{"id":4977,"date":"2019-02-14T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T02:01:29","slug":"bill-aims-to-move-opening-day-of-w-va-buck-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/bill-aims-to-move-opening-day-of-w-va-buck-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill aims to move opening day of W.Va. buck season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. \u2014 Legislation introduced in Charleston would enable deer hunters to buy a couple of early hunting days during the rifle season for bucks.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 3059 proposes opening the rifle season, starting this fall, on the Saturday prior to the traditional opening day which is the Monday before Thanksgiving. However, to do so, hunters would have to purchase a special stamp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always felt starting deer season on Monday, instead of Saturday, hurt a lot of people who couldn\u2019t get off work,\u201d said Delegate Jeff Campbell (D) of Greenbrier County the lead sponsor of the legislation. \u201cSaturday seemed to be more sensible to allow more hunters access to opening day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2019\/02\/14\/bill-aims-to-move-opening-day-of-w-va-buck-season\/\">Bill aims to move opening day of W.Va. buck season<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4786 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2026\/03\/deer4-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. \u2014 Legislation introduced in Charleston would enable deer hunters to buy a couple of early hunting days during the rifle season for bucks. House Bill 3059 proposes opening the rifle season, starting this fall, on the Saturday prior to the traditional opening day which is the Monday before Thanksgiving. However, to do so, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206,207,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-article","category-hunting","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}