A Couple of Bills of Interest for Sportsmen
Yesterday two bills were introduced at the state level that should be of interest to North Carolina sportsmen. The first is;
H85, to extend by one year the grandfather date for some lifetime licenses from coastal recreational fishing license requirements. Sponsor: Rep. Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston.
That would give those who bought lifetime fishing or sportsman licenses after Jan 1st 2006 and before Jan 1st 2007 lifetime costal fishing privileges. I don’t have a problem with this but I just wonder if this is the last change on this or will this get brought up again. At some point you have to say this is the cut off and it was pretty well advertised that Jan 1st 2006 was that cutoff.
The next bill one might think it was a joke if it hadn’t been brought up in the past.
S79, to extend deer seasons and abolish bag limits. Sponsor: Sen. Jerry Tillman, R-Randolph.
I guess I wonder why you have biologists on staff at Wildlife Commission if you think ending bag limits on deer is a good thing. My understanding is that this is being pushed to address concerns about deer doing damage to expensive shrubbery in the Senator’s district. We just sat through the public wildlife meetings where they presented a 5 week urban bow hunt to address the deer population in the cities and towns. Assuming this passes it still depends on the cities and towns submit the paperwork to establish the season. I have my doubts that many cities will do this and once it gets bad enough they’ll follow the route of Bald Head Island and Biltmore Forest and higher sharpshooters.
Declaring open season on deer statewide will still not get at the big problem and that is urban deer. Removing bag limits and adding more days to the season does nothing to reduce the deer in the city because it will still be against the law to hunt there. Mean while efforts to improve the deer herd by limiting most of the state to a two buck limit and encouraging more anterless deer to be harvest is thrown out the window. I hope this bill goes no where but encourages the passage of the urban bow hunt and the limitless anterless tag system for private lands.
Cool story brotha. Wish you could have got one, after all the head ache. T.
[...] As reported on here earlier a bill has been introduced to open up the season on the deer and I mean open up the season. The initial proposal would of opened the season up earlier and closed it latter and had no bag limit on deer what so ever. The outcry over this by hunters has scaled the original proposal back but it’s still ridiculous for the law makers to ignore the biologists at wildlife and take wildlife management into their own hands. The current bill that has now gone to committee would only lift the bag limit on anterless deer and extend the deer season into the month of January for an extra week for part of the state but the mountains would see their rifle season more then double. [...]
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