How Far is Too Far? Wyoming Legislature Mulls Shot Distance Restrictions

[BrentD]

I imagine a white board room at state game agency offices where there is a working matrix on the wall.
Columns and variables for acceptable wound/loss, social acceptance, NR revenue, season lengths weighed by hunter success and other mortality, opportunity vs quality, etc.

It won't change wounding rates. But by god, it would change game populatios in size and quality.

Whomever started this thread, please stop and do not do this again. I am getting hot flashes and sweating uncontrollably.

 

[Doublecluck]

Probably the best way to nix most of the long range stuff is to regulate the rangefinders. You make anything over say a 600 yard rangefinder illegal for a party to possess while hunting and all but the most irresponsible hunters are going to have to try to get closer.

 

[Forkyfinder]

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[sclancy27]

Think making turrets illegal would be the best bet. Hard to shoot 900 when you can’t dope your scope guys will still do that on 10x

I think companies would just make a scope with a reticle you could push out a long ways. I can shoot out to 600 in my 6.5 creed with no dialing and that is meh reticle. Different caliber and better reticle.....800+ would not be that difficult.

 

[BrentD]

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Make it 200 yds

 

[88man]

so i guess that makes a range finder mandatory?

 

[Wind Gypsy]

I think companies would just make a scope with a reticle you could push out a long ways. I can shoot out to 600 in my 6.5 creed with no dialing and that is meh reticle. Different caliber and better reticle.....800+ would not be that difficult.

Shoot, muh buckmasters BDC scope been doin it for 25 years!

 

[Deleted member 16864]

100 yards is too far for some. 500 isnt far at all for others. Highly situational and weather/skill involved.

Would we legislate how far an animal can be from a road to make more hunters waste less ? 1 mile is too far for some and 5 miles is just getting started hunting.

If the concern is to limit tech to preserve opportunity - great - but id be inclined to think habitat, conservation easements, and migration corridors would do more for that then putting a law in place no one can enforce regarding shot distance.

Equipment restrictions are the way to go.

 

[cur dog]

Iron sights.

 

[jeff_gibbons]

"If a hunter can stay so far away that there’s no chance of a mule deer seeing or hearing anything suspicious, they said, then the interaction that defines hunting eventually breaks down."

I think that's most sysinct argument yet.

Agree. However, we don’t need a law or more government involvement.

We need to bring back old fashioned shame and ridicule and apply liberally to those that disrespect our game.

 

[BrentD]

Agree. However, we don’t need a law or more government involvement.

We need to bring back old fashioned shame and ridicule and apply liberally to those that disrespect our game.

You have not hung out on the internet much. Does not work. Frankly, never did. After all that is how we got here.

 

[Bighorner]

Agree. However, we don’t need a law or more government involvement.

We need to bring back old fashioned shame and ridicule and apply liberally to those that disrespect our game.

Just to play devil's advocate, they are pretty involved already. I talk to a lot more game wardens than all other law enforcement agencies combined.

Hunting has a pile of laws and regulations that I constantly pay attentiontion to. I watch where I park, I watch where I'm walking, I watch how I dress. I keep the stack of paperwork on me (more individual articles than I needed to drive there), I watch what type specific equipment I am allowed to hunt with, I watch how I break down the animal and how long I have before it must be on ice.

I'm missing a few, but hunting is one of the most regulated activities you will participate in outside of running a business. I'm sure spotlights wasn't in volume 1 of the regulations, but I'm thankful it's there now.

I'm not for more regulation, but you get my point.

 

[JM77]

It won't change wounding rates. But by god, it would change game populatios in size and quality.

Maybe a little quality. Maybe...

 

[Wind Gypsy]

I think it's a conversation worth having and considering in specific cases. But much better by the game agency than the legislature.

 

[BrentD]

I think it's a conversation worth having and considering in specific cases. But much better by the game agency than the legislature.

No. The legislature will have to step in eventually.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

No. The legislature will have to step in eventually.

Why?

 

[BrentD]

Why?

Because it would probably be seen as a n infringement on 2a.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Because it would probably be seen as a n infringement on 2a.

Huh? There are already restrictions on weapons for hunting.

 

[BrentD]

Huh? There are already restrictions on weapons for hunting.

There are, but that was then, and this is now. I don't care just do it.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Because it would probably be seen as a n infringement on 2a.

First off, that's an invalid "stretch".

Secondly, if so, then what is the role of the Wyoming Legislature? How does it "step in"?