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Tis the Season… To Review Sunday Hunting Bans

Dec 11, 2006 @ 10:56 pm by Moose

Black Bear Blog has the story today about how Pennsylvanians are not interested in over turning the ban on Sunday Hunting. Of course I have had a number of posts in regards to what has happened recently in North Carolina on this topic. I was interested to see that South Carolina hunters also have a Sunday Debate going on because in the palmetto state you can only hunt private lands on Sunday.

Mike Willis, a spokesperson for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, said there has been little discussion about or movement toward lifting the Sunday hunting restrictions. The department oversees hunting regulations.

Willis said SCDNR supports the current law in that it works well for the consumptive users (hunters/fishers) and nonconsumptive users (hikers, bird watchers, natural photographers.) Willis said hunters have access to the land on Saturdays and hikers and birdwatchers on Sunday.

“They (hikers, birdwatchers) do not have to compete with those with hunting interests,” Willis said. “It is a pretty good arrangement that currently stands. ”There is no desire to see it change at this time.“

Time & Democrat

I suspect the debate will continue in North Carolina as well with our neighbors to the North and the South.