I keep hearing that eliminating top sewn wheat was the best thing to do and that by reducing hunting mortality we have slowed the declind - I say we have no more proof that those 2 things has anymore to do with the current status of the dove pop as there is proof that the move to clean cotton fields and pine trees has anything to do with it.
Personally I sick and tired of certain people using "common sense" when it's good for thier arguement, but then they basically tell others that they need to have documentation to back up their ideas.
The botton line is that we have Clemson saying we can't top sew wheat before Oct 1 when actually it's earlier than that in some areas of the state, some saying top sewn wheat was the evil of evils for the dove pop, legal baiting that is ok since the law is written to allow it, a dove pop that is still declining and we do not why it has slowed, but still declining, ideas using the same common sense that was used with the wheat issue, but in some minds won't help - so no reason why our ag practices are so different that neighboring states and almost a gaurantee that no further restrictions will be placed on dove hunting even so though we say we are all for protecting the resource.
Now a question for Trad - say I decided to top sew some wheat the middle of Sept, got some doves using the field and then hunted it on Oct.1 - am I in trouble? Or say I have a few doves using a field and waited until Oct.1 to top sew some wheat and then hunted it the last weekend of the season - am I ok with the law?
Reason I'm asking is that I had a conversation with some GW's a couple of yrs back about top sewn wheat - I told them you could top sew it on Oct.1 and hunt it - they said no, that you could not hunt over top sewn wheat at all - is this true?
Thanks.
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