>So let me get this correct,
>you are allowed to use
>technology as long as it
>fits your situation but if
>someone else uses a different
>type of technology then they
>are bad hunters????
>
>If I understood you correctly, you
>need to get off your
>high horse cause it is
>only a shetland pony and
>you would stand higher on
>your own 2 feet.
>
>FYI- I have one trail camera
>and it is 6 miles
>in with a 2500' elevation
>gain. The last 400 yards
>is so straight up and
>down you are crawling on
>your hands and feet for
>awile. I check it once
>a week.
>The reason I do not sit
>out there 24/7 during the
>summer scouting is because I
>have three daughters, a wife,
>job and friends. So it
>makes since to use a
>camera. I still get out
>there and do my scouting
>and know where the elk
>are and what they are
>doing but since I use
>a camera I don't get
>out there and hunt the
>way you do???
>
>Again, pick up spear and get
>off the internet and live
>like a caveman and then
>you can run all of
>us lazy ass guys out
>of the woods, until then
>you better pick a different
>subject.
>
>This is just another example we
>as hunters lose rights all
>the time because of this
>stupid ass bickering because one
>guy doesn't like what someone
>else does.
>There is a lot of crap
>I don't like that other
>hunters do but that does
>not mean I am trying
>to ban it.
>Mntman
>
>"Hunting is where you prove yourself"
>
Hey, I don't really have time for this hiking crap so I hunt a ranch with 12 foot fences. I call the week before and buy my deer by the antler inches, they let it out of the pen and I camo up, load up the short mag, bring in a camera crew and if they film it just right the fence isn't in the shot and I kill a big old buck, then I can have a service gut and cut it while I retire to the 5 star rated cabin for some cheese and wine.
I want to kill a bull with a cool name so I am gonna buy a $175k tag that lets me hunt for 4 months state wide. But, I don't like the hunting part so I am gonna hire a fleet of guides, who in turn will hire hundreds of kids to scour the mtn.s looking for a suitable bull. When they find it I will fly in and shoot it, take pics, then fly out and let the guide service cut, gut, drag, then haul it all over the country to use a an advertisement.
I went out to a local island and saw a huge buck. I have to kill this buck. I want it so bad I bought a conservation group, who in turn bought a legislator, who in turn got "hunting" opened on that island. Forget that the biggest deer out there lives 150 feet off a paved road and takes pics with people, killing him makes me the alpha male!
Yup, I agree, banning this crap hurts all of us, the slippery slope argument. HOWEVER, we all can be honest. If you grab a bow, horse or hike into the wilderness and live in a pup tent eating MRE's, your much more of a hunter than me. The dude that killed that snake bull, DIY, during an open season is a 1000x more a hunter than a certain doctor who killed a spider bull last year. Using a guide and/or service is less impressive than DIY any day. Actually scouting is being there on the ground, trail cams aren't. Yes its legal, so are high fences, so is baiting(found this out after challenging the Pig Man about baiting elk in Utah). But is it ethical? High fences, no. Baiting, no. Using technology to scout so you don't have to, I say no, some say yes. I still won't steal your cam, but if I hike in to do some acutall scouting and find a cam and all you get is pictures of a leaf on your lense, sorry, can't control the wind, thats just one of those things that you can fix if your actually there.