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practice “is an accident waiting to happen.”
The ordinances that the supervisors will consider on Wednesday aren’t even hunter control laws. Individuals who shoot from the road onto posted property aren’t hunters. Supervisors H. B. Wood has called them bandits. The name fits.
If legU’mate hunters and sportsmen opposed to these ordinances will sit back and think a minute, they might see the benefits that the new laws may bring to them.
More and more land in Rappahannock County is being closed to hunters. This trend is the direct result of abuses by a few individuals with utter disregard for the law. Eliminate the bandits and the “Posted—No Hunting” signs will begin to come down off trees and fences.
Ordinances like those proposed for adoption in Rappahannock have been in effect for several years in Culpeper, Fauquier and Loudoun Counties. Game wardens there acknowledge that illegal road hunting wasn’t eliminated with passage of the new laws but it has been reduced significantly.
We're not claiming that the ordinances are the complete answer but they’re a beginning. With their adoption, our game warden will have a more effective tool to enforce the game laws of the Commonwealth in Rappahannock County.
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