Arkansas Surface Drive Ban

[hunt n duck]

Arkansas is considering a ban on Surface Drive motors. There is an official survey you can take.
https://survey.agfc.com/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=479677&lang=en

 

[Duckbuster82]

Link doesn’t work

 

[hunt n duck]

Here is a new link. This one should work.
https://survey.agfc.com/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=479677&lang=en

 

[kevbo3333]

Done and done. If they ban SD I will not give that state another dollar of my money!

 

[hunt n duck]

I will also find another state to hunt. I'm not going to buy another motor just to hunt there.

 

[JackSprat]

Done and done. If they ban SD I will not give that state another dollar of my money!

I will also find another state to hunt. I'm not going to buy another motor just to hunt there.

You think that may be their intention?

 

[krazybronco2]

You think that may be their intention?

a lot of in state hunters run surface drives as well.

the biggest complaint i have read about over the years is the noise levels.

 

[Gaducker]

Pass a loutre wma already restricts mudmotors after 2 pm.

 

[MudDucker]

Arkansas has gone crazy. There are areas of the state that their biggest source of revenue are rice and duck hunters.

 

[hunt n duck]

You think that may be their intention?

If it is then it's working. I don't mind spending my money in another state.

 

[hunt n duck]

a lot of in state hunters run surface drives as well.

the biggest complaint i have read about over the years is the noise levels.

I understand that and I agree. They could pass a noise limit instead of a ban.

 

[kevbo3333]

It's dumb to try and ban just SD motors and not air cooled. What's to say I don't buy a SWOMP 40 long tail with a unbaffled voodoo exhaust. Sounds like a politician is upset because someone with a SD kills more ducks than them. If arkie wants to lose on tax revenue then that's on them, there are plenty of states with just as good if not better hunting than arkie.

 

[krazybronco2]

there has to have been some major lobbying from these guys.

https://www.freedom-outboard.com/freedom-outboard-motors/

 

[hunt n duck]

there has to have been some major lobbying from these guys.

https://www.freedom-outboard.com/freedom-outboard-motors/

Those are surface drive also, just has a water cooled engine.

 

[Lukikus2]

Sounds like a politician is upset because someone with a SD kills more ducks than them.

The reason I quit trying to hunt WMA's 30 years ago.

 

[chase870]

Duck hunting has become big money for every 1 hunter the state runs off 2 will take their place with more money

 

[gsfowler]

Thanks for the link. But you may not like my responses.

 

[mizzippi jb]

I can understand why, to a point. Heck I run a surface drive. But you hear fools running around 15 or 20 minutes after shooting light wfo. Idiots 200 yards away blowing ice out of holes at 4600 rpm when ducks are looking for places to set. It's nothing different than the idiots who run outboards do, but it's just a lot louder when an air cooled Briggs with a voodoo is doing it.

 

[Long Cut]

Same state that banned mojos and has a 25 shell per hunter limit. Gets to the point you wonder if it’s for the animals or for other reasons....

 

[across the river]

Same state that banned mojos and has a 25 shell per hunter limit. Gets to the point you wonder if it’s for the animals or for other reasons....

What would the other reasons be?