[>:]I currently own a farm in essex county va. I purchased 125 acres so my family and friends could hunt in peace, and without the chance of being killed by a reckless hunter. After buying the property I soon found out that "gun season", meant "dog hunting", meant "road hunting for deer". They are one in the same, make no mistake about it. Every day during the 10 week long gun season, caravans of trucks line the roads, hunters standing in the road with blaze orange on, waiting to blast deer. All this does is boost the anti-hunting idiots to a new level of anti hunting frenzy. If virginia would pass a law that kept this idiots off the highway (at least 100 yds), a safe distance from innocent women and children in passenger vehicles, it probably wouldn't bother me so much. As it stands now, a dog hunter can legally stand in a public road with a loaded weapon, step one foot in a ditch and blast away!!!
Constantly I hear of my neighbors talking about the big buck who got a "ass full of buckshot", but got away. Lots of blood, but no deer. That's a sick way to hunt. I always see deer in my fields at dusk, limping, missing limbs, and barely alive. These guys could care less about posted land, who has permission, or about the game warden. In essex county there is not one damm game warden. The last 3 years I have called for a game warden to do something about the tresspassers, and all they say is were sooooo bussssy. Sorry, well try to do something about it. Not once in the five years of owning this farm have I even seen a game warden on the road in our county. Purely pathetic!!!

Next let's mention the dogs who stray around in the roadways for days, no food, no home, and no one but PETA to protect them. Why aren't these morons made to license their dogs and account for them after the season? I love to hunt rabbits with beagles, deer with anything but sticks and stones, but I be damm if I ever protect a group of people who break the law by the very nature of their "sport". We have to do something in virginia before someone gets killed, or PETA puts a video together of this sort of irresponsible road hunting.

Oh by the way, were the hell do I sign this petition? Please circulate it in the papers!! Alot of landowners and hunters will do the most to get these idiots of the main roads.