Originally Posted by
richwrench
I have nothing against dog hunters at all, but I would fight this bill anyway because they will just add more & more tags to buy every year. Here in FL, even after you buy a hunting license, if you want to shoot a deer, you need to buy a deer stamp. You want to shoot a turkey, you need a turkey stamp. You want a gator, you need a gator permit. Then you need a freshwater fishing license & another one for saltwater. But if you want to catch a snook, you need a snook stamp, for tarpon a tarpon stamp, for lobster a lobster stamp. I buy a sportsman license that covers most (but not all) of these stamps & it costs over $100.00. Even our FWC officers can't keep up with all the different licenses & permits down here. A guy threatened to give me a ticket last year for no deer stamp, even though the sportsman license covers that. Fight this bear license as hard as you can, because once that door opens there's no going back.
The sad thing about our situation is we have a "hunting organization" called the VAHDA(VA Hunting Dog Alliance) whose administration(at the very least) is in support of creating the additional bear license. This organization is also strongly opposed to allowing other Virginia hunters the right to hunt on Sunday if they wish. Now I'm sure all members of the VAHDA do not share the same views but the organization itself does.