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A coworker of mine told me that it will be legal to carry a handgun this year during the archery season in PA as long as you have a Concealed Carry Permit.


I never read anything onit, Ijust heard this guy talking about it at work.

Anyone in the know?

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I dought itto be truebut they they do some strange things in Pa:(:D

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I doubt very much you can carry it concealed, Pa has a handgun permit for deer hunting, but it specifies not to carry it concealed,

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It is absolutely true. Its a new law that passed this winter. There is a big ruckus over in the bowhunting area about it.
Go to the game commission site, hit laws & regs on the left and then wildlife code, skip down some and it will be there.

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They never had any jurisdiction in the first place on this issue. I suspect that they are just amending a mistake that they made long ago.

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Absolutely right.

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It is true.I believe it became effective around the end of january.It was a stupid law to begin with.If the state sees me mentaly competant to pack heat in the grocery store,why can't I do it while hunting.

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Ohio and WV are the same too. If you have a permit to carry CCW, then you are allowed to carry it as defense during bow and gun season. I have always CCW during Bow Season.

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Because the GC assumes you are a criminal until proven otherwise and that you will use it in an unlawful manner to take wildlife while bowhunting. I carry matches in the woods. Does that make me an arsonist?
Bullet holes would look suspicious on a supposed bowkilled deer. I would be more accurate with the bow than the handgun probably.

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This was never a PGC issue.It was a legislative issue.

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I would bet that trouble could find you if you used the handgun to finish a deer down on the ground but not dead. Could probably get you then for hunting with the gun..
Anyway, I sure don't need any extra weight in my pack or on my belt. Overloaded as it is....

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You'd absolutely be in trouble if you used a firearm to finish off a deer during archery season.I can't imagine that being an issue though.In the last 26 years,I've only had to finish one deer off and my bow worked just fine for that.

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Thanks guys for verifying that.


My co worker said something about that incident, where that bowhunter was shot out of his treestand last year a few hundred yards from his house.

I don't know if that was part of the reasoning to change that law or if in some way, it proved the need for defense while bowhunting.

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My friend is a state trooper and was the investigating officer on the scene. It happened about 15 miles from my home. They still have not found the assailant. They pieced the crime together and the shooter was within about 25 feet of the tree supposedly. They figure that he walked up to the hunter, talked to him briefly, and then shot him out of the tree.
Wow is all I can say to that!

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The ccw specifically spells out the places you can't carry and makes no reference to hunting so this was a clean up of conflicting laws (IMHO)

Now for the nextcan of worms..... what about spotlighting deer with a handgun in the glovebox for legitimateCCW permitholders???;)

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I can't hit the broad side of a barn with a short barrel pistol. They are close-in weapons. Would do me no good to shoot at a deer with one.

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Right out of this years digest.

"All hunters and spotlighters who have a License to Carry Firearms Permit can now carry firearms, but only those authorized by the permit, which are defined in Title 18, Section 6102 of the Crimes Code. (Most sporting

arms are not authorized.)"

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/pgc/digestpdfs/2007/updates.pdf

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livbucks,i have browning buckmark plus..
its 22cal..
with open sights i can group about 1 inch or so at 50 yds, with scope, oh my..
will pistol be used to outlaw in archery,YOU BET..
as for seeing hole in deer,they will stick hunting arrow in hole..

will most do this, no ,but a lot will,a lot are ready to do it...

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It would be sensless to shoot a deer with a .22 pistol. There would be a very, very, very poor bloodtrail to follow. It would be a long, long bloodtrail to boot.