Bill Cochran is a Roanoke Times outdoors columnist.

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Bill Cochran's Outdoors

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• Less freedom at Hatteras for surf casters
• Here’s the scoop on hunting shed antlers
• Want more grouse? Get used to hearing chainsaws
• Sunday hunting bills aplenty, but some hunters hold out
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• Hunting for a book on rabbit hunting
• More comments on Sunday hunting
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Bill's Field Reports

• Winterize your boat? Heck no! Keep on fishing
• Senator gets attention of DGIF
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BILL: Read your post today (on the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries’ hound study). I've heard the constitutionality perspective on the right-to-retrieve law from several other sources as well.

If you don't like the way that DGIF is handling the issue, just wait until it blows up and let some chest-thumping representative in the General Assembly handle it. You've seen what happens when the General Assembly gets involved and tries to regulate hunting issues.

I personally think that DGIF is doing a pretty good job at taking an honest look at all sides. No body likes change, but I think that there are a few changes needed here.