Airbow

[Powers92]

The 2021 season will be my first venture into Muzzleloaders and Archery. So my questions are primarly for the Virginia hunters.

Can I use the Texan with an arrow during the archery season? Can I use the Sen-X Steambow during archery as well? 

Is there a pcp air rifle that I can use during the muzzleloader season? 

I did look up the VA hunting regulations and they are not very clear on this?

 

[Gettsgunner]

I'm pretty sure Virginia rules and regulations are like Marylands.You can hunt whitetail deer with an airbow during the firearms season only.Not the archery season.

 

[Ripper]

I'm pretty sure Virginia rules and regulations are like Marylands.You can hunt whitetail deer with an airbow during the firearms season only.Not the archery season.

Although I lived in Maryland most of my life, now I live back in Pennsylvania where I was born. But here as far as muzzle loader hunting they are pretty specific on what you can use. They have the primitive season which is flintlocks and they have a in-line muzzleloader season and in both seasons you have to use those exact type of muzzleloaders. There are no substitutions. They are pretty specific in archery also. I can remember back when I was young you could not bait deer And you could not use crossbow’s unless you had a note from your doctor saying that you couldn’t use a long bow.But that’s a different subject.I wouldn’t rely on what people told you here about hunting rules anyway. I would call the DNR and find out.

 

[Chickenthief]

And bear in mid that the Texan does not accomodate arrows shorter than barrel length very good.

The SS length barrel will fair ok but not with the shroud/muffler in place. Vanes flapping out and what they hit going out the tube/shroud is key.

 

[Powers92]

Barrowing directly from the DNR. "Muzzleloading shotguns/rifles, arrowguns, or archery tackle may be used to hunt during the muzzleloading and firearms seasons." 

"Archery equipment may include: longbows, recurves, compounds, crossbows, sling-bow and pneumatic powered arrowguns/airbows. (Persons with a disabil- ity which hinders them from drawing a bow/crossbow may use an arrowgun during archery seasons when in possession of an authorization form provided by DWR and signed by their physician."