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And what about the fanner who needs his loaded rifle to shoot a ground hog or a stray dog that’s running his cattle? Will this new law work a hardship on him? Only if he’s hunting ground hogs from his car and there aren’t many bagged that way. Besides, shooting from the road is already illegal. He’d have to get out of his truck and climb over the fence into his pasture before he could fire at the dog—all a safety risk with a loaded rifle.
Col. Luke suggested that those concerned about the illegal road hunting put pressure on the state game commission to change the six week deer season east of the Blue Ridge so that it coincides with the two week season on the other side of the mountains.
We agree that the longer season in Rappahannock adds to the hunting pressures here, including the pressures from slob road hunters. But our longer season isn’t set arbitrarily. It’s decided upon after exacting studies of the animal population by game commission biologists and takes into account the number of hunters in the area, previous number of kills, available food supply and other factors. If our season was shortened, we’d have to see the doe days extended and a lot of currently posted land opened to hunters or else we’d soon be overrun by deer.
Finally, there’s the contention that the slob hunters aren’t from Rappahannock, that they descend upon the county from less law-abiding areas, particularly from Stanley. People who cite this point argue that we shouldn’t pass a law that will intarfara with lnanl
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