The NCWRC has released the new regulations book for the coming year on line version is available and hard copies should be showing up at the license agents soon. This had looked to be a monumental year in the hunting arena with what seemed like the approval of the use of crossbows, archery hunting on Sunday, as well as the addition of a second week of muzzle loader but all of that got delayed on some technicalities.
In an earlier post I wrongly agreed with a fellow outdoor writer Mike Zlotnick of the N&O when he placed the blame for these changes not taking place squarely on the shoulders of the NC Bow Hunters Association. While that is partially true because they spearheaded a letter writing campaign that blocked some of these proposals and educated other special interest groups on how to the same the NCWRC shares a lot of the blame as well. Clerical errors, ineptness, sloppiness or a combination of all of them on the NCWRC part lead to them not having a method of getting many if not all these rules in as temporary to block the shenanigans of a few special interest groups.
The big question is will NCWRC get their act together or will this be an annual occurrence making it a two year process to get any meaningful changes to game laws in North Carolina?
