Cross Bows NO Longer Legal In NY

[sidewinder]

got my licence and permits along with the 2013-2014 regs and guide and found on page four the artical stating the fact. kinnda sucks for those that just went out and purchased a new crossbow.

 

 

 

 

Crossbows No Longer Legal Hunting Implements in New York State

The law that formerly allowed big game hunting with crossbows was written with an expiration date of December 31, 2012. As the law has expired, crossbows are not currently legal hunting implements in New York State. For future updates, check the DEC website.

[oblivitar]

Something tells me they might be legal next year

[landtracdeerhunter]

Yep, NY. is cutting it's own throat. I'll hunt with mine in Ohio, a state that's for the sportsman.

[BizCT]

Yep, NY. is cutting it's own throat. I'll hunt with mine in Ohio, a state that's for the sportsman.

 

+1. I am using my in CT and PA.  NJ allows them also.

[gjs4]

Guess you have to use the same weapons you had used prior....... I am not for them for general use at all ... but I will say my guess is they will make them legal soon....also feeling like an early ML season is headed are way as per some of the DEC comments in pompous Piatts publication 

[HuntOrBeHunted]

The question just needs to be... What is legal in NY anymore ?!?!!??

[Arrow Flinger]

Guess you have to use the same weapons you had used prior....... I am not for them for general use at all ... but I will say my guess is they will make them legal soon....also feeling like an early ML season is headed are way as per some of the DEC comments in pompous Piatts publication 

 

Yep. They will have hunting season so screwed up in this state that I'll bite the bullet and spend my $$ and time hunting in Ohio!

[Five Seasons]

got my licence and permits along with the 2013-2014 regs and guide and found on page four the artical stating the fact. kinnda sucks for those that just went out and purchased a new crossbow.

 

 

 

 

Crossbows No Longer Legal Hunting Implements in New York State

The law that formerly allowed big game hunting with crossbows was written with an expiration date of December 31, 2012. As the law has expired, crossbows are not currently legal hunting implements in New York State. For future updates, check the DEC website.

 

thanks for the breaking news we didn't already know. Sounds like you made an ill researched purchase. enjoy your paper weight.

 

Something tells me they might be legal next year

 

how many times have I heard that?

 

Yep, NY. is cutting it's own throat. I'll hunt with mine in Ohio, a state that's for the sportsman.

 

because bowhunter license numbers have been steadily rising? And a plan to reduce the cost of licenses? yes, cutting their own throat indeed...

Edited August 28, 2013 by Belo

[landtracdeerhunter]

Belo, show me the Huntfax!

Edited August 28, 2013 by landtracdeerhunter

[Five Seasons]

regarding bow tag sales?

[LuckyPickle123]

Thank God

[specialk1791]

its only illegal if you get caught , if you are handicapped and want to go hunting and still love being in the outdoors and can not pull a bow back , why not go with it , this state is a joke when it come to the xbow issue

[jjb4900]

its only illegal if you get caught , if you are handicapped and want to go hunting and still love being in the outdoors and can not pull a bow back , why not go with it , this state is a joke when it come to the xbow issue

good thinking......

[growalot]

 

its only illegal if you get caught ,

No! it's still illegal ...your just punished if caught

 

With areas such as ours being given 28,000 doe tags..which amounts to around 90 per square mile if I recall....then you know the DEC is going to have to put on a push to allow x-bows in as a legal implement...the only real question is....are they going to screw up how they bring them into deer hunting

[PREDATE]

I relish the thought of being allowed to throw a kill-light or a NV scope on one for yotes. That's all I'd care to do with them, but then again poachers probably would too. I'm sure the poaching aspect plays a good sized role in deciding the legality of x-bows.

[Five Seasons]

its only illegal if you get caught , if you are handicapped and want to go hunting and still love being in the outdoors and can not pull a bow back , why not go with it , this state is a joke when it come to the xbow issue

 

6 posts in and he's a winner!

[BizCT]

its only illegal if you get caught , if you are handicapped and want to go hunting and still love being in the outdoors and can not pull a bow back , why not go with it , this state is a joke when it come to the xbow issue

I'm all for the xbow in NY, but not against breaking the law to hunt. I'll hunt with my xbow in other states until NY allows it again. If your handicapped, just gun hunt in NY this year.

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[landtracdeerhunter]

This state continues axing away at the tree. Sometime, that tree will fall. One had better hope it's notch was place in the right spot.

[NFA-ADK]

I don't like it's ability and allowed string to be locked into position while driving for poachers, that scares me.  I really do not understand why they did not allow it in rifle season again...  (Do they know something we don't?)  I have changed my view on it's use and now want it included in bow season, if it helps recruit just a few I am all for it...  I feel they should not allow it to be at full draw in a vehicle.

 

Being as dedicated a hunter as I am I can not fathom braking any law that would stop me from entering the woods, I would never knowingly brake a gun, crossbow or compound bow law for any game...  But yea 6 posts in and you are telling us to use a crossbow if we don't think we'll get caught?  Ethics is something this site values and is one of the reasons I enjoy the company that is kept on this site...  Respect, integrity and love not only of my sport but of the game I cherish to view and hunt.  These are the things this site values, not advocating braking the law just because you can get away with it...  

 

I could go deep into the woods with a spotlight and get a deer just about every year with my bow they seem to not care when I am hunting for yotes at night...  (They seem much more relaxed and even approach in curiosity...)  My integrity, ethics and love of fair chase will not allow it, this included following all the laws to the best of my ability.  I hope you will start to think the same way specialk1791, we argue about many things on this site yet one thing that persists among most hunters on this site is Respect, Ethics and Integrity.  Join the club we would love to have you!!!

Edited September 1, 2013 by NFA-ADK

[Big John]

Glad I didn't buy one now.....

[oblivitar]

I just took my wife to her bow hunting class this past weekend and the instructor was telling everyone in the class that xbows are legal and were grandfathered in or something if u already filled out that card that comes with the guidebook. He could have been talking out of his ass....not sure. But maybe worth checking into.

[Five Seasons]

I just took my wife to her bow hunting class this past weekend and the instructor was telling everyone in the class that xbows are legal and were grandfathered in or something if u already filled out that card that comes with the guidebook. He could have been talking out of his ass....not sure. But maybe worth checking into.

 

he is talking out of his ass. My wife is taking her class next week. It saddens me that when we registered I started talking about how great it was that rifle was approved in wayne county and his comment was "yeah now all we need to legalize is crossbow". I'm not against anyone having an opinion, but for the instructor of the archery course to have this mindset saddens me.

[hipjak]

Good !!!  Is a xbow really a bow or a cable driven rifle.. i am hunting with my trusty recurve

[Culvercreek hunt club]

It should sadden you since the majority do have than opinion.

[pawle76]

What should really sadden you is the fact that you are lucky to have a hunting season at all in NY with that Nazi you have as Governor. Between Cumo and Bloomberg NY has become the anti-gun nut headquarters.