Re: Sunday Hunting letters/email
aquilla2@Juno.com
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 22:33:10 -0800
Did you ever think that maybe, some one mistook you for a revenueer
sniffing around someones moonshine still?
Or maybe you got too close to somebody's maryjuanna patch. Some thing
you might consider before creeping around private or public land is the
now common practice of some to grow an illegal cash crop on these lands,
completter with booby traps and fire arms. You seem too quick to asume
that it was hunters (especially on a Sunday?) who shot at you. And we
all know what happens when we assume something! Maybe the Archdiocese
was using moonshine instead of bingo, as a fund raiser:-)
Michael Sankovich
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:43:55 -0500 "Thomas Stock" <TSTOCK@FMSHRC.GOV>
writes:
>Gail Mackiernan wrote:
>
>>>>[snip] None of our local TU chapter dares to go fishing in certain
>state parks during deer season; at least one member was fired on (by
>a rifle, in a shotgun-only zone!) while walking from the parking lot
>to
>the stream. Luckily he was unhurt; the "hunter" ran off when the
>fisherman yelled. >>>
>
>I oppose Sunday hunting on public lands (and would ban it on
>Saturdays, too) because of an experience like this I once had.
>It was when I first started birding back in 1969. I was walking
>along Aquia Creek in Stafford County, Virginia (very wild back then),
>or should I say skulking as birders in woods are wont to do. I had
>crept up to a big log and was watching a Red-bellied Woodpecker
>when suddenly the air around me was filled with buckshot and
>the roar of a gun going off. The shot must have gone just over my
>head - it made a noise like popping corn as it hit the foliage around
>me. I yelled - and heard the hunter racing off through the woods!
>
>Now, the twist to my story was that this happened on PRIVATE land
>that was posted (it belonged to the Archdiocese of Richmond - and
>may still). Which leads me to two observations: 1) Even stringent
>restrictions may fail to dampen the ardour of some hunters (or
>poachers, as I prefer to call those of the ilk that shot at me), so
>ever since, I often tread as if in bear country during hunting season.
>2) Does the Sunday hunting ban extend to private lands? I'd be
>curious to know - and frankly surprised if it did. If not, then
>what's
>all the fuss? If hunters want to hunt on Sundays, let them do it on
>their own bloody land! Sure, folks may have to pay fees to hunt
>clubs and such. But better that than hunters monopolizing public
>lands.
>
>Tom Stock
>Silver Spring
>
>
>Silver Spring, MD
>
>
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