I remembered there being some restriction on hunting geese on the MN river by Mankato back twenty years ago when I used to hunt it, so I was checking the regs curious about it due to the property listed in the other thread by St. Peter....
...anyways
I saw the airboat restrictions for some lakes, like Onamia, and it struck me how stupid and out of date that is.
First off, I've never seen an airboat while duck hunting. There was an opener hunting down by Mankato when I couldn't even drive yet where we were on a heavily hunted public area that had a channel cut/dredged through the cattails and I vaguely remember the DNR coming out to check people using an airboat. Might be a dream....might be my memory going to shit. Regardless, that would be the one and only time of seeing an airboat if it actually happened.
So why do we have airboat restrictions on a bunch of lakes when mud motors have been popular for over a decade?
Is there any point at all to that law or is it something that no one has simply put any effort into getting off the books?
Laws always get created, rarely do they get taken off the books. It's why our hunting fishing regs when lined up on could be mistaken for an encyclopedia set on a bookshelf.
I personally think our ridiculous regs, and all the dicks in our state that love to be "Minnesota Nice" and go out of their way to let someone new to the sport get an earful for breaking some stupid and petty law that's meaningless, are real hindrances to people picking the outdoor pastimes up.
What other regs are outdated but still on the books that should get pulled?
The airboat one isn't a federal thing and takes up an entire page of regs. So something like that getting updated because it's pointless would reduce the waterfowl regs by a full page right there alone.
Anything else like that you guys can think of?