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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.