SUNDAY HUNTING APPROVED IN WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES

West Virginia voters last week approved ballot measures to allow hunting on private property on Sundays in Braxton, Calhoun, Nicholas, Webster and Wirt counties. The ballot measure was turned down only by voters in Lewis and Gilmer counties, the latter by an unofficial total of a mere 30 votes. Tuesday was the first time that Sunday hunting has been put before voters in more than a decade.

Meanwhile, as the result of newly enacted laws in Maryland, state game managers are now authorized to allow Sunday deer hunting for the first time on designated public land in Frederick, Washington, Allegany and Garrett counties. Sunday deer hunting on private land was already allowed in those counties.—courtesy National Shooting Sports Foundation