Pretty much all of archery which is a month before gun, then all thru gun.What are the dates for Deer, Archery Season in Georgia? I live in Gordon County. Looking at the published book, it looks like Archery ends on Oct. 13 for me. However I have seen other places list the end date as Jan. 15, 2024.
You can use archery equipment during the archery, primitive weapons, and firearms deer seasons.What are the dates for Deer, Archery Season in Georgia? I live in Gordon County. Looking at the published book, it looks like Archery ends on Oct. 13 for me. However I have seen other places list the end date as Jan. 15, 2024.
This correct. I'll add that you do still have to wear the required orange during primitive weapons and gun season if you are hunting anywhere that is is not archery only.You can use archery equipment during the archery, primitive weapons, and firearms deer seasons.
I know that and you know that, but this year's regulations don't read that way.You can use archery equipment during the archery, primitive weapons, and firearms deer seasons.
The current listing is what the actual regulation is and is how we presented it for years. Listing the first day of the archery season through the end of the firearms season led people to believe that hunter orange wasn't required during PW and firearms and that WMAs that were open state season for archery meant archery every day of the archery, firearms, and primitive weapons seasons.I know that and you know that, but this year's regulations don't read that way.
Understood.The current listing is what the actual regulation is and is how we presented it for years. Listing the first day of the archery season through the end of the firearms season led people to believe that hunter orange wasn't required during PW and firearms and that WMAs that were open state season for archery meant archery every day of the archery, firearms, and primitive weapons seasons.
I think it is. In a failed effort to make it easier to understand, we ran with the other presentation for several years until the problems started to surface. We've gotten a lot of calls too, hopefully we can clarify it better without creating problems elsewhere. It's like whack a mole dealing with that reg book.Understood.
I don't know if this is the first year it was presented differently, but I had a few different folks send me screenshots and ask if archery was over.
I just started hunting in Georgia about 3 years ago. This is the first time I have seen it presented this way.Understood.
I don't know if this is the first year it was presented differently, but I had a few different folks send me screenshots and ask if archery was over.
I submit this could be easily clarified with a database overlay in the DNR Hunting GIS mapping system. Simply upload the various dates/hunting options as an attribute to each of the various objects in the GIS.I think it is. In a failed effort to make it easier to understand, we ran with the other presentation for several years until the problems started to surface. We've gotten a lot of calls too, hopefully we can clarify it better without creating problems elsewhere. It's like whack a mole dealing with that reg book.
While that would be more explicit viewing the regulations online, it doesn't solve the issue for the regulation book which a lot of people still use. My point is that our hunting regulations, and most especially WMA regulations, are ridiculously convoluted and confusing. Because of that every time you try to make something easier to read you may cause problems and confusion elsewhere.I submit this could be easily clarified with a database overlay in the DNR Hunting GIS mapping system. Simply upload the various dates/hunting options as an attribute to each of the various objects in the GIS.
Threshold capability, click on a WMA and the GIS reflects valid hunting methods and dates. Click on a National Forest object, same thing.
Objective capability would have the application show by date and location show what game you could hunt and what are the valid weapons (e.g., bear and buck only with archery, PW, modern firearms or bear and either sex for archery only).
Doing away with ads and just paying for printing has been discussed lately. I've been advocating for simplifying to more uniform rules on WMAs for years, but very little progress has been made.Is it possible to do each WMA in a uniform format? That way they have the information there instead of wondering stuff like, "well it's not there so does that mean I can do it?"
And does the state really need to sell that many ads? You could get more hunting info printed and have less formatting issues and page referencing errors without so many of them I would think.
But I do know what you're thinking right now.... "everybody's an expert!"
Well I know of 2 Game Wardens that would love for that to happen.... they're tired of the questions.Doing away with ads and just paying for printing has been discussed lately. I've been advocating for simplifying to more uniform rules on WMAs for years, but very little progress has been made.