| Subject: Re: Up Date on Georgia Bills ( Baiting, Crossbows, Deer Harvest) |
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Wayne Davis
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Date Posted: 07:40:55 02/16/02 Sat
In reply to:
Glenn
's message, "Up Date on Georgia Bills ( Baiting, Crossbows, Deer Harvest)" on 07:01:08 02/16/02 Sat
This is the kind of stuff you get when you go to your politicians, instead of getting your game management to back your issues. Why should you have to pay to hunt over bait? This is just probably a tactic to try and get WRD onboard. What's the point in having a 12 deer limit? Most hunter don't shoot more than 2 to 4 anyway.
This brings up the question, why does Florida have a buck a day limit? If Florida hunters want better hunting in Florida then this is one of the things that needs to be changed IMO.
>Crossbow Bill Bogged Down; Senate Baiting Bill Moving
>Forward; Bill to for Statewide QDM and 12-Deer Limit
>Still Alive in the House of Reps.
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> Senate Baiting Bill Moves on to Full Senate in New
>Form
>On February 13, SB 369 by Sen. Tommie Williams
>(R-Lyons) was passed out of the Senate Natural
>Resources Committee, but with some changes. Going into
>the committee, SB 369 legalized hunting deer and hogs
>over all forms of bait, but in the Southern Zone only.
>The committee substitute still legalizes baiting in
>the Southern Zone only, but it now looks more like the
>House baiting bill — hunting over bait would be legal
>only when feeders that protect the grain or food from
>the weather are used, and the hunter would have to
>purchase a special permit to hunt over the feeder. The
>permit, according to the bill, could not exceed $50 in
>price. The money, according to the bill, would go back
>to WRD for use in managing Southern Zone WMAs and
>other game management efforts.
>The substitute version passed the Natural Resources
>committee and now goes to the full Senate for a vote.
>If successful, it must then go to the House side of
>the capitol for approval by committee and the full
>House.
>
>House Baiting Bill Stalled For Now
>On February 12, the House Game, Fish & Parks took up
>HB 1095 for discussion and moved it to a subcommittee
>for further study. The subcommittee is expected to
>discuss the bill on February 20, and if it is
>recommended back to the full committee, the earliest
>it would likely be heard is Tuesday, February 26. If
>passed from there, the bill would still have to go
>before the full House, a Senate committee, and the
>full Senate for votes.
>The bill would make it legal for licensed hunters to
>take deer or hogs around a mechanical feeder so long
>as the hunter had purchased a license to hunt over the
>device, such license not to exceed $25. Unlike Senate
>Bill 369, the House baiting bill is a statewide
>change, not just in the Southern Zone. The bill is
>sponsored by Rep. Austin Scott (R-Tifton).
>
>Longer Season, 10-Doe Limit, Statewide Antler Rule
>passes House.
>On February 7, HB 1158 successfully passed the full
>House with no amendments. It now goes to the Senate
>side for consideration in the Natural Resources
>committee, and then on to the full Senate.
>HB 1158 will raise the season bag limit to 10
>antlereless deer, keeping the antlered buck limit at
>two. However, the bill puts in place an antler
>restriction on bucks — at least one of the bucks must
>have four or more points on one side of its rack of an
>inch or more in length. Further, the bill will make it
>possible for deer season to begin one week earlier
>than normal for a total of 17 weeks of deer season
>instead of 16.
>
>Crossbow Bill Bogged Down in Committee
>Statewide bowhunting organizations are actively
>working against HB 1174, which legalizes crossbows for
>all hunters throughout all deer seasons, and their
>efforts may have played a part in stalling the bill
>temporarily. The bill had soared through the House
>Game, Fish & Parks committee and the full House, but
>on February 13, the bill was presented to the Senate
>Natural Resources committee. Though one senator made a
>motion to pass the bill, none of the other senators on
>the committee would second the motion, therefore no
>vote was taken. This does not mean the bill is dead —
>it can still come up for vote in the committee at its
>next meeting, but it may not progress to the full
>Senate until the committee votes on and passes the
>bill.
>Under HB 1174, crossbows would become legal weapons
>for all hunters to use to hunt big and small game.
>During deer archery season, during the
>primitive-weapons week, and throughout modern firearms
>deer season, crossbows would be a legal option for all
>hunters, not just permanently disabled hunters as
>current law allows. Bears, hogs and turkeys could also
>be taken with a crossbow under the proposed change.
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