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Busky2
01-29-2015, 08:14
The Pennsylvania State Game Commission suspended a plan for now to restrict nonhunting uses on game lands after an outcry from outdoor recreation groups.
The Board of Commissioners was set to vote Tuesday on a proposal to require hikers, horseback riders, bicyclists and snowmobilers to obtain a free permit and limit use of game lands during hunting seasons to Sundays only. The commission took the proposal off its agenda last Thursday.
As of last Friday morning, the commission received more than 1,900 public comments opposed to the idea, though nearly 1,375 were form letters generated by the Sierra Club, agency spokesman Travis Lau said.:)

WingedMonkey
01-29-2015, 09:58
As of last Friday morning, the commission received more than 1,900 public comments opposed to the idea, though nearly 1,375 were form letters generated by the Sierra Club, agency spokesman Travis Lau said.:)

There should have been another 1,000 generated by the ATC.

:)

ki0eh
01-29-2015, 10:06
They ought to let hunters use a semi-auto .22 on woodchucks around the shelters. Open carry is legal in PA. If they would legalize semi-auto .22, then you could put one of these http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_833059_-1_773655_757781_757781_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y on your backpack strap, wear a lot of orange and buy a hunting license.

The Solemates
01-29-2015, 10:31
They ought to let hunters use a semi-auto .22 on woodchucks around the shelters. Open carry is legal in PA. If they would legalize semi-auto .22, then you could put one of these http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_833059_-1_773655_757781_757781_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y on your backpack strap, wear a lot of orange and buy a hunting license.

if this insanity ever comes to fruition via law, this is one of the best solutions I've heard! but truthfully, can't you already do this anyways year round and say you are hunting possum or skunk or the like?

Busky2
01-29-2015, 13:22
ALSO

Gov. Tom Wolf is poised to sign an executive order ending a short-lived effort by former Gov. Tom Corbett to expand the extraction of natural gas from rock buried deep beneath Pennsylvania's state parks and forests.

Sarcasm the elf
01-29-2015, 14:19
They ought to let hunters use a semi-auto .22 on woodchucks around the shelters. Open carry is legal in PA. If they would legalize semi-auto .22, then you could put one of these http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product4_750001_750051_833059_-1_773655_757781_757781_ProductDisplayErrorView_Y on your backpack strap, wear a lot of orange and buy a hunting license.

Get them to popularize mice as a game species and it could turn out to be a win-win situation.

gollwoods
01-29-2015, 15:18
hunt skunk?

The Solemates
01-29-2015, 16:43
hunt skunk?

believe it or not, there is an open season
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=576240&mode=2

gollwoods
01-29-2015, 17:41
Yes. Suppose so. Ohio allows mourning dove hunting. Basically target practice

ki0eh
01-29-2015, 21:14
if this insanity ever comes to fruition via law, this is one of the best solutions I've heard! but truthfully, can't you already do this anyways year round and say you are hunting possum or skunk or the like?

Not with a semi auto though. Break action .22 pistol maybe, would one really want to get more than one shot on a skunk anyway?