ALL PLEASE READ SUNDAY HUNTING (VIRGINIA)

Virginia seems to always drag it's feet when it comes to reasonable laws. I remember the time when we couldn't hunt small game, like squirrel and rabbit, with a 22 pistol, but it was perfectly legal to blow them to pieces with a 44 magnum. And, just this year we are allowed to use electronics for bobcats (thanks to Pruson and some others), something that should have been all along. It's not been long that we have been allowed to call fox with an electronic. Maybe one day we will be able to hunt Sundays, and then those of us that work during the week will have an extra day to get out of the house a little.
 
Flyrod I don't know a lot about all of red tape involed in getting this organized but I am willing to do what ever it takes until yesterday I didn't think I'd get this much response. There is a big group of people on the the Virginia deer forum working to get VA and NC both to change their laws I found them thru another one of our members heres the link http://vadeer.proboards42.com/index.cgi. I don't know how orgainized they are but maybe if we all get together we can get this done. I am tired of work six days and having to sit home on my only day off. Thanks Chris,
 
Thanks VaPredHunter, I just signed up there as well. I'm fed up with this one/none day a week hunting thing as well. If I didn't have to support the unnecessary millions on welfare, I'd hunt Monday through Friday as our politicians ask us to, but since they're counting on people like us then to support the undeserving masses /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif, we're going to need another day to unwind /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif.
 
I wouldn't want to shoot an animal while it was in church. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Don't they have Sunday School for critters? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

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I will help. Never understood it myself. I'm from the bible belt in Kentucky and we have Sunday huntin'. I even went to a private Baptist College. A lot of folks there hunted Sundays!

Every time we ask this question at Hunter Education Instructor Advanced Training, we kinda get side stepped. Alot of us instructors believe that if DGIF would take a lead role it would help us!

Yea, and what about Sunday hunting on preserves. Are we going the way of England? Where only the landed gentry can do it! I know I am reaching here a bit, but it does not make sense to allow it on preserves and not elsewhere.

Redhound80
 
i agree with all of you on this. here in michigan in most place's we can hunt on sunday's but in some county's we can't. there are ton's of dumb law's out there, just a couple that popped in to my head well writing this is the law we have about hunting at night. here we can hunt at night from october 15th till the end of febuary on state land and on privet land till the end of march. we can use light's but they have to be attached to you or your gun so no hunting from the truck. now here's where ethic's are tossed out the window, at night we can only use a rimfire or shotgun, but when using a shotgun we can not use slug's or any form of buck shot. another dumb rule is from november 15th till the 30th (witch is are firearm deer season) in the upper and from about the middle of the mit we can not hunt or shoot coyote's. the reason being is due to wolf's. i can under stand the reasoning for this in the upper since they have a wolf poppulation and adimit it. the lower is another story how ever, the dnr say that in the lower part of michigan there is no wolf what so ever, people report them and they basicly call use dumb arse's, but yet they have this rule for not hunting. the last one i know is not to do with hunting at all but is just plain funny. in the town i live in there is a law on the book's that state's that no moter vehicle's are allowed in the village street's at all only horse driven cart's and buggey's. i have never seen a horse or buggey ever in this town but i do see a ton of cop's in car's and truck's and as of last year it is still in the law book.
i know i don't realy have a dog in this fight, but i think all of us hunter's and sportsmen and woment need to get are head's out of are butt's and come together as one large group rather than this group is for this and that group is for that. this is what the anti's and are great government want's us to keep doing so it can (and will) start breaking us down so they can start banning the sport all of us love. hunting is hunting weather we hunt wednsday or sunday, weather we hunt dove's or deer, weather we hunt with a recurve or a high powered rifle it all boil's down to the same thing we are hunter's and sportsmen(women)and no matter what we all have one thing in common and that's the love of the outdoor's.
i wish all of you that are starting to stand up and go after this the best of luck getting this law changed.
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Hey guys I've been workin' my brians out tryin' to buy some time off for deer/calling season. I agree I would love to be able to hunt Sunday. For some of us with grueling work schedules it's the only day we have off. I read nmleon's post when he said he couldn't believe we couldn't hunt on Sunday's. I was bewildered when I found out that residents in other states COULD hunt on Sundays. I thought it was like a nationwide thing that there was no hunting on Sunday.
Upon further investigation about the sabbath or the Lord's day is that it was the last day of the week. I'm a non-denominational Christian. However, the seventh day adventists have it right. Sunday isn't the Sabbath technically it's the first day of the week and there's nothing holy about that. But it's another thing we've grown custom too in our society. I just thought that an interesting tidbit of info.
I also feel closest to God when I'm hunting too.Especially when I get to turn the indsides of one of his creatures to Jell-o /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif .Then, those days when you haven't seen a trace of anything but you still got to enjoy the day in His country. Know what I mean?
 
I've always said religeon is where and when you find it. If it's behind a scope watching a groundhog hole, an FX3 screaming across a field, a fresh stocked trout stream, or inside a church, you make the most of it and you get out of it what you put in. To each his own, it would just be nice if the law felt the same way and let us all have our own way. My father found church late in life, and found comfort there, there's nothing wrong with it, heck, he even quit hunting, but if I wanted to hunt on Sunday he wouldn't have stopped me, because thats what felt right to me. I wasn't trying to take away anyones right. I was just wanting to make the best of my time here and carry on a tradition that is slowly dying. Sorry to ramble, just don't feel we should be denied this simple right /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif.
 
Oh I agree 100% you can do everythin' else on Sunday as mentioned in this thread already. I'm with you guys I don't see hwy it wasn't already passed with the rest of the changes made this past year. I would love to be able to go out on Sunday's and do some callin' or climb a tree stand and bag me somethin'. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif.
 
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