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Legal Shooting Light #1248923
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What exactly is the definition of legal shooting light? Seems like a huge gray area based on your ability to see.


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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Jackson13] #1248946
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30 min before sunrise until sunset I believe.

Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Jackson13] #1248962
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daylight hours for deer...


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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: BhamFred] #1248968
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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
daylight hours for deer...


So that would have been 6:50 AM until 5:21 PM yesterday for deer? Official sunrise to sunset?

Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Joe4majors] #1248971
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Originally Posted By: Joe4majors
Originally Posted By: BhamFred
daylight hours for deer...


So that would have been 6:50 AM until 5:21 PM yesterday for deer? Official sunrise to sunset?


There is no official time. It varies based on weather etc. at 5:21 you're still well within legal time, but Alabama is not like Mississippi in that there's no 30 min rule pre and post sunrise/set. It's a pretty good rule of thumb though.

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Originally Posted By: Joe4majors
Originally Posted By: BhamFred
daylight hours for deer...


So that would have been 6:50 AM until 5:21 PM yesterday for deer? Official sunrise to sunset?


no


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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: BhamFred] #1248985
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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
Originally Posted By: Joe4majors
Originally Posted By: BhamFred
daylight hours for deer...


So that would have been 6:50 AM until 5:21 PM yesterday for deer? Official sunrise to sunset?


no


I'm glad this is being addressed because 5:21 in a field looks a whole lot brighter than 5:21 deep in the woods.

Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Remington270] #1248989
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Originally Posted By: Remington270
Originally Posted By: Joe4majors
Originally Posted By: BhamFred
daylight hours for deer...


So that would have been 6:50 AM until 5:21 PM yesterday for deer? Official sunrise to sunset?


There is no official time. It varies based on weather etc. at 5:21 you're still well within legal time, but Alabama is not like Mississippi in that there's no 30 min rule pre and post sunrise/set. It's a pretty good rule of thumb though.


Thanks.

Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Jackson13] #1249115
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I believe it has been said by some (I believe either a GW or a retired GW on this site) - that if you can't clearly read your hunting license without the aid of light, then it is too dark to be hunting.


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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Jackson13] #1249147
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If I can see.............then.................


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Originally Posted By: Hunting-231
I believe it has been said by some (I believe either a GW or a retired GW on this site) - that if you can't clearly read your hunting license without the aid of light, then it is too dark to be hunting.


shocked I can't read mine at high noon!



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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Jackson13] #1249189
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I shoot 50mm scopes so from 6am till 5:40 pm im good.

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Originally Posted By: deerkiller24
I shoot 50mm scopes so from 6am till 5:40 pm im good.


5:40 around Dec 20 is pitch black.

The fact you are using a 50mm versus a smaller objective will only increase the light to your eye by 1-2%, that per a Leupold engineer, your eye can register 1-2%. It's the quality of the glass that does the real work letting light through.



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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Jackson13] #1249235
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^^^ 2dogs forgot the JK at the end.

Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: top cat] #1249406
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Originally Posted By: top cat
If I can see.............then.................


So does that mean you can hunt half the night 4 or 5 days before the full moon when the moon is straight overhead at the time it would normally be dark? Because I you can see plain as day at that time on a clear day/night, especially with good optics.

I never understood the "until I can't see argument". Most of the time that is reasonable but there is a week or so every month which that definition won't work.

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Quote:
I believe it has been said by some (I believe either a GW or a retired GW on this site) - that if you can't clearly read your hunting license without the aid of light, then it is too dark to be hunting.


Bullcrap.

Either set a definitive time or let everyone use common sense and decide on their own. But one person who may be half-blind telling me I have to leave because HE can't read a license ain't worth doodly-squat.

As B'ham Fred said, it says "daylight hours." Use common sense and decide for yourself.


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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: Jackson13] #1249447
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What is so damned hard about understanding "daylight hours only"? Not moonlight or starlight or flashlight or spotlight or headlight. DAYLIGHT hours only! Good grief.


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So does that mean you can hunt half the night 4 or 5 days before the full moon when the moon is straight overhead at the time it would normally be dark? Because I you can see plain as day at that time on a clear day/night, especially with good optics.


You can, but you shouldn't. Because common sense should tell you that it's nighttime and not "daylight hours" as the regs state.


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Re: Legal Shooting Light [Re: deerkiller24] #1249455
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Originally Posted By: deerkiller24
I shoot 50mm scopes so from 6am till 5:40 pm im good.


ticket time at 5:40 crazy


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Yesterday at 5:40 I could have seen clearly enough on an open field or road with a good scope to pull the trigger. In the woods? No.


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