Jerry M
Ultimate Member
HoCo park rangers are frequently at AGC shooting suppressed .308 win’s they use for deer eradication. Sounds there’s a deer problem in that Co that would benefit from additional bow hunting.
HoCo park rangers are frequently at AGC shooting suppressed .308 win’s they use for deer eradication. Sounds there’s a deer problem in that Co that would benefit from additional bow hunting.
More bow hunting, longer ML seasons, longer firearms season, Sunday hunting, and allowing rifles (at least some calibers) in western hoco would all help.
Though I’d like and want all that, I doubt allowing rifles would do much. Rifles shotgun with sabots is just as effective out to the ranges most can hunt unless it’s a big farm.
But the rest should help. Saw maybe 50 of them out grazing over a mile and a half in the neighborhood down to the river at 6pm two evenings ago.
There is a lot of property in the west end of the county that would benefit from rifle hunting. The suggested max range for a slug gun is 75-100 yards. A good .30-30 would double that range, a 7mm mag would quadruple it, and a .308 or 30-06 would give you 10x the range over the shotgun.
One square acre is about 69 yards per side. If you shoot across that diagonally (97 yards) you are pushing the limits of a slug gun. The way my 20 acre property is laid out, I could take safe shots near the effective limit of a .308 or 30-06. Even if they restricted calibers to certain acre requirements, on private property only, or even rifles for does only you could easily increase the harvest numbers.
With rifles slugs. Saboted slugs can manage 300yd shots fine. Muzzleloaders can manage 250yds fine.
I hear you, a .308 can easily manage 400 with the same ease. It would help, but it isn’t like current allowed weapons max out at 100yds.
Step 1, de throne Calvin Ball. Get the anti redistricting clan on board with you. His removal from authority is the first step to solving problems in HoCo.
No. Even when Kittleman was in office, the changes basically had to go through the Howard County delegation. I always though it odd that the 50 yard rule made it past the Montgomery County Delegation, but not HoCo. One basically needs to get the HoCo delegation to approve the changes, then Annapolis will rubber stamp them.