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To the editor:
In your editorial “More Is Needed” regarding control of slob hunters, you ask “How is one warden going to adequately patrol 274 square miles, when the combined force of the sheriff s department and the state police haven’t had sufficient manpower to do the job?”
The abuse of Rappahannock's hunting season by a minority of hunters has systematically risen over the last five years, and has finally reached the point where county residents are plain fed up.
Here in Wakefield District on my road, the opening week of the season sounded like the 'Tet Offensive in Vietnam. For sheer and continuous explosive force and NOISE, it put our annual 4th of July fireworks display in the shade.
Driving down our normally deserted state road was like hitting Washington, D.C. at rush hour; I was trapped often behind two or three vehicles (the majority always non-county sticker or Maryland plates) cruising bumper to bumper at 5 mph. I’d like to report these were convoys of tourists, but many of them were packing enough ordinance to resemble armored personnel carriers.
The Board of Supervisors Problem Hunter Committee is a good first step in dealing with this mess. A strong local cased gun ordinance should follow.
This brings us back to your enforcement question. Why couldn’t Warden Bankston offer a class to all interested landowners—just prior to hunting season—dealing with major aspects of Virginia Game Commission regulations? Attendance of this training could qualify a citizen for temporary deputizing to perform certain game warden functions
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