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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.