I live in NH now, have lived in Mass and hunt in all 3 states each year. Not allowing Sunday hunting is just plain bad, and here's why.

One of my very good friends owns exactly 342 acres of Maine land, and lives just north of portland on 40 more. Now he owns that land, pays taxes on it, and spends a lot of effort making it better for wildlife ... but according to the politicians, and some ancient law passed when you stoned people you thought were a witch, a person can't hunt on Sundays. "Most" hunters get 2 days a week to do what it is everyone here loves to do .. but not in Maine. Nope, you have to go all the way to NH, or even VT to hunt on Sundays. Even if you live and own property in Maine .. you have to leave the state on 1 of your only 2 days off if you want to hunt. That's garbage. It's as anti-hunting as any legislation EVER written. So Sundays is left for what??? Hikers? Bird watchers??? Giving everyone a "break from the hunters"??? If that is the way people feel, that is saying that hunters are bad, and that Maine needs to control their actions .. because hunters and landowners and farmers and other outdoor loving people can't co-exist in the woods together each fall. It's crap.... if you want a break .. schedule your hunter change-over any day you want. As a hunter how can you think so low of yourself that you would allow some Puritan dead 200+ years dictate to you that the Maine woods are better off driving hunters out of them each Sunday???

I personally feel that hunters have as much right as any other person to do what it is we love to do in the woods and fields. Managing our wildlife based on some religious notion of a "day off" and not sound biological data is insane to me. Even if it meant that every farmer in the state posted their lands, how could you allow someone to take away your right to hunt. Because that's the way it always has been in your lifetime??? It wasn't that long ago they said the same about shooting does... So I guess bear hunting over bait should be banned because some people don't like it? What happens when there are enough people to vote an end to any and all hunting because they have a majority? Will that make it right? Exactly, it won't ... just like because some farmers say they will post their land and some religous people think Sundays are sacred shouldn't make Sunday hunting illegal.

There is no sound reason to stop hunting on Sundays. Most states allow it because there is no biological benefit to doing it, and it allows greater participation in the sport.