1068 and 2714 kinda seem at odds with each other. We need to do like Texas. No restrictions on feral hog hunting at night. Just shoot them!
I for one hope 1142 passes.
I for one hope 1142 passes.
You want this to fail?? So you want wardens to be able to enter private property based solely on the sound of a gun shot? Or am I reading it wrong? I am most definitely against that. I don't feel that the sound of a gunshot is gives LEO justification to enter private property. That leaves too much room for abuse by an overzealous warden. It is not possible to know exactly where a shot came from. I don't want someone tromping under my stand just because they "thought they heard a shot from this direction and wanted to check and see if I am legal."
I assumed wardens could already enter private property. I was dove hunting a place the warden was staked out on out in the middle of nowhere. He walked in, checked my license and birds and talked for a second. At the time I was annoyed he did that, I was having a great hunt. He kept talking, so I just picked up my gun and started shooting at birds and working dog. He got the hint and left. What are their limits on when they can enter private property?
How does HB 1645/1654 differ from the current wanton waste regs?
I'd like to know this as well. Two years ago, I was putting orange vest on at my truck, behind locked gate, and warden pulled up to gate, climbed over, and asked for my license. I showed it to him and finished getting ready to go to my stand. (hadn't even gotten rifle out yet) I'd have rather enjoyed telling him to go elsewhere but I was wanting to get going, not challenge the State.
My take is that a GW entering a property hasn't been an issue, so why change it? I know lot's of property around with out of state owners, it won't take the rule breakers long to figure that deal out. Somebody important must have got busted last year and now they want a change lol
As far the wanton waste regs, I'm thinking that this was brought about by the waterfowl guys who like to hunt ducks and geese but don't eat them. Fed regs say you just have to make an attempt at retrieval, each man keep his limit separate and says nothing about eating them. People are probably getting tired of seeing piles of untouched waterfowl on every dead end road.
The bad part of forcing any edible game to be used is the wild hogs. They are a nuisance and while some are edible some will have meat that is will be foul tasting due to age or being a boar. If something like that passes it will require the hogs to be consumed if at all possible as well which is opposite what it is now, shoot it and leave it if you don't want it since it is a nuisance anyway. I agree that animals that are edible should be used or given to someone who will use them but some exceptions need to be added if they haven't been already.
But if they do not put specific exclusions a coyote or anything else that is shot for hunting could be considered game and you would then be breaking the law with the coyote as well as the skunk or who knows what else.
When too many things are left up to the mind of a person and the game warden wants to be an ass you could be having skunk for dinner.
When too many things are left up to the mind of a person and the game warden wants to be an ass you could be having skunk for dinner.
As long as a hog is considered a nuisance species by the state ag dept., there won't be any wanton waste laws on them. The second they cross the line into a "Game Species" designation, we will all be eating a bunch of pork.
Just another Gray law on the books for the ODW that is wide open to interpretation.
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