I started a Facebook page last year titled, "Allow Sunday Hunting in West Virginia." If you would like to join feel free.

I think it is a good tool to try to inform the WV public that hunting on Sunday is not evil.

Thanks,

Bryan

you are beating the deadest of horses....unfortunately.

1) Sunday hunting is already legal in the state of WV. However, after the law passed most counties chose to have a county referendum on the matter...and voted to again re-instate the ban. This time on the county level.

2) Every county that has proposed a ban on Sunday and brought it to a vote, has had it pass.

3) I believe there are 7 or so counties (out of 55) that have never brought it to a vote and in these counties you can still hunt on sunday (on private land per the original state regulation)

4) the chance of having it brought up (let alone, overturned) at the county level would be about the same as hitting the moon with your muzzle-loader.

5) WV has some of the most backwards perspectives when it comes to change...another reason many here are yellow-dog democrats, that are, at heart, very conservative peolpe. Because their daddy and their daddy's daddy.....

Go fight an easier battle...like pushin' water uphill.

Nope, I will not quit. We do have the most backward people when it comes to change and Sunday Hunting. I believe discussion is needed and the facebook page is one tool to use to get people to realize that it's not all that bad. Check out the facebook page. There are 208 fans of it and most of them come from Braxton County.

1. Sunday hunting is not legal to everyone so it might as well not be legal at all.

2. The vote on Sunday Hunting was held during an off election year which general has a low voter turn out. We have a general election in two years that always produce a higher voter turn out. If those counties that voted Sunday Hunting down could get the issue back on the ballot, I would wager my right testicle that it would pass.

3. I believe you are correct. Why should it be ok for certain counties and not everyone else? Why is an activity legal M-Sat. but illegal on Sunday? Discrimination?

4. Why? It just has to be approved by the county commission

5. Negativity is the real reason everyone is backward. The welfare state that we live in creates this attitude. Don't be such a negative nancy, be a positive polly!

then your new name would be ol' single shot. I'm just a realistic ralphie. Best of luck to ya.

Jefferson County has Sunday Hunting, thankfully, so although I feel your pain, I don't share it.

I would love to work on getting Bow season to start October 1 and go to January 31, however.

(Although I am happy that WV is still holding the line on Xguns).

Copied from Chapter 20 of the WV State Code. Get a petition going and get it to your county commission.


(27) Hunting on public lands on Sunday after five o'clock antemeridian is prohibited; and
(28) Hunt, catch, take, kill, trap, injure or pursue with firearms or other implement which wildlife can be taken, on private lands on Sunday after the hour of five o'clock antemeridian: Provided, That the provisions of this subdivision do not apply in any county until the county commission of the county holds an election on the question of whether the provisions of this subdivision prohibiting hunting on Sunday shall apply within the county and the voters approve the allowance of hunting on Sunday in the county. The election is determined by a vote of the resident voters of the county in which the hunting on Sunday is proposed to be authorized. The county commission of the county in which Sunday hunting is proposed shall give notice to the public of the election by publication of the notice as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code and the publication area for the publication shall be the county in which the election is to be held. The date of the last publication of the notice shall fall on a date within the period of the fourteen consecutive days next preceding the election.
On the local option election ballot shall be printed the following:
Shall hunting on Sunday be authorized in ________ County?
[ ] Yes[ ] No
(Place a cross mark in the square opposite your choice.)
Any local option election to approve or disapprove of the proposed authorization of Sunday hunting within a county shall be in accordance with procedures adopted by the commission. The local option election may be held in conjunction with a primary or general election or at a special election. Approval shall be by a majority of the voters casting votes on the question of approval or disapproval of Sunday hunting at the election.
If a majority votes against allowing Sunday hunting, no election on the issue may be held for a period of one hundred four weeks. If a majority votes "yes", no election reconsidering the action may be held for a period of five years. A local option election may thereafter be held if a written petition of qualified voters residing within the county equal to at least five percent of the number of persons who were registered to vote in the next preceding general election is received by the county commission of the county in which Sunday hunting is authorized. The petition may be in any number of counterparts. The election shall take place at the next primary or general election scheduled more than ninety days following receipt by the county commission of the petition required by this subsection: Provided, That the issue may not be placed on the ballot until all statutory notice requirements have been met. No local law or regulation providing any penalty, disability, restriction, regulation or prohibition of Sunday hunting may be enacted and the provisions of this article preempt all regulations, rules, ordinances and laws of any county or municipality in conflict with this subdivision.