[jon.henry755]

I get so tired of the politically correct! It infiltrates everything in our lives. If we allow it! Just checking on the small game seasons in Kentucky. I noticed it allows trapping for rabbits and squirrels, which I knew. Never noticed that it said immediately upon capture, you must Harvest said rabbits and squirrels. Unless you have a live capture permit. Unless these Critters are growing out of the ground , like a stalk of corn, I'm not harvesting anything!!
I'm going to kill a mess of them and fry them up for dinner! These rabbit food eating, PETA FREAKS can go Harvest some weeds and grass and dandelions for their dinner!

The real problem we’re all facing is that most people have ceased to use plain speaking English these days. Somehow they’ve become convinced they should communicate in a similar manner to what they read in newspapers and magazines.

I don’t harvest anything that’s not in my garden and I hunt to kill! I fish to catch fish to eat and I enjoy eating all of the above!

Another words let’s stay with calling a spade, a spade. I see no reason to change anything in our language since it’s worked for hundreds of years just fine with between little and no confusion.

 

[rt2bowhunter]

25 years ago. There was a skirmish line of antis beating on pots and pans. On the best state forest hunting grounds. I was gonna sniper their car tires. But I decided it was a bad idea. I like to say. I took a nice doe... ive caved. Don't have the energy for the nonsense.

• Interference is a crime:
  West Virginia Code §20-2-2a makes it a misdemeanor to willfully obstruct or impede lawful hunting, fishing, or trapping activities.
  
  
• Penalties:
  Violators can face fines between $100 and $500, jail time of 10 to 100 days, or both. Subsequent violations within two years can result in fines up to $1,000, jail time up to a year, or both, according to West Virginia Code.
  
  
• License Revocation:
  A conviction for interfering with hunting, trapping, or fishing can lead to the revocation of the offender's West Virginia hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
  
  
• Civil Liability:
  Individuals found guilty of interference are also liable for all costs and damages incurred by the person they interfered with.
  
  
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• Lawful Activities:
  The law specifically targets interference with lawful activities. It does not apply to incidental interference caused by other lawful activities like ranching, mining, or recreation, according to Animal Legal & Historical Center.
• 
  
• In WV we say we kill stuff with a Smile .

 

[markjoa123]

• Interference is a crime:
  West Virginia Code §20-2-2a makes it a misdemeanor to willfully obstruct or impede lawful hunting, fishing, or trapping activities.
  
  
• Penalties:
  Violators can face fines between $100 and $500, jail time of 10 to 100 days, or both. Subsequent violations within two years can result in fines up to $1,000, jail time up to a year, or both, according to West Virginia Code.
  
  
• License Revocation:
  A conviction for interfering with hunting, trapping, or fishing can lead to the revocation of the offender's West Virginia hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
  
  
• Civil Liability:
  Individuals found guilty of interference are also liable for all costs and damages incurred by the person they interfered with.
  
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• Lawful Activities:
  The law specifically targets interference with lawful activities. It does not apply to incidental interference caused by other lawful activities like ranching, mining, or recreation, according to Animal Legal & Historical Center.
• 
  
• In WV we say we kill stuff with a Smile .

Ha. I love it. There are similar laws on the books here in Michigan. The antis slowed their activities after some were prosecuted. There still at it somewhat. Blowing car horns on the county rds at 6 7 am.

 

[lsowers]

"Harvest" was ... a short-sighted attempt from the hunting community to placate the unhinged tree huggers and anti's and sanitize hunting. In the long run "we" hunters were playing right into the anti's hands. The general public has no particular issue with killing animals to eat them as long as it's done as humanely as possible and the meat doesn't go to waste. The fishermen, poultry and livestock producers aren't being tarred and feathered for killing the animals that wind up on dinner plates around the nation daily, are they? The public knows those chicken McNuggets don't grow on bushes and "harvested" by Mexicans.

The problem was by using the word "harvest" hunters were linguistically grouping hunting in with farming. The anti's could run with the concept and say, "there's plenty of food to be harvested on farms without killing poor defenseless animals for sport."

Nowadays the hunting community has smartened up and is sell hunting as a service to society to control deer herds and nuisance wildlife and thereby protect delicate ecosystems from over browsing as well as control DVC's, Lyme disease, crop and landscape damage. How it's a fair chase way to fill freezers with meat. And as a way to help the needy with high quality protein that they rarely receive in government programs. Say the word "ecosystem" and the public immediately picture how you're saving the birds, bees, butterflies, small reptiles and animals.

I totally agree! What so many hunters and trappers do not get is the fact non hunters/trappers far exceed hunters/trappers. I am interested in continuing hunting and trapping. Call it what ever you want, what ever makes you happy, it only a word. What is important is keep hunting and trapping.

 

[rt2bowhunter]

Ha. I love it. There are similar laws on the books here in Michigan. The antis slowed their activities after some were prosecuted. There still at it somewhat. Blowing car horns on the county rds at 6 7 am.

There were a few good old boys running there rabbit dogs one nite on public land. These guys flew by out a gravel road the guys hollered at them to slow down we have dogs running. They spun around and come back by flying when this one guy took his chain lead strap and just as hard as he could hit that Camera crossed the hood. They slid to a stop and jumped out then jumped back in right quick when they saw 4 Men gaining ground on them.

Word has it they haven't been back acting up any more.

 

[Excalhntr63]

Ha. I love it. There are similar laws on the books here in Michigan. The antis slowed their activities after some were prosecuted. There still at it somewhat. Blowing car horns on the county rds at 6 7 am.

Kentucky has similar laws. Both for hunting and fishing. Though I've actually never been harassed doing either in Kentucky.

 

[markjoa123]

There were a few good old boys running there rabbit dogs one nite on public land. These guys flew by out a gravel road the guys hollered at them to slow down we have dogs running. They spun around and come back by flying when this one guy took his chain lead strap and just as hard as he could hit that Camera crossed the hood. They slid to a stop and jumped out then jumped back in right quick when they saw 4 Men gaining ground on them.

Word has it they haven't been back acting up any more.

Ya. Playing with fire is a bad idea. Im always armed myself. Messing with my hunting i wait and prepare for year round. Bad idea

 

[wjlizard]

Ha. I love it. There are similar laws on the books here in Michigan. The antis slowed their activities after some were prosecuted. There still at it somewhat. Blowing car horns on the county rds at 6 7 am.

Had this happen about 6 or 7 years ago. I was hunting a gas line late season. Dressed all orange and stuck out worst than a sore thumb...the woman saw me and started laying on her horn. Well she kicked a doe right to me...long story short on her 5th or so pass by. I was dragging that doe down the hill and thanked her for helping me out... the look on her face was priceless.....🤣😂🤣....I'll take all the help I can get.....

 

[MountainMower]

I get so tired of the politically correct! It infiltrates everything in our lives. If we allow it! Just checking on the small game seasons in Kentucky. I noticed it allows trapping for rabbits and squirrels, which I knew. Never noticed that it said immediately upon capture, you must Harvest said rabbits and squirrels. Unless you have a live capture permit. Unless these Critters are growing out of the ground , like a stalk of corn, I'm not harvesting anything!!
I'm going to kill a mess of them and fry them up for dinner! These rabbit food eating, PETA FREAKS can go Harvest some weeds and grass and dandelions for their dinner!

Well. To me harvest means an easy hunt. You know when you just get outta the truck and wait for deer to come along. I mean there's barely any work involved. Hunting involves work and actual killing. Getting to a tree stand in the dark, sitting quietly for hours, the. If you're lucky killing something, if you have to track it that's even more work.
My dad used to sit in his truck and shoot deer that came within range. Since he hunted with a 7Mag that was quite a distance. He had health issues and couldn't get out there anymore but I always told him he was "Harvesting" at that point.

 

[markjoa123]

Had this happen about 6 or 7 years ago. I was hunting a gas line late season. Dressed all orange and stuck out worst than a sore thumb...the woman saw me and started laying on her horn. Well she kicked a doe right to me...long story short on her 5th or so pass by. I was dragging that doe down the hill and thanked her for helping me out... the look on her face was priceless.....🤣😂🤣....I'll take all the help I can get.....

Sometimes problems solve themselves. Haha ha

 

[Iron Duke]

Kentucky has similar laws. Both for hunting and fishing. Though I've actually never been harassed doing either in Kentucky.

I was harassed ... on a liberal university's property by a retired professor. It was a sanctioned DMP smack dab in the middle of the community completed surrounded by houses. Signs were erected notifying everyone that a management hunt would be taking place with all the parameters. It was as if you leveled ½ a block of condos and left all the streets and sidewalks in place, then let it go back to weeds. They cut the grass along the sidewalks though. The university let the locals use the property, so it was packed with joggers, dog walkers, bicyclers and exercisers. There was only one decent tree to setup in, and it was at the far end of the property. There were gates on both entrances, and I had a key. It didn't take long before the Anti's in the area caught on that when they saw my truck I was killing deer. After a year or two the shenanigans began. When I wasn't there, they'd walk dogs along the hedgerow that separated me from a street of houses right through the bait. Oddly enough, right before dark. That of course made the deer go nocturnal. (They're not all as stupid as you think) I convinced the university to ban activities in my kill zone so they limited to dogs only on the sidewalks the last couple years.

Anyway, late afternoon one day and I see an old timer with a cane coming in off the internal street my truck is parked on. I hang up the crossbow to prevent any false accusations that I threatened him and give him a loud "YO!" He keeps coming, so I yo'em again and he says: "Yo yourself" and now he's next to my tree about 20 yards out. He launches into a diatribe about how I'm shooting the poor deer and it's like shooting fish in a barrel, etc., etc. I unemotionally tell him it's against state law to interfere with a legally sanction hunt. He proceeds to walk into the hedgerow banging his cane against the trees. So calmly I tell him I'll have to call Security if he doesn't leave. Continues banging trees. Now I'm hesitant to call security and start a potential chit storm that might trigger the powers that be possibly closing down the program. You know how that works in the age of woke. Finally, I call security, and I let the perpetrator hear me calling. He immediately shuffles back where he came from. Security shows up with blinking lights along with the community Wildlife Control Officer and they're ready to arrest the guy. Security didn't look like any mall cop; he looked like the real deal. Completely the opposite reaction from what I was expecting. My contact with the University was there too. They knew the professor from the cell phone pictures I took. The old goat was living in university provided housing for retired professors and would likely have lost his housing too. I told them "I don't want to make any trouble for the old guy, and I'd just as soon keep it low key. I could see the cop appreciated it. My university contact just said the professor is another guy who thinks his opinions are more valuable than everyone else's. The Wildlife Control Officer was 100% behind whatever I wanted to do.

Never saw the Professor again. I guess they put the fear of God in'em. 😂 Interestingly enough I've been approached dozens of times and always had a pleasant conversation with those people. Almost all of them had no real knowledge of what really goes on and left with a positive opinion of what I was doing. Now and then I pass people who I can sense aren't thrilled about killing the deer.

 

[Blacktail]

I have never harvested anything in my 75 years of living on earth. I have picked & dug up my share of veggies. I have killed some animals for food to eat. I have killed my share of pests that I did not want to share my bit of food with.

 

[Joel11230]

The real problem we’re all facing is that most people have ceased to use plain speaking English these days. Somehow they’ve become convinced they should communicate in a similar manner to what they read in newspapers and magazines.

I don’t harvest anything that’s not in my garden and I hunt to kill! I fish to catch fish to eat and I enjoy eating all of the above!

Another words let’s stay with calling a spade, a spade. I see no reason to change anything in our language since it’s worked for hundreds of years just fine with between little and no confusion.

That’s right so if I’m having a gay ol time it means I’m happy!! I had an uncle named Dick. My dad called him Dick.

 

[lacky]

I still have an Uncle Dick.

 

[Ode1891]

I think it was back in the 90s. Lee and Tiffany, and other very popular hunting videos and some of them introduced the term harvest . Long time ago. It was silly then and still is pretty dumb

 

[Iron Duke]

I think it was back in the 90s. Lee and Tiffany, and other very popular hunting videos and some of them introduced the term harvest . Long time ago. It was silly then and still is pretty dumb

And never ... if I recall showed the hit and reaction of the animal. Just a sanitized shot of the dead animal all cleaned up with no blood all over. Meanwhile their 10-year-old kids were playing video games filled with blood & gore and ripping people's spines out...LOL

 

[Huntersthompson]

I had a step dad named Ed....I called him Dick.

 

[markjoa123]

I had a step dad named Ed....I called him Dick.

Haha ha. I had a neighbor who watched me never cross his wire for 10 years. I asked him. Your name dick?

 

[Excalhntr63]

I had a step dad named Ed....I called him Dick.

I had a neighbor named Dick, I called him Shorty!

 

[jon.henry755]

• Interference is a crime:
  West Virginia Code §20-2-2a makes it a misdemeanor to willfully obstruct or impede lawful hunting, fishing, or trapping activities.
  
  
• Penalties:
  Violators can face fines between $100 and $500, jail time of 10 to 100 days, or both. Subsequent violations within two years can result in fines up to $1,000, jail time up to a year, or both, according to West Virginia Code.
  
  
• License Revocation:
  A conviction for interfering with hunting, trapping, or fishing can lead to the revocation of the offender's West Virginia hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
  
  
• Civil Liability:
  Individuals found guilty of interference are also liable for all costs and damages incurred by the person they interfered with.
  
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• Lawful Activities:
  The law specifically targets interference with lawful activities. It does not apply to incidental interference caused by other lawful activities like ranching, mining, or recreation, according to Animal Legal & Historical Center.
• 
  
• In WV we say we kill stuff with a Smile .

We need more no B.S. laws like this in all our states. If we had laws like these on the books we’d have a lot less interference from idiots. Thanks for sharing rt2bowhunter.