I can't believe you haven't read or heard the numbers. You have been involved in nearly every discussion involving the issue on the support side but here is part of one article
Farm Bureau to PGC: No Sunday hunting!
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Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:00 am
By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent | 5 comments
Harrisburg - It wasn't ugly, but it was tense.
That's perhaps how best to describe the back-and-forth that went on between Pennsylvania Game commissioners and a representative of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau on April 11.
Jeff Grove, local affairs representative for the bureau, testified before commissioners at their quarterly meeting in Harrisburg, most notably on farmers' desire to see deer managed on science and not politics.
But before he sat down, Commissioner Jay Delaney, of Luzerne County, had a question for him. What, he asked, is the bureau's latest stance on the idea of allowing Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania?
That did it.
Delaney, Grove and other commissioners spent the next 10 minutes like so many fencers, engaging, advancing, parrying, lunging, thrusting and - far less often - retreating.
A coalition of national and state sportsmen's groups - including the Quality Deer Management Association, United Bowhunters of Pennsylvania, Pheasants Forever and Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs - has set its sights on eliminating the last bans on Sunday hunting in the nation.
Pennsylvania is one of fewer than a dozen states with such a prohibition. The goal of the groups is to convince lawmakers to let the commission decide when - if at all - to include Sundays in hunting seasons.
Delaney said he is considering putting forward a resolution, perhaps by June, in support of that effort. The commission has always been neutral on the issue before.
Grove told him that the Farm Bureau remains opposed. Members made that clear when the subject came up at their most recent convention in the fall.
"Eighty percent of landowners do not want Sunday hunting," Grove said.
Not all of the commissioners like the idea either. Dave Schreffler, of Bedford County, said he worries it will lead farmers to post their land, as did Tom Boop, of Northumberland County.
"I'm telling you, and I'm telling this board, if the NRA and other organizations cram this down the throat of Pennsylvania landowners, there are going to be consequences," Boop said.
Others were more agreeable. Commissioner Greg Isabella, of Philadelphia, said there's room for compromise. Landowners could post their property against hunting on Sundays, he said.
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