huntin on sunday

what do yall think about huntin on sunday? it became legal to hunt on sunday in Va this year and i dont know how i feel about it

 

It used to be illegal to hunt on Sundays there??? I'm going hunting tomorrow. Why should it matter which day when most seasons are so short as it is? When most people work a 9-5 job it makes sense to give them the weekend to hunt.

 

cheese and biscuits! huntin' on Sunday? What's next? Blood transfusions for sick and dying kids?

 

I would be real PO'd if I couldn't hunt on 1 of my 2 days off a week. Go enjoy some quiet time in the woods!!!

 

You Better Believe I Am Hunting On Sunday!!!!!! Every Day I Get A Chance.

 

Come to Maui

No tags

No seasons

Take as many deer as you can take

 

that's only about the 17th best reason to go to Hawaii

 

Hahahahahha

 

Yep, blue laws (for those not familiar with certain old customs in the south). Still many that frown on it although it has been legal here in GA for a long time. So I know what the OP is asking.

I was raised in a strict Sabbath day houshold, so I personnally have mixed feelings, but the way I see it is if that is the only time I have available it is my private time and being in the woods is just as good a reflection time as sitting in church. Not that I don't attend church fairly regularly, just not every single time it is open.

 

Having grown up in a very densely populated area (NJ), being in the woods during hunting season made me nervous because of the high "yahoo" density. So I very much liked that I didn't have to worry about that on Sundays. Now that I live in a state with a lower population than the county I grew up in (and ~300x the physical size) -- hunting on Sundays doesn't bother me.

Not saying I wasn't slightly unnerved being awoken by gunfire while camping this past weekend -- just for a moment.

 

Im in Va... about time!!!

Sucked to only have one day a week to hunt. Im pretty sure it stemmed from Church folk. There's some additional Sunday bits about hunting near a church with the private land/permission stuff.

 

I was in Aiken, SC not that long ago, maybe 3 or 4 years. Sunday am I hit the WalMart needing a pair of cheap blue-jeans real quick.

Got to the cashier and she informed me they couldn't sell those until 1:00 p.m. Food items OK, but closed for most everything else in the store.

 

Church on Sunday morning and hunting Sunday afternoon! It's a win, win situation!

 

I personally don't have anything against hunting..... I'm not a hunter myself. I'm not a religious person either, so....Sunday has no meaning to me.

There are a lot of hiking trails in our game lands here in PA. My husband and I enjoy hiking these trails and mostly in the fall (avoid bugs & PI). We do our hiking on Sundays and we wear at least a blaze orange hat anyway.

So.....from a hikers point of view - it's nice to have ONE day where we an enjoy the trails without being aimed at.

Granted - there's probably somebody out there regardless of the rules, but less likely.

 

Below is a reminder for the non-hunting and trapping users of PA gamelands. I cannot wait for the day that they allow Sunday hunting of all species in PA.

FALL REMINDER: GAME LANDS ARE HUNTING GROUNDS FIRST
Some uses not related to hunting or trapping restricted during hunting seasons.


With the calendar now flipped to October, and the fall hunting seasons all to open soon, restrictions are back in place on all tracts comprising Pennsylvania’s 1.4 million-acre state game lands system.
Unlike state or county parks, or even state or national forests, the primary purpose of Pennsylvania’s state game lands is to provide habitat for wildlife, and hunting and trapping opportunities for Pennsylvanians.
While many secondary recreational uses of game lands unrelated to hunting or trapping traditionally have been permitted during summer months, such uses are tightly restricted beginning the last Saturday in September, which typically occurs just before the start of the statewide archery deer season.
The restrictions remain in place through the third Saturday in January, a date that ensures the game lands system adequately serves hunters through the close of the flintlock muzzleloader deer season.
During the restricted period, the recreational riding of horses and bicycles on game lands is permitted only on Sundays. On Mondays through Saturdays, only riding related to active hunting and trapping is permitted on game lands.
Recreational riding of horses and bicycles on game lands is permitted only on marked, designated trails. Designated trails that are approved for snowmobile use don’t open to snowmobiles until the third Sunday of January, and they close April 1.
Off-road vehicles including ATVs are not permitted anywhere or at anytime on game lands.
Hiking is permitted on game lands throughout the year, however, hikers are advised that game lands are hunting grounds where hunting activity is likely to be occurring. Additionally, during the month surrounding the deer and bear firearms seasons – a period from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15 each year – hikers, as well as all other secondary users of game lands, must wear a minimum of 250 square inches of fluorescent orange material on the head, chest and back combined, and the orange material must be visible from 360 degrees.
The requirement doesn’t apply on Sundays, when hunting for most game species isn’t permitted.
Totaling more than 1.4 million acres, Pennsylvania’s state game lands system wouldn’t exist without the state’s hunters and trappers. Tracts for game lands are purchased with hunters’ dollars, derived either from the purchase of hunting and furtaker licenses, from a federal excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition, from lands or funding donated to the agency by its many conservation partners, or from things like timber sales and energy leases on existing game lands.
With the exception of the orange requirement, restrictions on game lands use apply neither to those hiking the Appalachian Trail in areas where the trail crosses game lands, nor to users of some recreational trails, such as Rails to Trails, that are established by cooperative agreement.
Restrictions on the uses of game lands are intended to protect wildlife habitat, preserve the tracts as prime hunting and trapping locations and make game lands safer for all, said Game Commission Executive Director R. Matthew Hough.
“The beginning of October and the coming of autumn is always among the most-anticipated time of year for hundreds of thousands of hunters and trappers in Pennsylvania, many of whom use state game lands,” Hough said. “We wish them success in their ventures afield, and we wish all game lands visitors a safe and enjoyable season.”

 

Blue laws aren't just in the south, good ol MA had them too.

 

i was just seening what other people think. i went yesterday but i also went to church

 

Some of us here swore an oath to support and defend an ideal that clearly states that religion and the State should be separate. Blue laws should have been ruled unconstitutional long ago. That they have not just goes to show that religion still weaves its insidious tendrils through American society. Personally, I can't fathom why people of European descent should even think of following rules written down by a band of Bronze Age nomadic terrorists.

See if the passage below doesn't sound a lot like ISIS:

"This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. (Judges 21:10-24 NLT)

 

Backwards as fuck. I can go hunt, buy booze at any hour, go to a bar at any hour, plow a whore, gamble, buy a firearm, and go to church all on any given Sunday. Now that's freedom.