True in Ga. except on Corp of Engineer lands. Regs state that handgun is only to protect oneself against human predators, and cannot be used on animals......
Ben
Yep, same here which is really only logical. After all you are bow hunting.
It's nice that you're now covered since, like I'm sure many of you, my son and I go into areas where there are bear and cougars. However, hunting public land, the most dangerous critter out there walks on two legs. My son and I once came upon a guy berating a man in a wheel chair for hunting with a crossbow. He was threatoning to beat the man and take his bow and chair and leave him helpless in the woods. My son and I quickly put a stop to that, without the need of a firearm, but it goes to show the idiot low life's that walk among us. However while sleeping on a gravel bar, during a float trip, a firearm did come into play. My brother-in-law and I were just dozing off when a boat pulled up quietly. A man got out and started rumaging through our gear. The sound of a 12 ga being pumped sent him down river mighty fast. Another time, while walking a creek fishing, my son and his friend came upon some guys with guns who warned them away from the area and not too politely either. They'd either gotten too close to a pot crop or a Meth lab and could have easily just came up missing dropped down one of the many abandoned wells in the area! I'm disabled with severe heart and lung issues and, though I've practiced martial arts most of my life, I'm too old and in poor health to get in fights.
My main point though is that many look at the outdoors as a peaceful and safe place to be. It very well can be, but it can also be as dangerous as any dark alley, in a bad neighborhood, of a crime ridden city if you traspe around unprepared and unaware.
Evidrine, I hope your state realises that if a person is responsible enough to carry in the first place then they should be considered responsible enough to carry while pursuing a sport where the need for a firearm could easily, and often does, happen. You and your friends might try pushing that point by writing your state's congressman and pointing that fact out to them.
