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[OakLeaf]

Yep, it's the range of the projectile that's the issue. (Also that they still have to have a state license, and bow season here is four months long as opposed to the gun season, which is never more than two weeks plus special seasons.)

We don't allow deer hunting with rifles at all in Ohio. The range is too long. Shotguns only in the main deer gun season, then there at least used to be a weekend handgun season - not even sure if they do that any more. Small game can be hunted with small-caliber rifles in their seasons.

A lot of municipalities near us have licensed a handful of bowhunters to control deer. AFAIK though, there are few if any places near us that have both municipal hunting regulation *and* lot sizes large enough to require homeowner permission. As I understand it, they hunt only in parks.

Still, the patchwork of property lines and jurisdictions is an issue. There were a couple of incidents I've read about already this fall (not on our land), where a deer was wounded, either by a car strike or a less-than-perfect shot, and kept crossing political boundaries or property lines, making it exceedingly difficult for anyone to finally put it out of its misery. Even though our property is posted, I'm aware that it's pretty much inevitable that sooner or later, one of our neighbors will track a wounded deer across our property line, and we'll have no real choice but to let them finish it.

Which I still much prefer to our other, former neighbor's "target" shooting in random directions that used to have bullets bouncing off our roof ... thankfully they were at least far enough away that there wasn't enough velocity to penetrate ...



... this thread has drifted, hasn't it? <guilty>