Scott,
Thanks for your quick response. I appreciate your time to answer my questions.
This is not a new question from a new to Va hunter, but a question posed by a hunt club with many many years of experience.
The details of needing to remove the minerals/salt from the ground are not detailed at all in the hunting regulations.
Nor is the requirement to remove the left over bait (if there was any) prior to the hunting season. All the regs say is not to do it after 1 Sept.
With all the reports that I have read from this years infractions, perhaps the VDGIF could better outline this regulation in next years pamphlet.
Also if a hunter felt that they did not want to remove the soil/minerals from the area, what is/would be the minimum distance that the hunter would need to be from the area in order to hunt?
And yes, I do agree that cover scents should be used for cover scents and attractants should not. And personally I do not use attractants in that manner.
But if you go to each of the web sites for these type of products, they do state to abide by state laws but they also say they can be used as cover scents as well. And VDGIF regulations do not prohibit these types of products from being used in this manner, so a hunter might think since there isn't a reg against it, it must mean that they can..
I do appreciate your incite, and as a law abiding hunter/outdoors enthusiast I abide to the regulations as written.
Please take this as a submission for a upcoming VDGIF meeting that these concerns need to be more detailed and outlined in the Hunting Regulations Pamphlet.
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Alex