Duck hunting ban

Zen900 · 01-21-2007, 05:15 PM

Columbia-AP) January 21, 2007 - South Carolina wildlife officials say legislation banning new hunting preserves will help them phase out old ones.

Hunters in the state killed more than 8,000 ducks on the preserves, where farm-raised birds are flushed into the paths of waiting guns.

At the preserves, sportsmen can legally kill as many ducks as they want for six months of the year. Duck hunting season only last for about two months, and hunters are limited to six ducks per day.

Preserve operators argue that they provide a service people want. Preserve owner Jimmy Calter says dozens of people visit his Marion County property each week.

Casey Pheiffer of the Humane Society of the United States says South Carolina's ban on new mallard preserves is one of the first she has heard of in the country.

Posted 4:21pm by Logan Smith

Zen replies:

This means as old established farm raised duck hunting preserves go out of business through normal attrition that new preserves are not allowed to open thus eliminating them all eventually.

michiganhunter · 01-22-2007, 01:53 PM

i am sick of the humane society of the united states, they are a bunch of !!!! !!!!!!!s, i hope they all rot in !!!! with hitler fricken discriminatory asses, i want to propose a hunting season on all members of the HSUS never closes and no bag limits and don't stop until they are extinct.

Midas · 01-22-2007, 02:40 PM

Its hard not to spout something vulgar about this, but c'mon, that is ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

michiganhunter · 01-23-2007, 12:49 PM

i understand people have rights and they can protest animal rights all they want, but once they start trampling on all of our rights as spotsman they went to far what are they gonna do next take away our constitutional right to bear arms? lets put it this way anyone comes to take away my guns they will be on the receiving end of it, its my right and i will not give it up reguardless of what some stupid idiots have to say about it. just like the bull crap fox went and did broadcasting a short clip sent in by HSUS that was proposing a trapping ban, and they didn't give the sportsmen a chance to retaliate with there broadcasts, they have since terminated the commercial, because of all the complaints they received from us sportsman we can't tkae the brunt of what these losers have to say, what i said before about opening a hunting season is way extreme i just said it to show how angry i was but if they ever did i wouldn't protest it.

troy2000 · 01-23-2007, 10:42 PM

I don't believe they should have the legal right to shut the preserves down. But I also don't think much of the "sport" of flushing farm-raised birds into the guns of so-called "hunters."

It reminds me of a trout farm about forty miles from here, where people can pay to go "fishing" by dropping dough balls into concrete ponds/tanks where there's almost as much fish as there is water. I go by there to buy trout sometimes when I'm in the neighborhood, and they're pretty good eating. But I certainly don't rent their rods and reels.

trapfreek · 01-24-2007, 07:34 PM

I wish we could shoot some of the ducks and geese around our local ponds and lakes. One small lake here gets so polutted they stop people from swimming.

01-21-2007, 05:15 PM	#1
Zen900 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 701	Duck hunting ban Columbia-AP) January 21, 2007 - South Carolina wildlife officials say legislation banning new hunting preserves will help them phase out old ones. Hunters in the state killed more than 8,000 ducks on the preserves, where farm-raised birds are flushed into the paths of waiting guns. At the preserves, sportsmen can legally kill as many ducks as they want for six months of the year. Duck hunting season only last for about two months, and hunters are limited to six ducks per day. Preserve operators argue that they provide a service people want. Preserve owner Jimmy Calter says dozens of people visit his Marion County property each week. Casey Pheiffer of the Humane Society of the United States says South Carolina's ban on new mallard preserves is one of the first she has heard of in the country. Posted 4:21pm by Logan Smith Zen replies: This means as old established farm raised duck hunting preserves go out of business through normal attrition that new preserves are not allowed to open thus eliminating them all eventually.

01-23-2007, 10:42 PM	#5
troy2000 Resident Armed Liberal Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Southern California Posts: 9,459 Images: 9	I don't believe they should have the legal right to shut the preserves down. But I also don't think much of the "sport" of flushing farm-raised birds into the guns of so-called "hunters." It reminds me of a trout farm about forty miles from here, where people can pay to go "fishing" by dropping dough balls into concrete ponds/tanks where there's almost as much fish as there is water. I go by there to buy trout sometimes when I'm in the neighborhood, and they're pretty good eating. But I certainly don't rent their rods and reels. __________________ If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France

01-22-2007, 01:53 PM	#2
michiganhunter Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 72	i am sick of the humane society of the united states, they are a bunch of !!!! !!!!!!!s, i hope they all rot in !!!! with hitler fricken discriminatory asses, i want to propose a hunting season on all members of the HSUS never closes and no bag limits and don't stop until they are extinct.

01-22-2007, 02:40 PM	#3
Midas Troll B' Gone Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Springdale, Arkansas Posts: 3,807 Images: 2 Blog Entries: 6	Its hard not to spout something vulgar about this, but c'mon, that is ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

01-23-2007, 12:49 PM	#4
michiganhunter Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 72	i understand people have rights and they can protest animal rights all they want, but once they start trampling on all of our rights as spotsman they went to far what are they gonna do next take away our constitutional right to bear arms? lets put it this way anyone comes to take away my guns they will be on the receiving end of it, its my right and i will not give it up reguardless of what some stupid idiots have to say about it. just like the bull crap fox went and did broadcasting a short clip sent in by HSUS that was proposing a trapping ban, and they didn't give the sportsmen a chance to retaliate with there broadcasts, they have since terminated the commercial, because of all the complaints they received from us sportsman we can't tkae the brunt of what these losers have to say, what i said before about opening a hunting season is way extreme i just said it to show how angry i was but if they ever did i wouldn't protest it.

01-24-2007, 07:34 PM	#6
trapfreek Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 491	I wish we could shoot some of the ducks and geese around our local ponds and lakes. One small lake here gets so polutted they stop people from swimming.