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he wasn’t just "assuming” that persons driving slowly down back county roads were hunting.
No Assumption “They’re hunting,” answered Bankston firmly. "I've seen them stop a car, jump out and run up on a bank. The only thing that stopped them from shooting was my car behind them.” Adoption of the two proposed ordinances would act as a deterent to road hunting, he maintained.
“It’s the responsibility of any legitimate hunter to police his sport,” Bankston continued. In too many instances, the public sees only the "visible element” —those who "drive along the road with guns and beer cans.” The proposed ordinances would help control the visible few who give all hunters a bad name, Bankston said.
Sean Kilpatrick reported that it took a serious hunting accident to get hunter control ordinances passed in Culpeper County. According to Kilpatrick, two boys on private property were riding in the back of a pick-up truck when they were shot by a hunter “blasting away into the woods” from the shoulder of the road. After ordinances similar to those proposed for Rappahannock were adopted, "roadside hunting damt\ near ceased to exist in Culpeper County,” he said.
“In Rappahannock, its currently illegal to shoot from a road, not to hunt,” explained Bankston.
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