Cross Bow education

[the blur]

Can I cross bow hunt if I go for the regular bow class, or do you need a special cross bow class ?

[WNYBuckHunter]

All you need is your regular hunter safety class and the online crossbow certificate.

[apoallo]

you dont even neeed the online certificate there is a certificate in the hunting reg magazine you get from where ever you get your tafgs from in there is a certificate you sign and date but you have to carry this with you while crossbow hunting along with your bow license. I am looking at it right now its on page 12 of the NYS hunting and trapping guide to Laws and regulations for 2011-2012

[WNYBuckHunter]

you dont even neeed the online certificate there is a certificate in the hunting reg magazine you get from where ever you get your tafgs from in there is a certificate you sign and date but you have to carry this with you while crossbow hunting along with your bow license. I am looking at it right now its on page 12 of the NYS hunting and trapping guide to Laws and regulations for 2011-2012

Thats the same thing as whats online. Not everybody gets a regs book anymore.

[Karpteach]

Am I wrong , that crossbows are allowed Only during the muzzle loader seaso??? Or did something change!

[BizCT]

you're correct, can use a crossbow during ML season.

HOWEVER, if you want to, you can use a crossbow during the gun season as well. I wouldn't, but some people might want to?

[the blur]

• I just took the bow hunter ed class. Not one mention of a cross bow.
  

[BizCT]

• I just took the bow hunter ed class. Not one mention of a cross bow.
  

You dont need to take bow hunter ed to hunt with crossbow. You have to take the gun hunter's safety course and sign the crossbow certificate.

[covert]

Now here's an "I wonder"; I wonder if/when they do allow crossbows in archery, will an archery class/license be required?

[WNYBuckHunter]

Of course it would. They would just add the crossbow to the bowhunter course curriculum. The big question will be what about people that already have the cert, will they be grandfathered in or have to take some short class or something like that? The DEC will let everyone know exactly what the details will be when/if it happens.

[G-Man]

^{I think a lot of instructors for bow will fight having to teach it so it will probably fall into regular gun course... just my opinion though..}

[sits in trees]

^{I think a lot of instructors for bow will fight having to teach it so it will probably fall into regular gun course... just my opinion though..}

when it becomes law they will have to teach it or dissappear like a fot in the wind.

[WNYBuckHunter]

G-Man, if they become legal during archery season, why would they put it in the gun course? Wouldnt make any kind of sense at all.

[fasteddie]

G-Man, if they become legal during archery season, why would they put it in the gun course? Wouldnt make any kind of sense at all.

Possibly the similarity of how they shoot .

A person can't even bowhunt unless they have taken the gun course . a few years ago My youngest son took the archery course and passed . The week before the season open , he went to get his archery license but couldn't because he hadn't taken the Gun safety Course . He had no intention of gun hunting but it was required . So , he got jilted out of bow hunting his 1st year .

[WNYBuckHunter]

Guess we will see what they do.