Comments on: In California, game department caves to animal rights activists

By: The Amatuer

The Amatuer — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:27:44 +0000

With the price of ammo skyrocketing the state of Virginia don’t have to raise the price of a fishing or hunting license again. So why is the Sunday hunting ban still in place?

$$$$$$$

By: Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:19:56 +0000

R Sprinkle — I don’t want this blog to turn into that, either, even though it might help my traffic. I don’t think it will get to that. Unlike some other general interest blogs that attract a really diverse readership, this one is pretty specific. Most of us are on the same page on most things. We love the outdoors, specifically hunting and fishing. We can still have great debates among those of us who think alike on many issues, but not all issues. You’ve been a key cog in some of those! Thanks! We’ve all learned something from along the way. (I hope we have, at least!) We’ve had some interlopers, too. We have a little fun shooting down their logic on certain things. (At least I have!)

By the way, over on the Roundtable blog (http://blogs.roanoke.com/roundtable/2013/01/logic-and-continuing-the-sunday-hunting-ban/)our “vegetarian” and “animal-loving” friend Sandi is sticking up for hunters and calling the Sunday hunting ban “grossly unfair.” Thanks, Sandi!

By: R Sprinkle

R Sprinkle — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:59:57 +0000

MT, it’s your blog to run as you see fit and I have no problem with that. However, I personally do not want to see this blog turn into a “us against them” debate platform where every point has someone just waiting to contest it and if Sandi, by her own words, just jumps from blog to blog to find something to disagree with then she does not have a set agenda like most of the people do on here, which is hunting not debating.There have been plenty of heated debates on here and I have been in some of them myself as you know. I don’t mind hunters debating their own issues but when people with no vested interest in the subject except to argue go from blog to blog I think it just detracts from the enjoyment of visiting with a group of one’s peers. Sandi was defending the HSUS in her first post and if that is not inflamatory on a hunting blog then I don’t know what would be. I think Sandi is more out for debating for her personal enjoyment and ego than for contributing to the enjoyment of hunting, fishing, and the outdoors like the vast majority of the followers of this blog. If this blog goes away they could care less, they will just find another one to argue on. “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.LOL”

By: Cal in Snake Creek

Cal in Snake Creek — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:57:20 +0000

Perhaps Miz Fearing should watch footage of several adult wolves/coyotes tearing a fawn apart, literally limb from limb, and then decide if the predators need thinning out, or at the very least some serious counseling.

By: Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:47:52 +0000

You didn’t actually read the column, did you, garc?

By: garc

garc — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:22:10 +0000

Yes, isn’t that pitiful? Daring to think that any species on earth matters at all? After all, only humans count, right? Since we’ve done such a good job of taking care of the earth and all.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:37:56 +0000

Thanks Mark Taylor, I have no intention of becoming a regular. I hop around blogs and when something jumps out at me, I notice and when I see a question asked of me, I answer it.

By: Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:30:59 +0000

And, Sandi, I’ve said it before: You are welcome here. It’s good to have people out there forcing us to justify our positions.

By: Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:29:13 +0000

Karen — Tom’s column noted that coyotes have actually become so numerous that they are threatening the balance. That said, there is plenty of evidence that suggests that hunting coyotes doesn’t have any significant long-term impact the overall coyote population, and also evidence that bounties don’t have any long-term impact on overall coyote populations.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:02:22 +0000

I am big into pointing out the hypocrisy thing R Sprinkle and yeah, that is a “pain in the A$$”. It should be. I did not realize a blog should be limited to those who agree with their host and fellow bloggers, could you spread that idea around? I would sure be grateful if others followed your rule. I would also then be glad too.