Support Florida's Proposal to allow Air Guns for Deer and Turkey!

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Bullfrog

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Please take this survey put out by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to voice your support for a proposed rule change to allow PCPs to take deer and turkey. .40 minimum for deer, .20 minimum for turkey. 

Also, if you happen to believe .30 or .357 would be appropriate for deer, please let them know that too:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FWC-Proposed-Rule-Changes-2018-19

There's no requirement that you be a Florida resident to respond. Out-of-state turkey hunters are important to Florida hunting, so the opinion of anyone who may come here to AG hunt game is important. 
 
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"Grumpytroll"New Florida FWC WMA brochures for 2018-2019 season is on line .30 call and above for deer and list pcp for turkey no caliber listed now I need to get a .35cal pcp or build one.
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The reason there's no caliber listed for turkeys is that on the WMAs is that only air bows can be used for turkeys. It can be an air bow of any size. But it must propel a bolt or arrow. The reason for this is that Florida in recent years has restricted rifle use for turkeys on public land for safety reasons. In the old days, one could use a .22 rimfire to take a turkey in a WMA. But not any more. Whether it be with bullets or pellets or airguns or firearms, they don't want anyone using a single slug-type projectile to turkey hunt in WMAs. Too many people take pot shots at gobblers across clear cuts where you really can't tell if you're shooting a gobbler or a decoy or whether there's a camoed hunter in the woodline behind the gobbler. 

On private land, turkeys can be taken with a .20 or larger PCP shooting whatever projectile you want. 
 
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"Grumpytroll"New Florida FWC WMA brochures for 2018-2019 season is on line .30 call and above for deer and list pcp for turkey no caliber listed now I need to get a .35cal pcp or build one.
Grumpy
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The reason there's no caliber listed for turkeys is that on the WMAs is that only air bows can be used for turkeys. It can be an air bow of any size. But it must propel a bolt or arrow. The reason for this is that Florida in recent years has restricted rifle use for turkeys on public land for safety reasons. In the old days, one could use a .22 rimfire to take a turkey in a WMA. But not any more. Whether it be with bullets or pellets or airguns or firearms, they don't want anyone using a single slug-type projectile to turkey hunt in WMAs. Too many people take pot shots at gobblers across clear cuts where you really can't tell if you're shooting a gobbler or a decoy or whether there's a camoed hunter in the woodline behind the gobbler. 
On private land, turkeys can be taken with a .20 or larger PCP shooting whatever projectile you want.
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Yep that is why I wrote no caliber listed should have made myself clear that pellets not allowed for turkey only bolts or arrows.
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No additional license needed. Just whatever else you normally need to hunt deer (for example, in a WMA that doesn't have quota hunts or special use permits, you'll need a hunting license, a WMA stamp, and a deer stamp). 

The new regulations aren't out yet, but the new WMA brochures are out on the FWC's website.

PCPs will be legal in General Gun season, Fall Turkey Season, and Spring Turkey Seasons, but only on private land. WMAs will also allow them but you'll have to consult each WMA brochure to see what and when they can be used in that WMA, except that no WMA will allow them in Spring Turkey Season just as they allow no rifles whatsoever for safety's sake.

 
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