My apologies if you thought I was calling you a republican, although you did mention the indiscretions of two democrats in a previous post without giving equal time to the very many republican politicians who also qualify. Many hunters would not feel offended being called one I can assure you, in fact they are proud to be one!

I am not making any excuses for not being given a sunup/sundown chart. I determine for myself if it is light enough and safe enough to shoot. The tables may have a big significance to you, but they don't to me and probably the majority of other hunters. All I am trying to point out here is that hardly any two hunters will have the same thinking of what should be ethical or not. To nitpick on a subject like actual legal shooting time is so irrelevant in my opinion. Now if someone kills a deer in pitch darkness, we all know that it is against the rules, but to condemn those who may have shot a deer a few minutes before or after "legal" shooting time when it was plenty light enough to see clearly and classify them the same as poachers is just not right in my opinion. I do still believe, however, that the state WOULD give out the charts if they thought this issue was so important. You can't expect hunters to be googling in hunting camp or anywhere else for that matter, and it is NOT a prerequisite to buy a local paper the day before you hunt to find out when sunup and sundown is for the area hunted. The regulation book says sunup to sundown as a rule of thumb, the rest is up to the hunter. If hunters stretch it too much, most know what the consequences could be.