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How many of you boys shoot shotgun in a Treestand, I don't even own one but had heard misconceptions about legality of it and have since been straightened out by the heros behind the computer screens of a local Facebook group.
Thanks for your input in advance...
Nothing illegal about it !
Glen
Some parts of Ontario,the control hunt is shotgun only. Michigan the same.
Ive never heard of that debate. I cant think of a logical reason as to why it would be illegal.
Anyways, like G Skinner said...totally legal
I can't make sense of that.
One of the guys I hunt with uses SG exclusive with sabots. Like a laser.
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Up until about 10 yrs ago you could not hunt from a elevated stand with a gun in Michigan but it has now changed so you can. I don't ever remember not being able to here in Ontario.
The source of where this all came from could very well have been an American from the Michigan area, friend of a friend blah blah but they are in the Windsor area and do have work in the states...
Im egumakated fairly well with the outdoors having grown up fishing and learning lessons from the old man who gave up hunting when I came along but still new to hunting myself, especially deer, and my hunting partner primary bow hunts deer so my contact with deer hunters with shotguns has been minimal.
Having never seen it on paper I thought I'd ask,
Thanks again.
no shotguns are good to go.. it's Uzis that are controversial.
What about a compound bow? Can u shoot those from a tree?
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I'll never understand why sarcasm ALWAYS ends up in threads with legit questions being asked.
Whats the point of a community if questions can't be asked without the threat or sarcasm from the members, glad everyone can get their post totals up adding unhelpful discouraging things to posts.
Topher, sooooo funny. I was just waiting on a dick comment to a genuine question.
Nailed it.
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Originally Posted by Stevedigs04
I can see where confusion might come about with this. Some states (Michigan) outlaw firearms in elevated stands. This was done for "safety" - hard to figure that out. Michigan saw the light a few years back and now allows it.
... used to be illegal in Michigan. It's legal there now.Quote:
Originally Posted by FisherHunter86
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A lot safer than shooting from the ground, at least the bullets are going down.Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
I would expect that a S&W Mod 29 would be ok in a Michigan tree stand...much handier and therefore safer than a shotgun.Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
My advice is tonignore whats legal and not legal in other jurisdictions and focus on Ontario.
As always check the books if unsure. Read it cover to cover
Shot my first buck ever from a treestand with a slug.
I thought that back in the 60's in Ontario we were not allowed to hunt from an elevated platform .
I may be wrong, but that's what I remember.
But that was a long time ago and my memory is not that great any more.
I started hunting for deer in Michigan in 1990 and it was legal to hunt from a tree stand or raise platform long before that. I used bow ,shotgun and ML. Tags were real cheap 15 bucks for Non residence and unlimited. Residence paid $4.00 or $5.00 /tag Lol, I killed on average 6 deer a year for 8 years,when I decided to slack off. Two of the tags were for bucks,although they cost $35.00. Each. Thoughts were the days.
Back in the 60's their were very few bow hunters and every body hunted from the ground. I started hunting in 64 but use to climb trees in the late 60's,after realizing you had a better view from a tree.
This law to firearm hunt from an elevated stand did not take effect until the fall hunt of 1998 before that it was illegal to be off the groundQuote:
Originally Posted by Greenhorn
Did you ever hunt in Michigan??? I spent pracially three months very year sitting in a tree stand and was NEVER sited for hunting illegally. I saw lots of DNR agents driving by. I would think,if I was breaking the law they would have a least give me a warning, more likely a ticket.
From what I can gather it was not legal to hunt from an elevated platform with a bow until 1975 and with a gun until 1998. Read this from a couple of different sources.
Just because you did something illegal for years doesn't make it legal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenhorn
I have a cousin that lives in Michigan. Both he and his brotherinlaw are hunting nuts (b-I-l is also a crown attorney). They were both very aware of this law and that it changed.
Use your google-fu if you doubt it. It appears the change from illegal to legal occurred in 1998.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=era...hanged&f=false
As a matter of fact I spent a lot of time there as my mother was born and raised there and my grandparents and uncles and cousins lived there. I hunted deer for well over 30 yrs in Michigan with bow, muzzleloader, shotgun and rifle. Our family owned our own hunting property and I shot my first deer well before I was ten yrs old. If you were hunting from an elevated stand prior to 1998 with a firearm in Michigan then YOU were breaking the law period! Don't care how many dnr officers you seen while doing this you were still wrong.
No to be too facetious; but with the urban sprawl along some of the boundary roads in most rural areas, it is almost time that they make it illegal, when hunting with a rifle, NOT to be in a treestand. (elevated).
... and I would agree - unfortunately!Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
way too many don't care about a save backstop and that's what you end up getting as so often: just another rule. at least I would hope that at the same time, it would come with a significantly extended rifle season (not ML, slug, etc.)
I guess I broke the law. Sorry, I also checked on the Michigan site. I'm real stickler for. Rules and regulations and never realize. Or read anything. Thanks for informing me.