Originally Posted by BuckRidge17
Originally Posted by BC
Originally Posted by Clem
Thanks, BC. Didn't realize they were in the MZ season-week last year.


West Virginia added a true "traditional" season this year, to be held in January only for flintlock or caplock percussion rifles (no optics) and long bows or recurves (no compounds, crossbows, etc.)




Wheeler Wildlife Refuge has a flintlock / primitive hunt every January. Me and a buddy watched a boatload of guys run a huge 140-150 class buck off of an island up there two years ago. We were bow hunting by the main river and there was a slough behind us with a chain of islands out in it. They were dropping a guy off at the end of the island with a flintlock and then motoring to the other side and getting out and walking the island. Totally illegal. That old buck got up and walked across that slough about 100 yards from us because he could hear them coming. They were making all kinds of racket.
What made it illegal, the fact they did it on an island ?



Man drives are illegal on WWR. There’s also restrictions to hunting islands less than 40
acres.


"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."

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