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Hunters unite! I passed NJ shotgun hunting test. Woo.
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Not like it was really hard or anything but I have successfully passed the NJ state hunters exam and I am now certified to hunt in NJ with my shotgun.
Any other hunters out there?
December will be my first time out, I want to get myself a deer and eat the meat of something I killed myself. Should be pretty great.
Any other hunters out there?
December will be my first time out, I want to get myself a deer and eat the meat of something I killed myself. Should be pretty great.
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In alabama you can use an automatic crossbow.
Last time I went bird hunting we were in a baited field and the plan was that if an official showed up one of the guys would take off running in hopes that he would give chase. Then the rest of us would just hop in the truck and drive off, picking him up at designated point (or at the jail, I suppose) later. Apparently, they had successfully employed this tactic before.
Shotgun, bow and arrow, and black powder rifles.
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Congratulations, just remember to be safe.
I really only know how gun deer hunting works in Wisconsin, there is the one week of gun hunting a year at the end of November and regulations on number and type of deer you can shoot (all based on how you registered and if you applied for extra tags and such) and requirements of plenty of blaze orange. How does the season work in NJ?
Its the only modern gun you're allowed to use, even though they let you use slugs. Yeah, other guns are too powerful, but slugs in a shotgun... Okay!
or they can adjust the spread.
but they're listening to every word I say
Three replies. I'm surprised it took that long, actually.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I will be getting a scope mounted on my gun in the next month or so and I will be good to go come December.
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What? o_O
Okay, New Jersey is ridiculous.
Don't rifles shoot at higher velocities?
but they're listening to every word I say
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Not the same range...or at least that's the argument I always hear. A lot of times the rules are made by people based on what sounds good, not on what actually makes sense. I haven't heard too many stories of rifle rounds traveling too far and injuring someone, certainly not enough that it makes sense to restrict it to shotguns.
'Course NJ might have a completely different reason for the ban on rifles.
The deer get really big. Also, they have gills.
Any truth to the rumor that they're starting to evolve a hunter orange coloration as a protective mechanism?
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Why not? It's just a big, slow bullet and the standard irons on a shotgun (usually either a bead or ghost ring) aren't usually worth a shit for hunting anything without wings.
you'd be surprised how accurate a scoped shotgun is at decent range. Creepy accurate. Like No Country for Old Men Accurate.
I'm from upstate new york originally. We're allowed rifles up there. But there are not as many deer (leastways not as many as PA or NJ) so it evens out a little.
Now i live in Maryland. I would cringe at firing off a rifle in this super populated area even if I was in hunting areas. I think a shotgun would be more suited for the terrain as well.
this man is correct.
though I will saw that a 30-06 is a must if you have to kill every single mother fucking deer in the woods. You should accept no substitutes. It sounds like a goddamned arm cannon though. My father uses the 270 savage. Also FUCK loud.
I carry the lever action Marlin 30-30 for weight and utility, and general accuracy. I like my gun.
It's pretty nice. I've done some accurate work at about 100 meters.
Even .308 is okay. Maybe not for grizzlies or bison.
Shotguns don't over-shoot the way a rifle does. The lethal range on a hunting rifle round (not the accurate range, mind you, I'm talking about the range at which the bullet can still hurt someone badly by accident) is up around 5 miles for some of the bigger rifle rounds. A shotgun, it's more like a half mile (again, not the range you can actually shoot at with accuracy, but the distance the shit will fly before becoming harmless)
A lot of the eastern states have hunting for white-tail deer in particular with shotguns.
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