You might hear increased gunshot noises in the Central Valley: here's why

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Some officials crossed the Central Valley person warned residents that they mightiness perceive an summation successful gunshots, particularly successful the agrarian areas of the counties.

This is due to the fact that of the dove season. In California, Dove hunting play begins connected Sept. 1 and goes done Sept. 15, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The Sanger Police Department said connected Monday gunshots mightiness statesman successful the aboriginal greeting and tin beryllium heard conscionable extracurricular of the metropolis limits. They guarantee residents they are alert of it and are keeping an oculus connected things but counsel the assemblage to interaction them if they announcement thing antithetic oregon person immoderate concerns.

Gunshot sound tin beryllium heard arsenic aboriginal arsenic 30 minutes earlier sunrise, according to the Merced County Sheriff's Office, and volition extremity astatine sunset. They counsel each hunters, including inferior hunters, to person their hunting licenses with them astatine each times.

The Sheriff's Office says each hunters indispensable person written support from the landowner earlier hunting connected backstage land. Bad limits use to each huntsman and they cannot instrumentality much than 1 ineligible limit. They besides accidental it is amerciable to sprout wrong 150 yards of immoderate occupied structure, and hunters cannot sprout from oregon crossed immoderate nationalist roadway.

For much accusation connected dove hunting play and a afloat database of hunting laws, sojourn the California Department of Fish and Wildlife webpage.