3 Deer Hunting Equipment You Should Know About - Outdoors - Hunting

White tail deer hunting is often a dream for many avid deer hunters. They wait for the fall season to go to the woods and pursue this species in home of catching a prized white tail buck.

To make deer hunting successful, along with proper planning, any deer hunter needs to be ready with adequate knowledge about the hunting procedure itself. First, he should possess a hunting license.

Then he must learn some basic tips and carry only legal hunting weapons. Many prefer to carry their desired equipment but there are essential ones which should not be neglected. He must also abide by certain norms of deer hunting that can vary according to the State they are hunting in.

Deer equipment should be applied according to the three deer hunting seasons. Here is a list of these three weapons:

1. Before the Gun season, comes the archery season. During this season, a deer hunter can utilize modern compound bows, recurve bows and arrows along with primitive recurves and long bows. In the late archery deer hunting season, he or she can use a crossbow. But the hunter must remember to remove arrows from the crossbow string the moment legal hunting hour is over, even if they are still in the field.

2. For the firearms season, a deer hunter can take legal shotguns, handguns, pistols with cartridges, rifles, muzzle loading guns and handguns. Minimum caliber or gauge limit cannot be exceeded. It is equally applicable for rimfire and centrefire rifles due to ethical reasons. Full metal bullets are banned from application. Permission is granted for more than one legal Firearm. In military zones handguns are strictly not allowed.

3. In the muzzleloading season, only muzzleloaders are allowed. Both bullet and powder Firearm can be filled from the muzzle. Synthetic socks, telescopic and fiber optic sights, in-line ignition systems, advanced conical or sabot bullet designs can be equipped with the muzzleloading rifle. A hunter can also keep stock of black powder substitutes like Pyrodex with him. Wood stocked, iron sighted rifles with round lead balls and traditional black powder charges are the traditional counterpart to modern substitutes.

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