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By GEORGE BOWLES
Probably no commandment in The Code of Virginia is violated with more regularity than the one which says, in effect, “Thou shalt not fire thy gun within 100 yards of a public road.”
Anyone who travels the rural highways and byways of the Commonwealth during hunting season knows that they are often lined with hunter’s pick-up trucks. Also lining them in many eastern counties are the dauntless sportsmen waiting for their dogs to chase a hapless deer out of the woods and within range of their shotguns or, in some jurisdictions, their highpowered rifles.
Sheriff Henry Kennon of Louisa County stated the problem well a few years back. During a public hearing on a county ordinance which was being vigorously opposed by hunters he observed, “Hunters are the most law-abiding people on earth - except when
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