Poll about allowing suppressors for hunting purposes

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Allow suppressors in Oklahoma for hunting purposes

  • Yes allow suppressors for hunting purposes

    Votes: 254 84.1%
  • No don't allow suppressors for hunting purposes

    Votes: 48 15.9%

  • Total voters
    302

gillman7

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Let me ask this question. Are the suppressors for hunting on shotguns or rifles or both?

Actually, they make suppressors for both. I would think that if the vote was to legalize one, it would be the same for the other.

I have never shot a shotgun with one, I wonder how much it would change the velocity and accuracy with multiple projectiles? Would it still be viable to bird hunt with it?

I could see where you would have significant reason for ear protection for this. I know when I am hunting with a shotgun, I shoot more often than I do with a rifle.
 

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Actually, they make suppressors for both. I would think that if the vote was to legalize one, it would be the same for the other.

I have never shot a shotgun with one, I wonder how much it would change the velocity and accuracy with multiple projectiles? Would it still be viable to bird hunt with it?

I could see where you would have significant reason for ear protection for this. I know when I am hunting with a shotgun, I shoot more often than I do with a rifle.

The shotgun suppressors I've seen still have nearly full length barrels that are heavily ported inside the suppressor tube. That holds the wad together but the porting will bleed off gas, which will reduce velocity over a full length barrel with a thread on suppressor using ony baffles (which wouldn't work with wads).
 

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I saw a TV program a couple of years ago, where some guys were dove hunting near an urban area in Tx, and they were using shotguns with 2' or longer barrel extensions to quiet them down. It wasn't much louder that a soft boom. Later the next year one of our machinist built one for his pump gun, and it worked really well. We got to talking to one of our local game rangers about it that works for us part-time on his days off, and he said it wouldn't be legal in Ok???? I don't understand why?
 

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I am all for it myself. There has been some great discussion on here about to use or not to use, but I haven't seen any good reason not to make it legal.If you don't want to use one and they are legal then don't do it.
On another note, did anyone ever come up with a list of what animals can be hunted with one now. I talked with the ODWC about this a few years ago but don't remember wich animals are fair game.I do remember coyotes were not on the list.

Scott
 

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I will never understand the poaching argument - if the suppressor is legal in the first place, then sure - I'm totally going to spend $200 for my stamp, subject myself to an auditing process with the BATFE, and then use it to poach deer????

Safety of others is only a concern if I'm using sub-sonic ammo and I honestly can't see any reason to use sub-sonic ammo - but even if I did - hearing a shot is hardly going to do me any good if the bullet is traveling faster than the speed of sound - I guess a super-sonic near miss would be counted as a warning and I would hit the dirt, but a bullet traveling through the woods is going to make some noise as it passes by hitting brush/trees, etc...

There is just no logical reason to ban Silencers for any rifle-hunting that I can see.
 

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On another note, did anyone ever come up with a list of what animals can be hunted with one now. I talked with the ODWC about this a few years ago but don't remember which animals are fair game.I do remember coyotes were not on the list.
Scott

Feral swine are the only thing currently that can be hunted with a suppressor I believe.
 

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Feral swine are the only thing currently that can be hunted with a suppressor I believe.

Coyotes are also considered "non-game animals" I think - technically they fall into fur bearers, but for purposes of hunting and not trapping, I can't see how they're considered a "game animal".

I suppose the same logic would fall upon Squirrels.
 

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Coyotes are also considered "non-game animals" I think - technically they fall into fur bearers, but for purposes of hunting and not trapping, I can't see how they're considered a "game animal".

I suppose the same logic would fall upon Squirrels.

Your thinking and logic is incorrect. Squirrels and Coyotes are both "Game Animals". Title 29 2-116 "Game Mammal" is any mammalian species normally sought after by sportsman and protected by this code, or any part of such animal.
 

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