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Dick Cross, executive director of the Virginia Game Commission, explained that under current law, hunters can stand on the road with loaded weapons and not be in violation until they actually shoot.
A Modest Step
The majority of the audience in the crowded courtroom agreed, however, that the proposed ordinance will help stop illegal road hunting.
"It’s a modest step in the direction of correcting an intolerable situation," said John Hudson.
“We’ve had about all we can take back our way,” stated E. N. Montague, who lives in Jenkins Hollow in the F. T. Valley. "We’ve had instances of bullets going through the living room,” he said, adding that he had to replace two windows in his house broken by stray bullets while a neighbor had to patch a bullet hole in his tin roof, all in an area posted against hunting.
Henry questioned why the Game Commission sets such strict hunting regulations, including a reduced season and cased gun law, on state land and doesn't give private landowners the same help.
On state and federally owned property, there are only two landowners involved, Cross replied. “If all the landowners in Rappahannock County agreed that's what they wanted, it would be done.”
Mitzi Young, speaking for herself and another Castleton landowner, Irma Hensley, voiced firm support for the ordinance to prohibit hunting within 300 feet of a road. She noted that Hensley had found four illegally killed deer on
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