Geesh!
A guy states an opinion about some goofy regulation. The next thing he knows out come the mean spirited comments. If you don't like it stay home, or wait a couple of weeks then you can start at ten. Or if your so dumb that you can't understand the logic don't go. Please stay away, please, please, please.
All I'm stating is my opinion and it's only my opinion. The late start time makes no sinse!! It has nothing to do with why SD has great bird numbers. The bird population and the harvest numbers come from all the planted birds the big commercial operations raise & release, plus the benifit of all the habitat dollars we hunters & tax payers helped the state, Fed's, & private farmers put in the ground over the last two or three decades.
One of my big objections to the noon start on the opener is the health of our canine friends. There has been several opening weekends in SD with very warm temperatures. Starting at noon makes you hunt into the hottest part of the day & this is hard on a lot of dogs. It was only a few years ago that over a hundred dogs died on opening day because of the heat. Maybe if they could have started in the cooler part of the day, some of those dogs wouldn't have met such a fate for just trying to please their human hunting buddies.
Now I've probably opened myself up to something like. If your dumb enough to hunt your dog when it's so hot you shoudn't be allowed to own a dog or something along those lines.
