I need your help to solve a hunting problem. What has produced this need are the regulations governing the small game season and the hunting of hogs simultaneously on a particular NWR in the Mississippi Delta. On this NWR we have not been able to hunt small game with bow and arrow until the forthcoming 2010-2011 hunting season. However, we are restricted to points and that includes the use of field points to hunt small game, no broad heads. The rules of the NWR stipulate that in order to hunt hogs we must use the same heads as mandated for the small game season. Therefore, I would have to hunt hogs with points only. There is no way I am going to shoot a hog, no matter what its size, with a point. Can you guys in your collective wisdom possibly help me come up with a point that will look like a point, be classified as a point, and yet have the sharpness to penetrate a hog and bring it down with relative ease? You could probably market the head as a small game head with the additional advantage of hunting hogs with it. If such a head already exists can you tell the name of the head and where I can but it.
Please let me know what you think about my request and the possibility of creating such a head. If any of you sponsors on this site can and want to market such a point be sure and market it as a small game point and state in the advertising that the head is capable of being used for hogs.
Thank folks for you kind attention to my request.
Not that this helps your cause, but up here there is a park...Orion Oaks...They allow bow hunting, during already established seasons and even state that in their fliers that are posted everywhere. I inquired about duck hunting and small game hunting with my longbow, and was told absolutely not, but Michigan law says you can use a bow and arrow to take both ducks and small game, and they say during established seasons it's OK, but that it's-in the same breath- not OK.
I have said it a thousand times. Involve politics, and TO MUCH OVERSIGHT, and everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
If you can figure a way around your problem, see if you can figure out mine. LOL
It has taken three years of letters and e-mails to get them to conform to state law and allow us to hunt small game on the refuge. They are really strict on this particular refuge. Don't get caught with a bow during gun season on this refuge either, even though the state allows bowhunting during the gun season. This is why I am saying that it going to take some creativity to address this problem and stay within the law.