Shooting times and ethics
12-02-2003, 05:42 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Jim Thorpe, PA
Posts: 536
Shooting times and ethics
Your game commision establishes shooting times; ie. half hour before sunrise to sunset. How close do you obey? Today, I heard shots after 5 pm, at least 23 minutes past legal time.
12-02-2003, 06:03 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: 20' up, NJ
Posts: 2,031
RE: Shooting times and ethics
nj has a table showing sunrise/sunset. i use this table to decide what time to wake, leave, and be in stand in the morning. i also like to be in the stand 2.5-3 hours before sunset, so i use it for that. i dont use it at all for shot choices. if i can clearly see the target through the sights, and i am confident, i will shoot. then i will look at my watch.
12-02-2003, 06:48 PM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sandy Creek New York USA
Posts: 188
RE: Shooting times and ethics
Problem is that the deer come out after,not before sunset and usually just after sunset, and what of that deer that comes by your stand just before sunrise, where you have been sitting silently for an hour or so? This is the ultimate ethical test; does anyone have a perfect record? Anyone???
12-02-2003, 07:25 PM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Shooting times and ethics
i have a perfect record.....our time is 1/2 hr before sunrise(cant see jack) but the sunset rule i dont know...i just might slip on that one....if i can see i will shoot...but if i cant solidly identify my target im not shooting....
12-02-2003, 07:37 PM
#6
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Erie PA USA
Posts: 101
RE: Shooting times and ethics
If i can identify my target as a deer, i will shoot. IF i have any doubts of what it is i will let it pass. For night hunts i am gone once i cant see my uncle who is about 60 yards from me.
Tim
Tim
12-02-2003, 08:10 PM
#7
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 2
RE: Shooting times and ethics
In Maine starting this year we could shoot up until l/2 hour after sunset. I was surprised by how little shooting I heard after sunset. We had only 3 accidents the entire season. It was one of the safest ever even with the extended hours.
