H.B. 968~Allowing Crossbows During Archery Season
This bill was recently introduced to the House:
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Representative Mark Homer Capitol Office: CAP 4S.3 Capitol Address: P.O. Box 2910 Austin, TX 78768 Capitol Phone: (512) 463-0650 Capitol Fax: (512) 463-0575 District Address: 1849 Lamar Paris, TX 75460 District Phone: (903) 784-0977 District Fax: (903) 739-8411 Click HERE to send an email. |
Another attempt at altering the archery season. WHY do they need crossbows since the draw weight minimum has been removed?
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I sent an email to him asking why
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Did you get an answer to why? Anyone wanting to use a crossbow can in the two + months of general season. Why don't they leave our bow hunting alone?
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I sent him an e-mail & gave him a call.
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We nee to start a major letter campaign to both Rep. Homer and Rep. Kumple...if you remember from last year, Kumple was the guy that introduced the crossbow bill.....I wrote a letter to Homer today and will also forward it to Kumple.....we need as many letters to these two gentlemen as soon as possible and when it gets into committee the committee members must receive the letters by the 1,000's.....
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I did not get a reply
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We may want to ask them just what part of government makes game regulations their job. If they are going to dictate game laws/regulations, then they need to fire the commission. Wouldn't you think?
Apparently, they have too much time on their hands turning a blind eye to more pressing issues. Like WHY is 190/36 still torn up in Temple/Belton? |
Someone should really put a sticky about this in the TBH campfire section, I think alot of bowhunters aren't aware of this, and I know most don't realize that if it were not for a fluke it very likely would have been sneaked by 2 years ago.
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I probably didn't present my position very well, but I emailed Senator Duncan and this is the reply his office returned. Not really an answer, but it is a response. So, hopefully, this is a good thing...
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Once this thing is assigned to a committee, we need to consider ways to get our position infront of that committee BEFORE the public hearing date(s) and try to insure that we are not the 'defensive outsiders' that we appeared to be at the public hearing in 2007.
I think Brian did a great job at the hearing and preparing material last go around (and we did dodge the bullet), I just don't think that they are really listening much at those hearings. Often, their minds are made up by the time it gets that far. One of the committee members mentioned (on the record, in a hearing) last go around that they had spent some time with "those crossbow people that came to see us"...we need to get a package to them and maybe find a way to get our foot in the door for a little early face-to-face too. |
I agree Joey. I'm going to try to go see the local rep here in Angelo. Maybe we can have a productive dialogue.
I'm a terrible spokesman though... :( |
I contacted Kevin Hisey at the Pope and Young Club yesterday and they are going to help us out...also Kevin is contacting [FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Doug Clayton and Mike Brust with [/FONT]the North American Bowhunting Coalition...we will need all of this to help on this bill.....once it hits a committee, we should be writing letters to committee members and any other Representatives that we call freinds to try to head this off....
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MIke, thanks for your help. This will be a hard battle again, and it would be nice to be able to put it away for good. Bob
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I have been trying to be proactive in this issue, I have sent a letter to Governor Rick Perry....of course his autoreply was below...
Thank you for sharing your opinion with the Office of the Governor. It will be forwarded to the appropriate staff member. I suggest placing Perry's name on your mailing list and flood his office witht he same message as you would send to Kuemple and Homer......let's keep this going and not wait to start sending out letters..... |
AGAIN????
They haven't figured out yet that this just isn't going to happen to our bow season. |
Curtis, if we sit on our thumbs and do nothing it will. They've done taken it to Congress...
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You would like to think that this cannot or will not happen, but every legilative session Kuemple has tried to enact a bill into law to allow crossbows into the special archery season. So far we have been able to beat this bill but it has gotten harder each time......Kuemple is on a learning curve and he is learning from his past mistakes, we must make every effort to combat this. So far it has proven we will not change his mind on crossbows, so we must now take the battle to members of the committee that it is assigned to. This particular year could be tougher as it looks like the committee the bill will go to is the committee he, (Kuemple) or Homer heads.....That is why I sent a letter to Governor Perry as he will have the final signature to enact the law....we must make every effort to reach the right folks to once again defeat this HB 968.......For
every letter that a representative receieves, it is taken as 5 votes to them...so if we can get 1000 letters to Homer or the committee memebers that is equal to 5,000 votes that they feel they could receive for re-election.....many of these represtativedo not receive 5000 votes in their elections so that is what gets their attention.....Remember, the number one priority of an elected official, is to be re-elected.....! |
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