You guys have the right idea, if you want change hit em in the pocket book and show them the financial break down!

Rob is right, I have heard the arguement about landowners not approving of Sunday hunting....and thats a bunch of garbage. As Rob stated, they own the land, they regulate it, however if they don't allow Sunday hunting so be it. Its amazing how many states in the Midwest have Sunday hunting and many of those lands are farm land....

There are more reasons to post your land than Sunday Hunting......liability being one of them.

I would think this will be an ease in type of regulation and it does make sense for them to start with Turkey Season. However it is hard to ignore a financial impact to the Commonwealth of $629 million...the small part of non-residents that would buy a turkey tag is a small percentage of that number.

Rob,

Is there any info pertaining to the number of hunters in the feildon a day by day basis? Seriously, if the farmers want to use the "deer need a day off" agruement, why not pick a day (like Monday) when few hunters are hunting? Let's face it, the weekends are when peoplecan and do hunt! The inability to hunt on Sundays makes absolutely no sense to me!

Jeff (GMMAT), what is the reasoning behind noSunday hunting in N. Carolina?

I agree, the day of rest is a joke...heck farmers work 7 days a week !! They don't even practice what they preach on that arguement. I have also heard that some of said that is the day they want to enjoy their land. Personally I have never heard one farmer say either of the two. Either you can hunt or not...no restrictions from my experience

I’ll keep this brief as it’s a topic that I get fired up over easily.

I CANNOT under ANY circumstance or condition buy into ANY argument that wishes to keep the Sunday hunting ban.

The MOST disheartening notion of this whole “controversy” is that there are HUNTERS in this state that wish to keep the Sunday hunting ban.

Exactly.

I agree. For a state with so much hunting heritage, it surprises me we still don't allow Sunday hunting. I'm ALL for it.

I am all for Sunday hunting in PA, so please don't take this as an argument against the original post, but how will Sunday hunting create 5,300 jobs and increase revenue as much as stated? How are those estimates projected? I just don't see how adding a single day of hunting throughout the seasons would have that much of a financial and job related impact.

With that said I would love for them to open Sundays. I'm a 9-5er with a family so my time in the woods is precious and limited.

This is just my guess as to the jobs/revenue calculation. They take the number of current huntable days and the revenue generated from that. (probably from surveying little stores, restaurants, & places to buy gear) This gives a revenue per day. Now add 17 more Sundays (7 archery, 2 rifle, 3 late season, 5 spring gobbler) And there’s your added revenue. As for the added jobs…not sure. Maybe they survey how many service industry jobs it takes to care for the number of hunters for that number of days, and then extrapolate that out too. I can’t see it PHYSICALLY adding jobs, but it would certainly make those places dependant on hunter traffic do much better.

If it starts with Spring Gob thats alright with me. Why not Sunday hunting? Its never easy in PA[:@]To many Harrisburg Hacks in the mix and in the pockets of the PGC[:@]

Hatchet Jack