It’s a gray area the regs state disabled hunters only last year, but the rules and laws seem to change at the game departments whims. Have to read the fine print every year to keep from becoming a felon. For instance I have always hunted with a fixed blade broad head (muzzy bone crusher) and last year they made mechanical broad heads legal. Year before they would have confiscated your bow, license and truck caught during the season with them in your possession.
Then there is the records Boone and crocket and what not that will only legitimize a “trophy” if it was taken with a bow with a draw weight over 40lbs, but state law requires 45lbs. Small game can be taken with any weapon, but forest grouse can only be taken with a rifle or shotgun during modern firearm season deer and elk. During muzzle loader and archery season a grouse cannot be taken with a rifle except a 22. Bird hunting during modern firearm season requires hunter orange clothing, a minimum of I think 120 square inches of it. Other seasons it is not needed. Certain areas require non toxic shot for all birds including upland birds (grouse, chucker, pheasant, quail) and can be ticketed for even possessing lead shot in that area. All waterfowl can only be taken with a shotgun and from a blue wing teal to a mallard to a goose requires different shot sizes. I could go on about this for days and days, Red tape so heavy a guy could suffocate in it before ever buying a license to go procure good clean sustainable GMO free steroid free pink slime free free range all organic wild meat to feed his family
They do change them. but usually they give a year warning and highlight changes.
It is Pope and Young for bow hunting. They require you to comply with state or provincial laws. and 45 bigger then 40 so you should qualify. But I didn’t see any mention of bow strength on the Pope and Young sight.
The forest grouse during deer/elk season requires an elk or deer permit to have buckshot. It is a poaching law. It is too easy to load your gun up with buckshot without a license, and claim you were hunting grouse. You can hunt both at the same time as well. You jump deer when hunting for grouse and vice versa.
It looks like you need a minimum of 400in of orange or pink on the upper half of the body visible 360 degrees.
The steel shot for waterfowl is a federal law in all states And I believe they require steel shot on federal property now. The pheasant/upland bird thing is in areas they release pheasants so they don’t die of lead poisoning after they release them. And since you have so many regulations, it is going to be easier just to use steel shot. you get caught because you accidentally left one in your hunting jacket. We can discuss the extra range and better knockdown power of lead shot, but it is also like using a 70lb bow vs a 40lb bow. If you are close enough, and shoot well enough, it doesn’t matter.
They did find out lead micro splinters so you may not find it all to get it out which leaves you and your family susceptible to lead poisoning.
all waterfowl can only be hunted with a shotgun per federal law. Rifles have been banned since 1934 migratory bird act.
And you jump over the Washington Idaho border and damn near every law changes. It’s frustrating as hell to me. It’s easier for me to just hunt archery and use steel shot for everything, keeps me pretty in the clear. Really my biggest gripe is Washington department of fish and wildlife if there is any single gray area rule or law, they leave it up to the discretion of the officer onsight
to determine final say. So if his wife packs him a steak for lunch and there was a lead shotshell in your truck hey no big deal. But if the barista at Starbucks burnt his coffee and the gas station refused his lotto ticket, I guess I’m getting a ticket for littering while out cleaning up trash in a shooting pit when I spit my dip on the ground and he is going to search my truck. And for whatever reason locality wise the Pacific Northwest is rather known for people having a bad day and making everyone else’s day bad because of it since they are in a place of power to do so.
Not enough people around here want to smile say hello how area you,specially in the woods. Instead they go straight to… well we don’t talk that way here on the forum. Had a long conversation with a coworker yesterday about this he just returned from a week Vacation in Montana where people act so different. Said it was like walking into a psych ward crossing the cascade mountain range
The federal laws revolving around the migratory birds don’t change much.
If you think they are bad, canadian mounties have the final authority, and if you look at them wrong, they will strip search your entire vehicle and leave you besides the road. They don’t have to have a reason.
It doesn’t surprise me the people are different across the cascades. Oregon breaks down into 6 different geo-political regions.
We had that happen at the border crossing between Detroit and Windsor. A girl in our car smarted off to one of the border guards. She got a full cavity search and we got the entire interior pulled out of the car including the door cards. Didn’t have the tools to put it all back together. 1970.
They can do that anywhere in Canada. One of our group members had their whole camper and back of the truck emptied on a logging road 30 miles from the nearest town. They were extremely grateful that is all they did. They could have torn it apart just like your car. The only advantage they had was they did have a set of tools. but it would have taken us two days working in black flies to put it back together instead of a couple of hours to put stuff back in.
I had a border crossing issue in Niagara back in the mid '70s but on the American side. A couple of college friends and I decided one evening to drive from Rochester NY to Niagara to see the falls (don’t ask me why we thought this was a good idea). We got there around midnight and couldn’t see anything and decided to go to see the Canadian side. Of course the lights were not on there too. So we turned around and came back. For some reason the US authorities thought it strange we were only in Canada for 15 minutes. Then the girl in our car didn’t have any ID. My hearing was always bad and my car had a bad muffler, so when the guard said something I interpreted as OK go on, I rolled up the window on his hand and started to drive off. My friend yelled and alerted me, and the guard gruffly said “over there!”. We got the third degree and they checked the car. They had every right to tear it apart, but didn’t. I guess if that had happened on the Canadian side I could have expected a car reduced to small pieces with a sawzall.
that is kinda crazy. I am right handed but Dad has one of those exact saws and I grew up using it, so now I think that right handed saws are difficult to use.
Yeah I selected and bought mine musta’ been around 2000.
My coming on 80 y.o. Father-in-law said he wanted me to take over all of the carpentry working. So he’s gifted me a new lower grade Black and Decker 7 1/4" circular saw.
Ha! I built a mobile home deck with it for him as a community service project. Melted out the brush holders ripping treated 2x6 deck boards.
So when I searched out and found this LH bladed one I made damn sure it had the h.d. brass brush holders with externally replaceable brushes.
I’ve know two really good old time carpenters after decades really hurt themselves with old saws that worn hung up their snap guards.
I believe this is the #1 most dangerous tool a fellow will ever use. I can see a firearms barrel end. I can see a chainsaws chain. Circular saw you cannot see the blade so much.
Really, really work to retrain yourself Jacob to get the eats-all blade best for you R.H., away from your leg.
Regards
Steve Unruh
I completely agree, a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands. My brother Jon sent one through his thigh years ago whole pile of stitches and staples to put him back together and a gnarly scar to tell the tale. That being said IV never been accused of being smart, some years ago my dad finally decided to upgrade to the newest latest and greatest Makita hypoidal drive and retire his ancient black and Decker all metal anti safety death dealer. It was retired to my hands, and just about finished this shed build with it, no safety guard heavy in the hand. Got to be careful with rowdy old school power tools, this girl bites
Dad had this long before I was born, don’t think it has ever had a set of brushes yet but I couldn’t throw it out it just keeps going. Not saying I won’t upgrade to a skill mag 77 when I get the chance, fell in love with them when I was framing and you climb around rafters setting rat runs and strong backs with one attached to your hip long enough you learn to love it for its light weight and grunt torque
I mentioned in another post we’ve had some rain in Scandinavia lately.
The video is an American report on current flooding in Sweden. My own pics from the woods around here aren’t quite as dramatic. Last pic is a road though - not a stream.
You are lucky, Jo. Your countryside is flooded with crystal clear water and not that muddy syrup like friends down the south. That car may go out of the water perfectly cleaned and would need just good hair dryer
Pfoe, mountains. Flood can change to disaster quickly. In our country where half is below sealevel this didnt happen since 1953. Two years ago villages were drowned in Germany and one or two weeks later water rose only two meters/ six feet. Strange situation but no problem at all. Then I saw the Sava, at the boarder Slivenia Croatia, higher the surrounding houses. Mmm, perfect recipe for disaster. And it wouldnt be the first time. Was that the Sava guys? Looks like a canal, but I think it was the Sava.
I knew that - but it still makes me wonder - If you get heavy rains - where does all the water go? Around here (anywhere except NL for that matter) any excess water the ground can’t handle, will end up in streams, creeks, rivers and eventually into the sea. Since your sea is positioned uphill - how do you handle gravity, so to speak? You can’t possibly pump it all, can you? Or, maybe your ground accepts more water? Most areas up here have only a thin layer of dirt on top of the granite bedrock.
To keep from commenting a feloning I quit hunting because of the at their wimps law changes and having to read the fine print with the help of a lawyer. The Land of the free. Not hardly compared to 100 years ago. But hey, it is getting the same everywhere on plant earth.
I’m sure I’m on several government watch list for my publicly expressed opinions already plus I’m involved with the trappers association and there problems confronting animal rights activism within the department of fish and wildlife so that puts a bunch more people watching me then playing with woodgas that’s probably another list growing my own food that’s another list being a firearm owner and proponent of self defense that’s a list I’m a follower of Christ sure that’s another list it could go on I’d say I have more than some anti nwo agenda opinions that put a target on me I’m what some would call a unsavory character, a deplorable, a right wing nut job,a gun nut that wants children killed, a racist or whatever else they choose to throw around as derogatory names these days for anyone that isn’t in lock step for the current thing
Oh well. Think I’ll go on a hike this weekend, archery season is getting close. Had a 5x5 bull elk in the garden the other day. Black berries are nearly ripe on the vine, blackcaps are showing up, stone plumbs are getting juicy and plump. Even had a trickle of rain the last few days,might be some mushrooms popping. Gonna go out and enjoy the day, might even wet a line for some fish, maybe finish the electrical in the shed and put up the solar system so I have some lights for late night tinkering
Had the first sweet peas from the little garden bed last night with fresh kale and rubby red chard what a treat! Simple livin is good livin
plus I’m involved with the trappers association and there problems confronting animal rights activism within the department of fish and wildlife so that puts a bunch more people watching me then playing with woodgas that’s probably another list growing my own food that’s another list being a firearm owner and proponent of self defense that’s a list I’m a follower of Christ sure that’s another list it could go on I’d say I have more than some anti nwo agenda opinions that put a target on me I’m what some would call a unsavory character, a deplorable, a right wing nut job,a gun nut that wants children killed, a racist or whatever else they choose to throw around as derogatory names these days for anyone that isn’t in lock step for the current thing
