Spotlighting Deer and Legal Shooting Hours

[murraywader]

Who thinks it’s legal to spotlight a deer?

[banded_mallard]

Who thinks it’s legal to spotlight a deer?

Using a light on your bow before legal shooting time closes is 100% legal. Same as thermal imagers before that time. That was straight from the green jeans mouth. He told me it’s basically a loop hole they can’t control under the current laws. I have no Idea if this is 100% correct but that’s what I was told by one of the game wardens in saluda county.

[Kioti]

Using a light on your bow before legal shooting time closes is 100% legal. Same as thermal imagers before that time. That was straight from the green jeans mouth. He told me it’s basically a loop hole they can’t control under the current laws. I have no Idea if this is 100% correct but that’s what I was told by one of the game wardens in saluda county.

I don't know the law but a game warden saying that doesn't make it true by a long shot.

[Tater]

Using a light on your bow before legal shooting time closes is 100% legal. Same as thermal imagers before that time. That was straight from the green jeans mouth. He told me it’s basically a loop hole they can’t control under the current laws. I have no Idea if this is 100% correct but that’s what I was told by one of the game wardens in saluda county.

That is correct. The only person I know to use a light on their bow was a game warden. He also had a pressure switch on his bow so he didn’t have to turn the light on until go time.

[Palmetto Duck]

That is correct. The only person I know to use a light on their bow was a game warden. He also had a pressure switch on his bow so he didn’t have to turn the light on until go time.

Pressure switch is the only way to go. And having a game warden tell you something g doesn’t mean much sometimes. My buddy once convinced a game warden the state hadn’t mailed him his federal stamp was why he didn’t have it. This was before you could purchase online from DNR and still had to go to post office or a sporting goods store....so just saying.

[BigBrother]

Pressure switch is the only way to go. And having a game warden tell you something g doesn’t mean much sometimes. My buddy once convinced a game warden the state hadn’t mailed him his federal stamp was why he didn’t have it. This was before you could purchase online from DNR and still had to go to post office or a sporting goods store....so just saying.

I've also had to correct and educate some LEO's on species on my strap.