Stupid Question Alert

[Specializedjon]

What's the definition of "Legal Shooting Hours" in TN?

I know if says "30 min. before and 30 min. after sunrise/sunset" but is there a specific TIME?

For instance.....I was able to see clearly out to 100+ yards last night at 1930 last night (7:30 pm @gasman )

 

[tahtah]

I think it's based on 30 minutes before and after sunrise and sunset times.

 

[Jcalder]

Yes. It's a very specific time. There's charts in the hunting reg book but also most weather apps have a sunrise and sunset time.

 

[Jcalder]

Here's tomorrows times for my location.

 

[ImThere]

 

[ImThere]

Bwahahaha!!! @Specializedjon j/k!!

 

[gasman]

What's the definition of "Legal Shooting Hours" in TN?

I know if says "30 min. before and 30 min. after sunrise/sunset" but is there a specific TIME?

For instance.....I was able to see clearly out to 100+ yards last night at 1930 last night (7:30 pm @gasman )

If you can see, then its legal to shoot. #hatchiebottomboyz

 

[cbhunter]

Does the bright moonlight affect these times at all?

Also do you own a zeiss or any state records?

 

[Snake]

If you can see, then its legal to shoot. #hatchiebottomboyz

Winner , winner chicken dinner , bdabop , bidabang here we have the answer !! @gasman

 

[Crappieaddict]

I'll bet Seek One don't have to follow them rules.

 

[ImThere]

I'll bet Seek One don't have to follow them rules.

Hard to see the sun go down with the porch light!! Bwahahaha!

 

[batten_down]

Lol, this thread.

I was a guest one time hunting some private in lower Alabama. 20 years ago roughly. Anyway, the landowners son wouldn't go out to sit until about an hour before dark. He stayed out until 11 or midnight. He was on a cut beanfield on the full moon with a big light-gathering scope. He saw more deer than any of us. And while he didn't kill one while I was there, he had several nice deer on the wall. It was like nothing, he grew up doing it this way and that's how it was. Not my cup of tea, I never went back. Incidentally, the farm bordered a piece that was owned and managed by Spook Spahn. That's what I was told anyway.

 

[Mr.Bro]

Think we had a heated discussion about this last year. Shoot a deer 35 minutes after official sunset? Does that make you a poacher?

 

[skipperbrown]

An AL wildlife officer once told me if he had to use a flashlight to read my license, I was getting a ticket.

 

[Jcalder]

An AL wildlife officer once told me if he had to use a flashlight to read my license, I was getting a ticket.

Unless he was sitting with you, by the time he got to you he might have to use one and you not be in violation.

 

[Gravey]

I use the weather channel app and it shows like this or you can just go with what @gasman said!

 

[backyardtndeer]

Yes. It's a very specific time. There's charts in the hunting reg book but also most weather apps have a sunrise and sunset time.

The twra app will also give times for your location.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

As I get older, this is one thing I can quit worrying about. I no longer have the eyesight to see at the ends of the legal shooting hours. I'm normally packed up and well on my way to the access by the time legal shooting hours are over.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I do have it programed on the face of my watch if needed

 

[ImThere]

I do have it programed on the face of my watch if needed
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That's nice!