SB 165 signed in

[Bearco]

Senate Bill 165 was signed in and made effective on 06/05/08. This makes crossbows legal for deer and makes primitive firearms legal, not just black power.

 

[spanky]

crossbows legal for deer for anyone?

 

[Bearco]

crossbows legal for deer for anyone?

Legal for any licensed hunter. The primitive weapons it is talking about are cartrige type, single shot black powder rifles for the "muzzel loader" season. These include the 45/70 that mississippi has been using.

 

[spanky]

 

[jmcrawf1]

so .45-70 handi rifles are game for next season?

 

[JDJHNTR]

Anyone looking for 45/70 Handi Rifle with synthetic stocks in excellent condition, I have one listed in the firearms classifides.......

 

[Bearco]

NEWS FROM LDWF:

L.D.W.F. ISSUES LIST OF APPROVED PRIMITIVE WEAPONS FOR 2008-09 PRIMITIVE HUNTING SEASON

In a response to the recent approval of Act 51, which partly consists of changing the language from a muzzleloader season to a primitive firearm season, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has issued a list of approved primitive firearms for the 2008-09 Primitive Firearm Season.

All of the approved primitive weapons meet the criteria set forth by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission as authorized primitive firearms. The criteria is a single shot, breech loading, metallic cartridge rifle with metallic cartridges loaded with either black powder or modern smokeless powder, .38 caliber or larger, of a kind or type manufactured prior to 1900 and replicas, and reproductions or reintroductions of that type rifle having an exposed hammer. The pre-1900 distinction applies only to the firearm and not the ammunition. All approved primitive firearms may be fitted with magnified scopes.

Approved single shot breech loading primitive weapons:

· Sharps rifles or replicas
· Remington Rollingblock rifles or replicas
· Ballard rifles
· Maynard rifles or carbines
· Burnside carbines
· Frank Wesson rifles
· Farrow rifles
· Remington Hepburn rifles
· M1873-1888 Springfield (Trapdoor) rifles and carbines and replicas
· Snider (British) rifles and replicas
· Wesson & Harrington 1871 rifles
· New England Firearms or Harrington & Richardson Handi rifles in caliber larger than .38
· Winchester M1885 Hi Wall or Lo Wall rifles or replicas (Also Browning B78 or 1885) .38 or larger
· Knight KP-1 in caliber .38 or larger
· CVA Optima Elite in caliber .38 or larger
· Traditions Pursuit break-open single shot in .38 caliber or larger

Non-approved single shot breech loading rifles:

· Ruger Number 1 and Number 3 (Reason: No exposed hammer)
· Thompson Center Contender or Encore Carbines (Reason: Designed after 1900)
· Mossberg SSi Single Shot Rifle (Reason: No exposed hammer and designed after 1900)

A primitive firearm license, formerly sold as a muzzleloader license, is required for the taking of deer during the primitive firearm season in addition to the required basic and big game hunting licenses. During the still hunt and with-or-without dogs segments of the (conventional firearms) deer season, the primitive firearm license is not required.

For more information on Louisiana hunting regulations, visit the LDWF Web site at www.wlf.louisiana.gov.

 

[JDJHNTR]

The Knight KP-1, CVA Optima and the Traditions Pursuit were all designed after 1900? I dont just mean the companies but the actual design???????????????

 

[Manimal]

Is a Crossbow considered primitive, or Archery like a Bow...so either sex is legal during the hunting season unless specified otherwise?

 

[LACamper]

So did they move the inline muzzle loaders into the modern season?

 

[cajun 22]

The only changes made listed above are for the "breech loading, single shot rifles" not muzzleloaders.