Pa sundays

[kt]

i sent a short note expressing my interest in seeing sundays become legal here in PA and here is the latest reply, doesnt sound like much to me, kinda like it has been swept under the rug for another year
kt....
It would take an act of the General Assembly to legalize Sunday hunting. Currently, the Game Commission does not have any authority over this matter. Please contact your local state representative and/or senator to voice your views on this topic.

However, I will tabulate your comment along with others for the Board of Game Commissioners information.

The 2004-2005 Legislative Session officially ended on Nov. 30, 2004. However, a House Resolution was approved that directs the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to examine all aspects of Sunday hunting, which includes but is not limited to: support among the public, economic impacts, biological impacts on wildlife. If after the Legislature receives the report it decides to approve legislation allowing Sunday hunting, the Game Commission will seek to implement Sunday hunting when and where appropriate.

Please contact your local state representative and/or state senator to make you views known on this issue.

[skeeter@ccia.com]

I have brought up the topic of sunday hunting to lots of my farmer fiends to get their feel of the situation. All of them think of Sunday as a day of peace on the farm and although don't mind a few sunday crow or yote hunts around them, see their peace and quiet down on the farm with family etc etc interupted with others running around the property.....I think maybe a good start for deer would be on maybe state game lands only....and see how that goes.....also thought should be given to this situation...while talking to an amish farmer to get permission to hunt his land, in the distance a shot was heard. Then a ping on the side of his barn. Then another shot in the distance...again a ping on the barn. His family and us were standing only about 30 yds from the barn and another 30 yards from his home. When he asked us if we heard the shots hitting his barn, not far from us or his kids, we agreed this is what was going on......he ran us off not to hunt his property....which by the way we had the ok to do so just moments before....With his kids playing outside running the fields on a sunday off from work and school.....I doubt he would let hunting on sunday anyhow.....we also once got ran off a farm for even asking to hunt the next day because we bothered the land owner on a sunday....humm....It will take a lot of work for sunday deer hunting...

[Swift]

So if the farmer doesn't want anyone to hunt on Sunday he makes it very CLEAR.

[kt]

and another thing, i heard something else , well read it in the sunday paper. The game commission looked to push a hike on license prices this coming fall. House game and fish committee, said that after how grumpy the season made so many hunters, there is no way they would give the ok to hike the cost.
kt

[larryours]

Sunday is for Peace, relaxing, and rest: ok
I've found that I'm more at Peace, Relaxed and at Rest when I'm bowhunting, Back in 2001 Sunday hunting was allowed in West Virginia, and I took a nice 8-point buck with my recurve. Sunday hunting was only allowed in Grant County for one year, then it was voted out by the citizens of Grant County.
It's something that I'll always remember of the year that I was able to hunt on Sunday, however I don't think I infringed on anyones rights, nor did I create any distrubance( maybe after I arrowed this buck, if you'd been within 300 yards of my stand, you might have heard me, Ha, ha.) anyway, some people say hunting distrubes Sunday religious services, I'm sure that I didn't, I think I pray to the Good Lord more while I'm out in his Glory(the outdoors) than anywhere else. I feel I'm closer to God when I'm in his great outdoors . Does anyone else out there feel the same way as I do ?

[fabsroman]

They made deer hunting here in Maryland legal on some Sundays and I haven't really heard many complaints about it. I just wish they would do the same thing for the rest of the season and for every Sunday. I agree that some farmers might not want people to hunt on their property on Sundays, but if we were all honest people that wouldn't be a problem. If a farmer told me that I could only hunt on his property on Thursdays, I would be fine with that. I'd find some other places to hunt the rest of the week, or just work every day except for Thursday. I completely respect the farmer's viewpoint.


KT,

As far as it takign an act of the General Assembly, that is probably right. So, you should talk to your representative about it. The game commission can only make recommendations, they cannot make the law. It is an executive agency that enforces the laws that are passed.

[Skyline]

We have the Sunday no hunting law in parts of the Canadian prairie provinces. What really ticks me is being told I can't hunt on my own farm on Sunday.

If you want to see a situation that makes no sense.....here we can hunt birds on Sunday, small game is OK, hell I could hold a trap shoot on my farm and disturb all of the neighbours within 5 miles and that is OK. Somehow the odd shot from a deer hunter is more disturbing???

The Sunday no hunting laws are total BS. As with any other day of the week if a farmer doesn't want hunting on his property on Sunday he has the option to....JUST SAY NO!.

As an aside...........some of my neighbours, who profess to be very religious, are very vocal about no hunting on Sunday. Last fall I mentioned to one of them about seeing a big whitetail buck in my pasture on one Sunday during the rifle season. He asked me why the hell I didn't shoot it and I said well because it was a Sunday. His response was "I would have, who the hell would know. You coulda been shooting a coyote." This is the same guy that will stand up at a public meeting and get quite angry at the suggestion of hunting on Sunday!!??

He is not the only one. I have seen this type of hypocritical behaviour many times and in three different jurisdictions that have no hunting on Sundays for big game.

You guys in PA are not alone! Personally I get really ticked by church goers imposing their views on me as to what is an allowable activity on a Sunday. If they can go fishing after church and bash our little scaled friends on the head, why can't I shoot a deer.........especially on my own property? I bought it, I pay the taxes, who the hell are they to tell me I can't hunt there on Sunday?

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against religion.......just hypocritical behaviour and staunchly held beliefs that are not logical.

[larryours]

Skyline, I agree with you 100 %,
I feel that you can be religious without being hypocritical. Maybe what I write I will have to anwer to my maker when I stand before him one of these days, but I can pray and feel closer to, and feel his presence, when I'm in the outdoors. I'm not cutting down churches, because they are God's houses, however I get my hackles raised, when during the week, individuals can raise holly terror, and then go to church on Sunday with their suits and ties and give you their" I'm better than you are" / " holier-than-thou" syndrome, that's why I've almost quit going.
I can pray to God when I'm in the outdoors and I feel at peace with myself, because I feel the great outdoors is God's creation and closer to him. I feel better about this after reading Matthew6:-5-6 &7
These are my feelings and opinion alone, does anyone else out there feel the same way ?????

[rubicon]

AMEN Brother Larry! Im with you 100.1%

[RagingBullPa]

i know this thread is old but voices must be heard, this baloney about the farmers wanting to keep the day holy bull they spend half of the day suckin down suds the other half pestering someone at Lowes , Home Depot Or Tractor Supply, or the feed store

[kt]

whoah a throwback thread! i stopped moaning about it for a while because i had a job that got me out hunting a lot. now i am a saturday only fella again, sure makes me mad, but i spend sundays now scouting hard or shooting clays, it works out
kt

[RagingBullPa]

i work the afternoon shift 230-1030 and many times get called in for early duty so during the weeek its hard unless i can get vacation , kind of hard when others hunt who have more senority, plus we are required to work a minimum of two weekends a month overtime , moneys great but i do have a life too, plus my other sports activities i compete in masters track and field keep me hopping so it would be nice to have a sunday hunt here in pennswoods especially in the spring when its a little slower in work this way i can hunt for gobblersmore instead of getting maybe 2 days in