I told a fellow night shooting was for coyotes only and he sent me this. I don’t know where it is on KDFWR website but it’s just another step of reverting furbearers to varmint status. I was told grey fox were an area of concern in Kentucky. How do they discern greys from reds or does KDFWR care?
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The thing that confirms they don’t care about Ky resources is the may16- June 30 on the gray fox. Number are probably at a all time low
I just read back though the regs and it don’t say nothing about grey fox it say coyote coon and possum.
Don’t know where that come from unless it’s older stuff in the statutes
I sent it to Laura asking her about it. Also asked the guy I know if it was off KDFWR website. I just recently asked Laura if they could make it more plain that it was a coyote season only and she didn’t mention this. A couple years ago at the fur sale the talk was more of making them protected instead of a varmint status like they were in the 70’s.
This guy doesn’t shoot cats at night but there are many many cats and fox being killed at night as well as, I think, some deer. I’ve heard some before daylight and after dark shooting when they’re out in the open fields.
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I just checked the website and it only lists coyotes, racoons and opossums as open for night hunting. It specifies that all other furbearers are 30 minutes before/after sunset. I suspect someone has taken a screenshot of the KDFWR website and edited it to show the gray fox thing. Especially since even the KDFWR recognizes the gray fox as a declining species.
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I’d say it was the ai thang
I think this guy honestly thinks it’s so. I’d bet it got started by some night shooter somewhere for an “ I thought it was legal, see” defense. There are liberties taken by many pushing the envelope further. Things like this weren’t considered when the commission passed it I’d bet. In their defense, I think it could be worded much much clearer in the hunting guide than it is and in fact I requested that last year. I don’t know why a simple BOLD sentence can’t be included in there specifically stating it’s illegal to take fox and bobcats at night. I wonder how much is cared what anything that might eat an egg or fawn is killed matters anymore. A few years of non enforcement makes it’s easier to just make it legal like other states.
Heard from Laura. It is in fact an AI generated thing that is false. She encouraged everyone to go only from their website for correct info.
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The bad thing about this is many people will probably see that, investigate it no further and away they go. I know what drove the whole night hunting thing but I’m starting to think that the genie is out of the bottle so to speak and this will spiral out of control. At this point there is so much money invested in it that I think that KDFWR will be reluctant to try to reel it back in just like a lot of other issues.
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