Got an e-mail last night, VA governor signed Sunday Hunting Bill

[HOOfan_1]

So Sunday hunting on private lands should be a go next year. I don't own any land...and don't hunt on private land much. Will have to see if the land owners I know will allow it.

Hopefully next year the Wildlife Management Areas...which the fees of the hunters and fishers pay for, will be open for Sunday Hunting. Can't use the excuse that "other people want to enjoy the woods without fear of getting shot", when those lands are paid for by the hunters, and those lands were SPECIFICALLY set up for the hunters and fishers.

 

[Sav .250]

Is that state wide or do the counties get to say ,yes or no ?

Using W Va as an example.

 

[HOOfan_1]

Is that state wide or do the counties get to say ,yes or no ?

Using W Va as an example.

I believe as it is now, it is state wide. I know that some of the opponents went to the Powhatan Board of Supervisors and is trying to get them to petition the General Assembly to make it a local option. The earliest that could happen though is next year.

They also are petitioning the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Considering the DGIF has been advocating Sunday Hunting for years now, I don't think the anti-Sunday Hunting groups have much chance of getting help from the DGIF.

I am hoping now that there is a foot in the door, that the General Assembly will go forward with it, instead of backward.

The entire point about "private lands" is that the owners should have a right to decide what happens on their lands. If they want to hunt or let others hunt, they ought to have that right. If they don't want hunting on their lands, on Sunday or any other day, they have the say. Not sure why anyone thinks that decision should be left up to the local governments.

 

[Fremmer]

The entire point of no-hunting on Sundays is control.
Not safety, or fairness, or anything else. Control.

Land of the free...

 

[Glockula]

The no hunting on Sunday here in Virginia might be about control but the real root cause is our geographic location in the bible belt. This is great news and I hope it allows us go hunt on Sundays.

 

[HOOfan_1]

The entire point of no-hunting on Sundays is control.
Not safety, or fairness, or anything else. Control.

Land of the free...

Yet just like the anti-gun people. There are all sorts of excuses made about what it shouldn't be allowed. Too bad it is supposed hunters who are the ones who oppose it the strongest.

 

[IdahoLT1]

You can't hunt on Sundays!? Sweet baby Jesus that is lame. You should move out West where there's less government control and States 70% public land.


http://www.summitpost.org/public-and-private-land-percentages-by-us-states/186111

I feel bad for my fellow hunters East of the Rockies.