Game Commission drops plan to require hiking permit during hunting season

[Busky2]

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]

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]

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/w...layErrorView_Y on your backpack strap, wear a lot of orange and buy a hunting license.

[The Solemates]

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/w...layErrorView_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]

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]

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/w...layErrorView_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]

hunt skunk?

[The Solemates]

hunt skunk?

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

[gollwoods]

Yes. Suppose so. Ohio allows mourning dove hunting. Basically target practice

[ki0eh]

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?