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- Newsgroups: alt.snowmobiles
- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!dougr
- From: dougr@meaddata.com (Doug Ritter)
- Subject: Re: Michigan Deer Season
- References: <1992Nov17.161735.14218@meaddata.com> <1992Nov18.134536.4686@tellab5.tellabs.com>
- Sender: news@meaddata.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:28:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182809.29461@meaddata.com>
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- Lines: 66
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- In article <1992Nov18.134536.4686@tellab5.tellabs.com> don@tellabs.com (Donald Leonard) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.161735.14218@meaddata.com> dougr@meaddata.com (Doug Ritter) writes:
- >>Just talked to my Cat dealer this morning about this and that, and
- >>during the conversation I mentioned that I was hoping to go to Cadillac
- >>MI in a couple of weeks (Dec 1 or 2). He told me not to go before
- >>Dec 1 because deer season is on until then and it was illegal to ride
- >>before that.
- >>
- >>Is that true? It wasn't true in Wisconsin back when I used to ride
- >>up there - the hunters and sledders and skiers all co-existed (sometimes
- >>uneasily, I admit) in the woods.
- >>
- >>If noone here knows the answer to this, I'll call the Chamber of Commerce
- >>in Cadillac. I'll post what I find out.
- >>
- >>--
- >>Doug Ritter (dougr@meaddata.com)
- >I'm not exactly sure about dates but in WI its the same way. I know
- >the hunting season (except for bow) is over by the 10th of Dec
- >because thats the first legal riding weekend.
- >Why worry about shotguns - just get a new kevlar helmet ;-)
- >
- >don
- >--
- >
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Donald T. Leonard |Honda Sabre | "Bumpy trails?
- >don@tellabs.com | | Don't get mad get rad!"
- >..!uunet!tellab5!don |Indy 650 |
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- This is really interesting. Why exactly is there such a fear of being
- shot during deer hunting season? There can only be 3 possibilities:
-
- 1) The hunters are idiots who can't tell a brightly colored, loud, fast
- moving snowmobile from a brown, silent, stealthy deer.
-
- 2) The hunters are angry-young-men types who will blow your head off if
- you screw with their hunting prospects by riding a snowmobile through
- the woods.
-
- 3) You might get shot accidentally if you come flying through the woods
- between a hunter and his prey just as he fires.
-
- Granted, in any of the three cases, you're just as shot. But what does
- #1 say for hunters? I was once a hunter myself, so I feel like I can
- converse on the subject intelligently, and I just can't buy reason #1.
-
- #2 is really no more intellectually attractive to me. Has our society
- really degenerated that far? I know we're a collective mess, but come on!
- Are the woods really filled with cold-blooded killers? I can't buy
- *that* either!
-
- So that leaves me with #3. And what are the odds of this happening?
- Look, I've hunted. I *know* that it's not like the Daffy Duck cartoon
- where everything that moves is blasted by a hail of gunfire. It just
- doesn't fly that a law has to be passed to protect snowmobilers from
- hunters. So is it possible that it's just an issue of "fairness"? What
- I mean is, is the legislation designed to keep the snowmobilers out of
- the woods to give the hunters a better chance of getting a deer?
-
- *That* I *can* accept. Anybody know for sure what's behind this kind
- of legislation? Are other states besides MI and WI doing this?
-
- --
- Doug Ritter (dougr@meaddata.com)
-