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FWC extends crossbow season; restricts firearms used on public-land spring turkey hunts
News Release
September 1, 2010
Contact: Tony Young, 850-488-7867
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) passed a new rule Wednesday in Pensacola Beach that will extend zonal crossbow seasons by a month, thereby running concurrently with archery season, beginning July 2011.
The FWC received requests from Florida hunters who want more crossbow-hunting opportunities - not only more hunting days, but also to be allowed to take deer of either sex, which is legal in many other states, including Georgia and Alabama.
Because of the request, the FWC checked with Florida's hunters through an online poll, and more than 70 percent of those who responded supported increasing crossbow opportunities on private lands.
The new rule adds 30 days to the crossbow season in zones A, B and C, and it adds 33 days in Zone D, thereby making it coincide with the archery season.
Starting with the 2011-2012 hunting season, any hunter with a hunting license, deer permit and crossbow permit will be able to get in the woods a month early on private lands and use a crossbow (or a bow) to take deer of either sex.
This rule is intended to give hunters more opportunities and enable youths and others who have difficulty using a vertical bow to have more hunting days, thereby helping to recruit and retain more people into the tradition of hunting.
Good, they did it, now I have time to save for a crossbow next year!
Gonna be a blast. Can't wait to have my boy in the blind with me and let him pull the trigger on my CB
it sucks that it is for private lands only.. there are alot of women and kids that would benifit from a crossbow on wma's
That sucks! I am all for the people that must use a crossbow due to age or injury, but I think that some people take the crossbow route because they are to lazy to put the time into a regular bow. JMO!
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