kfp673 wrote:
I do plenty of riding here in PA during hunting season. A post above says give them 2 weeks but it's not even close to 2 weeks. You have archery deer, small game, Turkey, another small game, riffle, muzzle loader, another archery season, bear season etc etc. Basically the entire fall and winter is some sort of hunting season and there is even a spring season. I also dont feel bad for hunters at all. The laws here in PA are sooooo far in their favor and sooooo far against ATV's. We have to pay registration for our ATV's and get very little state provided area to ride yet there are game lands everywhere, all off limits to us. I hunted for years and my take on it is the hunters have plenty of land, I have very select land so ride on!
I agree. I've lived in AZ for about 30 years but still consider myself a Pennsylvanian.. PA. went the way of AZ and probably other States to cut up the Fall & Winter hunts into small pieces to get the maximum revenue from various permits. Our PA. regulations used to be a booklet the size of your hand x 3/8 thick. I don't know about PA. but the AZ legislators passed a fee of $35.00 a year per ATV to be collected by the Game commission for wildlife but they confiscated the money to general funds. I refuse to buy the tag. I'm all for restricting ATV's from prowling the off road hunting areas but not being able to go off road to retrieve your deer is ridicules. I would go back for deer season every year and we always took an ATV with us. It never left the back of the truck unless we had a deer to get out of the woods. We were all seniors and none would risk a heart attack because of some law...I figure your "law" if obeyed won't inconvenience any hunter unless he's a road hunter then I have no respect for them...BTW, I have some PA. venison and even some PA. elk in my freezer from family & friends in my homestead of the North Hills......... :)
