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TexasTowelie

(111,964 posts)
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 10:52 PM Sep 2016

Group: Sunday hunt could bring 2,600 jobs, $155M to West Virginia

Making hunting legal on Sundays across West Virginia could create about 2,600 jobs and spur up to $155 million in additional economic activity each year, a representative of a national sportsmen’s advocacy group told lawmakers Tuesday.

“West Virginia is not a destination hunting state, but it very well could be with fewer confusing laws for nonresidents,” said John Culclasure, Appalachian states coordinator for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. “Confusing county-by-county Sunday hunting rules discourage hunters from hunting in West Virginia. In one county it’s legal, in the next, it’s not.”

Twenty-two of 55 counties in West Virginia already allow Sunday hunting on private land. Voters in five counties — Kanawha, Monongalia, Berkeley, Mercer and Wood — will decide during the Nov. 8 election whether to remove bans on Sunday hunting.

The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation and the National Rifle Association are urging West Virginia legislators to pass a law next year that would legalize Sunday hunting statewide — preferably on private and public land.

See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-politics/20160920/group-sunday-hunt-could-bring-2600-jobs-155m-to-wv

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Group: Sunday hunt could bring 2,600 jobs, $155M to West Virginia (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
Why no hunting on Sunday? Weird. Is it religion-based? GoDawgs Sep 2016 #1
Oops, I was thinking of Stargate Atlantis TexasTowelie Sep 2016 #2
word around the Pegasus galaxy is human life-force 'tastes too much like chicken' GoDawgs Sep 2016 #3
The worst part is that it was overcooked chicken. TexasTowelie Sep 2016 #4
maybe to give the animals a break from people who love to kill? Skittles Sep 2016 #5

GoDawgs

(267 posts)
1. Why no hunting on Sunday? Weird. Is it religion-based?
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:06 PM
Sep 2016

If they are worried about over-culling the population, that can be adjusted via stamp price or quotas.

TexasTowelie

(111,964 posts)
2. Oops, I was thinking of Stargate Atlantis
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:40 PM
Sep 2016

and the Wraith who culled the human population for food. Maybe that will turn West Virginia blue again?

GoDawgs

(267 posts)
3. word around the Pegasus galaxy is human life-force 'tastes too much like chicken'
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:45 PM
Sep 2016

Hence the hopelessly red hue of W Virginia.

TexasTowelie

(111,964 posts)
4. The worst part is that it was overcooked chicken.
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:55 PM
Sep 2016

Way too dry. Perhaps if they had some Friday night libations from the Lounge it would make the meat more tender?

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