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Hunting season is over. In Rappahannock, the deer kill was almost double the previous year.
And hand in hand with the increase in game harvest has come an increase in the number of roadside “hunters” who shoot from their cars and pick-ups onto »osted property in flagrant violation of (lie law.
County Game Warden Jim Bankston reported last week that every day luring hunting season he passed 10 to 15 vehicles crusing the back roads at five or six miles per hour. It’s safe to assume that these “sportsmen” were looking for deer, primarily on land where no hunting is allowed.
What can Bankston do under laws •urrently in force in Rappahannock? Nothing—unless the hunters are dumb enough to fire their guns with the Game W arden watching. And he has to see them actually shoot. It won’t do just to catch the offenders with dead deer. Here’s an illustration of the difficulties Bankston has to contend with: Towards the end of the season, Elizabeth Scherschell of Flint Hill was approached by two individuals who asked for permission to hunt on her posted property. Mrs. Scherschell said no. The two men then told her that she’d better do something about the fellows who’d just shot and killed a deer on that same posted land. She called Bankston. He drove out and caught “sportsmen” from Stanley dragging a doe and a buck back to the
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