Liv4Rut
Active Member
Clarify
I wanted to clarify that it is only during LATE muzzleloader. You cannot fill a early muzz tag with a bow either, only late season you can. Shotgun season, definitely not.
I wanted to clarify that it is only during LATE muzzleloader. You cannot fill a early muzz tag with a bow either, only late season you can. Shotgun season, definitely not.
Nontypcl1
Member
I just got off the phone with DNR customer service line and I was told no you cannot use archery equipment to fill a gun tag. Not even during late muzzleloader season.
I had thought I'd always heard the contrary. That yes you could fill a late muzzleloader tag with archery equipment but not vice versa. I may have to call the CO on this one to verify.
I had thought I'd always heard the contrary. That yes you could fill a late muzzleloader tag with archery equipment but not vice versa. I may have to call the CO on this one to verify.
sureshot
The Hunt Never Ends....
Wow, imagine that....a DNR employee who doesn't know the regulations. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT 
Hmmm....let's hire some more 'non-consumptive' users who don't hunt.....just because they have a wildlife degree.
I think it would be scary to see how many of the employees up in DM in the wallace building hunt/fish.....espescially the 'top dogs' who make the decisions.
Hmmm....let's hire some more 'non-consumptive' users who don't hunt.....just because they have a wildlife degree.
I think it would be scary to see how many of the employees up in DM in the wallace building hunt/fish.....espescially the 'top dogs' who make the decisions.
jesserichard
New Member
I agree. You should have gotten the persons name and let there supervisor know what up. But then again the supervisor might not know either?
kbnelson3
Supporter of Landowners
Wow, imagine that....a DNR employee who doesn't know the regulations. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT
Hmmm....let's hire some more 'non-consumptive' users who don't hunt.....just because they have a wildlife degree.
I think it would be scary to see how many of the employees up in DM in the wallace building hunt/fish.....espescially the 'top dogs' who make the decisions.
I was at the Cabela's in Prairie du Chien, WI a few weeks ago with a buddy who was going to buy a resident archery license in Wisconsin as a non-resident attending school in the state. The girl working the counter said we couldn't do that, even after pointing it out in the regulation book. Some people..
deeraddict
PMA Member
Pg. 25 of the regs there is a chart. Legal method of take per season. Archery is available for everything except Early ML and the 2 shotgun seasons. Yes, it is included in the Nov and Jan antlerless only seasons as well.
Shoot2Kill
Active Member
Wow, imagine that....a DNR employee who doesn't know the regulations. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT
Hmmm....let's hire some more 'non-consumptive' users who don't hunt.....just because they have a wildlife degree.
I think it would be scary to see how many of the employees up in DM in the wallace building hunt/fish.....espescially the 'top dogs' who make the decisions.
College roommate is a DNR employee in SE, and from what he's told me the hook n' bullet boys of old that actually lived the job are quickly being phased out as they retire with the "new age, touchly feely, never hunted or fished" types but have a wildlife degree.
sep0667
Land of the Whitetail
I just checked the regs, pg 25. I never realized you could do this. I knew that you could carry your bow with you during late muzzleloader season along with your muzzleoader if you had not used your anysex archery tag and had bought at late season muzzleloader tag.
So, tell me if I am right. I have already used my anysex archery tag for this year on a buck. The way I understand this is that I can now go buy an anysex late muzzleloader tag and use my bow again to shoot another buck and put my late season muzzleloader tag on it?
So, tell me if I am right. I have already used my anysex archery tag for this year on a buck. The way I understand this is that I can now go buy an anysex late muzzleloader tag and use my bow again to shoot another buck and put my late season muzzleloader tag on it?
150 Class
Well-Known Member
That is correct. You can legally use your bow late season and tag another buck (or doe) using the late season muzzy tag either sex tag.
sep0667
Land of the Whitetail
:way:, I can't believe I did not know this. I'm surprised I don't ever hear on anyone really doing this to often.
rutnstrut
PMA Member
If you fill it during the late muzzleloader season, Im sure you knew this and didnt mean otherwise I just wanted to make sure it was pointed out that you can not buy a late muzzy tag and fill it with a bow during regular bow season, the season dates still apply it just allows someone who doesnt gun hunt to hunt the late season if theyve already filled there bow tag.
THA4
A Few Steps Ahead Of You
Blaster
PMA Member
That's because the deer are so spooked by this time of year getting them into bow range is very hard. Smoke Pole all the way for late season!:way:
Nontypcl1
Member
The only way I would see myself using this law is for some doe management. Unlike some others on here my area, particularly a couple farms, still have a very large deer population and an overabundance of doe. I'd like to use the bow to stealthily kill a couple doe while still being able to have the option of using the muzzy if I'm unable to get it done with archery tackle. However, if a big old iowa giant steps out you bet I'm reaching for the muzzy.
If you have both a bow and a muzzleloader in your stand/blind you also have to be wearing orange.I don't think that you can use a bow for the November antlerless season.To fill a November antlerless tag.But why would anyone want to.You could just as easy get an antlerless bow tag.