2012 Dove Hunter Survey

[Okie4570]

Received in the mail today. Said it was delayed from last season for whatever reason. Looks like any other survey from the Feds, lots of steel shot questions though. Some are too funny. I think the doves I shoot have a better chance of picking up grain treated with malathion at a grain elevator that picking up lead shot somewhere.

 

[makeithappen]

Be careful, if you answer a few of those in section 12 incorrectly, they throw out your survey. ha ha

 

[dennishoddy]

Steel for dove????

You've got to be kidding me. Some bleeding heart tree hugger is behind this.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Write on there "Spanish Please" translated of course.

 

[turkeyrun]

Steel is required on WMA where duck / goose are present / hunted.

Add a new column on the survey "BS" and use it for all of those questions.

Falls under the same logic as "we must do it for the children (animals/birds)". Just gubiment intervention, driving up cost, enacting dubious and complicated regulations. No need to outlaw guns, just keep driving up cost, adding paperwork, and needless regulation. People will just stop hunting / shooting.

 

[tbudspires]

Or honest people will start skirting the ridiculous laws.

 

[tntrex]

I know people that dove hunting is about the only hunting they can really afford already. Sad times ahead for the little man yet again.

 

[jakeman]

If they make us start shooting steel at doves my dove hunting days are over.

I shoot a 50's Belgium 20 at doves, and that's the only reason I go, so I can shoot that gun.

 

[dennishoddy]

The "scientific studies" that purportedly showed ducks dying of lead poisioning by injesting pellets has been suspect from the start, but nobody every really spent the money to put up counter studies.

I'm sure some junk science by the "global warming" crowd with false data will be used to push this through as well.

 

[Mitch Rapp]

If they make us start shooting steel at doves my dove hunting days are over.

I shoot a 50's Belgium 20 at doves, and that's the only reason I go, so I can shoot that gun.

Ok.... I am not "for" any additional Gov. regulation, but I have been seeing a lot of steel shot that is $5 a box like regular cheap shot.