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The reign of terror that marred past hunting seasons in Rappahannock County was not repeated this year.
We didn’t have to contend with truckloads of hoodlums cruising the county, turning their dogs loose onto posted property to drive deer onto the roads where lawbreakers waited with guns ready. We didn’t have to deal with terrorists who forced motorists into roadside ditches and threatened or assaulted protesting landowners.
Maybe the disappearance of the slob hunters is attributable to an increase in the bag limit on the other side of the mountains. The greater incidence of violations during the last two weeks of the season when hunting stopped west of the Blue Ridge seems to indicate that this might be at least part of the reason.
But we’d like to think that some of the credit goes to the hunters themselves. We believe that local sportsmen have taken the first step toward policing their own ranks here in Rappahannock. We believe that peer pressure combined with public outrage over past abuses sparked the decline of illegal road hunting here.
We hope that the trend continues and widens to combat the continuing problem with trespass violations during hunting season. And we have some suggestions aimed at assisting in the
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