ive talked to local gamewarden about this last season and he told me. he personaly woldnt ticket someone for it. its not worth the paper work to give someone a ticket for wanting to protect themselves.

imo 90% of any archery hunters wouldnt shoot an animal with thier sidearm. almost 100% of the time that animal would be well within archery range in the first place. unless that person happened to have a 454, 460, 500 or something huge like that lol.