Todd - go back and watch both episodes of his video interview.
He said get rid of all the rules and more or less let the sportsmen police themselves. You let my neighbors alone to their own devices, you are going to have a problem. They have 4 full size freezers in their basement and they do not buy any meat in the store.
They were born and raised on public assistance and because of where they came from, everyone looked the other way when they shot more then their share in the past. Everyone was naive enough to think that everything that they shot - they ate.
The one neighbor boy - Johnny died, before he died, he fessed up and told us that they were selling deer at one time to the city slickers in places like Munderf where guys came from Pittsburgh for a couple of days of drinking and women chasing and they would pay you hundreds of dollars for a nice buck that they could take home and lie about where they shot it and how they shot it. It would buy them another year in the woods, because their wives believed that they were out hunting and not sitting in the bars all day.
We asked him how much a 8 point buck was worth, he said knives, guns, rifle scopes, bow and arrows - anything that you wanted.
At one point, they had about 8 people, 4 of them would post and 4 of them would drive. As the people put on the drive, anything they saw, they shot. They didn't stop the drive to retrieve their dead game. After the drive was over and all the deer were shot, they would walk back through the woods and retrieve what ever they shot and then wait until dark to fetch it out and then drive it up to the camps to sell it to the city hunters. They shot everything, bucks, does, fawns - anything that moved, regardless of if it was in season or not. At one time, this was called market hunting.
Let's look at Sunday hunting a different way.
You are a game warden. Your job is to catch people who are breaking the law. In Pennsylvania, you can pretty much hunt deer from the First week of October to the end of January.
Sooner or later, you are going to get tired of being in the truck 18 hours a day, 7 days a week for 4 months. After a while, your kids won't even recognize you and your wife would probably divorce you.
Everybody needs a day off.
Hunting is a privilege, not a right.
If you choose to work on a Saturday during deer season, tough.
Some people has to have priorities, one of which is are you going to hunt or are you going to go to work?
Everyone but the game warden gets a vacation.
It's up to you to choose - am I going to take this vacation in December or am I going to take it on the 4th of July and go on a family vacation.
My dad told his employer when he was hard up for a job, 50 years ago, with a small child at home, I'm not going to be here the first week of December. You can decide not to hire me right now, but I am telling you - I'm not going to be here.
My dad worked for Speer Carbon. They made battery electrodes.
Batteries was what powered most children's toys back then.
They told him, Christmas was the busiest season of the year for making batteries and if he wanted time off, he could feel free to take the whole month of January off if he wanted, but they couldn't spare him the month of December.
I can remember many times, my dad going to the camp after work - 4 PM in the afternoon and walking up the valley and shooting a doe.
Doe season for rifle was only two days and he had to put meat on the table and deer meat was the easiest to get...
Even times when my grandfather and Uncle refused to go out the door because they hunted all day and did not see a deer, dad went out and shot one. It was out of pure necessity - because dad had 6 kids at home and probably only made $5 or $6 a hour at that time.
Even back then it was pretty hard to feed, clothe and put a roof over the heads of 8 people with $200 a week.
I can see the point of both you and me. But my opinion still stands - no Sunday hunting!