Jodi, I have to respectfully disagree with you about drinking and hunting.
I have known very few hunters in Montana who drink before or during hunting. After, sure, but with the hunters I know, if you cracked a beer before or during the hunt, you’d get a quick ride back home. The rule has always been, ALL guns get unloaded and put away before anyone has a drink.
That is indeed the responsible way to hunt.
That doesn’t change the fact that the hunters who live in the other end of the trailer park where I was raised, go hunting irresponsible and drink before and during the activity.
The people who live on the other end of the trailer park where I was raised would, if they had southern accents and a few more dogs, be the exact example upon which the popular redneck stereotype is based. The fact that the way they actually are happens to be a popular stereotype does NOT make the way the act no longer factual.
Are there laws against Drunk Hunting, the same way there are laws against Drunk Driving?
“It is unlawful to hunt deer while under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances” taken straight from the pennsylvania game commission. I seriously doubt any state actually allows it.
tracer: It is illegal in the state of Ohio for deer to drive while they are drinking.
No word on whether they may use firearms.
Hey, if bears can use firearms, deer should be able to, too.
So if Pennsylvanian deer get into the pot patch, they’re safe? No wonder they’re always bolting across I-81!!!
Here in Akron (AKA known as Cleveland’s Little Bitch), we’ve come up with a novel method to control the herd this year. We’re gonna start charging them a fee to graze in our town…
::d&r::
Um, where is being homosexual and/or having AIDS illegal?
FWIW, every single hunter I know of actually drinks less than the average non-hunter I know. This may be slightly skewed by the fact that I’m at college so the “average non-hunter” here drinks a whole hell of a lot. 
I think the sharpshooting idea is a good one. Of course, steps should be taken to make sure the sharpshooters know what the heck they’re doing before they’re allowed to shoot anything.
Which should of course have read “Being homosexual and having AIDS is socially acceptable and legal.”
My bad.
I’ve alwasy wondered why it was called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
How do these things go together?
I know of people getting arrested in Wisconsin for drunken hunting. so they do enforce the laws. There have been many times when the game wardens are seen checking up on hunters.