the law was just signed. Let's see what the DEEP does with it. I would be in favor or opening sunday state wide and just lower the tag numbers for the zones with lower deer dencities. That is one of the things the CAC should suggest at their meetings.
You are 100% right. if you get two tags, it makes no difference what day you fill them.
I will respectfully disagree with you. There is no logic. That part of the law is there to appease some of the antis in the legislature to secure passage.
Since when is the legislature in the business of logic and common sence?
With slight editing picked up from http://www.cdstudies.com/counselor_training/distance_learning/connecticut.html
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See: Sunday Hunting Is Now The Law!
http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/wildlife/pdf_files/game/deersum2013.pdf
They range between 25% and 38% of a bowhunter getting a single deer. Obviously tagging out is a much smaller percentage and presumably even smaller in Zones with lower deer densities.
Again I would note I still think it should be statewide but it is hard to argue that the total take won't increase somewhat when more weekend hunting days are added. One can disagree with the policy, as I do, but I don't think it's fair to say there is no logic. I suppose if I was in Zone 2 or 3 it might impact the perspective, but it really can't change the math.
How to the other 42 states with unrestricted Sunday Hunting manage their game?
The Sunday Hunting restriction was never about game management, its a religious based blue law.
To now make the removal of the blue law conditioned on game management is revisionist history.
The only logical impact its going to have is to forever prevent any further expansion of Sunday Hunting in CT. It is a victory of sorts, but it is the only victory we are ever going to get.
To reclarify, my personal preference would be all seasons all weapons all game public or private land. I also want peace in the Middle East and an end to worldwide poverty, but I am thankful for any move in a positive direction even if it does not in one fell swoop make everything perfect.
The rationale of game management as the basis for the huge victory we all just won is not revisionist history, it is current events. Without that argument we probably don't get this bill passed into law. I guess I am just a glass half full kind of guy.
It would be one thing if the Sunday Hunting prohibition was on the books to begin with as a game management tool, but we all know that was never the case or the intent of the prohibition. Game management wasn't on anyone's radar when the prohibition went into effect. Eliminating the Sunday Hunting prohibition to decrease the deer population is a nothing more than a political fabrication.
Hunters and even to a certain extent the anti's created the management argument with regard to Sunday hunting out of thin air for purely political reasons to argue opposite sides of the same coin.
End of the day hunters won the wrong argument.
That will be to our long term detriment despite a short term gain.
I am glass fully empty guy on this one, have been from the beginning. The only thing that makes me happy the antis lost the argument. I like it pretty much any time they lose. Also I am happy for everyone who fought long and hard on this. You deserved a victory.
Anyone who believes that a broader Sunday Hunting Bill (than the one that passed this year) would have made it through simply has not been paying attention, and obviously hasn't been involved in the issue for very long. Quite a few Sunday Hunting Bills were introduced this year, just like in the past. Unfortunately the appetite for a broader bill just isn't (wasn't) there. This watered down, compromise, piece of garbage we pushed through is better than nothing ... but just barely.
You can take it as a small victory or not, nobody will force anyone to hunt on Sundays. But make no mistake, we're not done.
Next year we'll start with trying to add Wildlife Management Areas to the list of places to hunt on Sundays. After all, they were purchased with dollars from Sportsmen. I'll be satisfied when I have the same opportunities to hunt on Sundays that I do on Saturdays.
There is no indication to that in the what was past into law...
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2015/ACT/pa/pdf/2015PA-00204-R00HB-06034-PA.pdf
Best time to hunt October 4th is between 5am to 8am going by the solunar information. Sunrise is at 6:52am with dawn at 5:53am. The moon is in Wanning Gibbous phase, last quarter moon. The second best hunting time is between 5:00pm to 8:00pm with sunset at 6:30pm and dusk at 7:30pm.
Second full moon after September 23st, fall equinox, is on October 27, beginning of the 2015 rut perhaps.
I'll be in a blind if my feet are still bad.
