is the greater Florence area. Here's the link...

http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/pdf/gamezones.pdf

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Thanks, nc....

Being from Charleston....that's the only deer season I knew, down there (through friends). If it didn't fly or swim....I didn't pursue it.