Hunting Washington Forum

How about mounted turrets next to your cell cam that are linked to a joystick next to your lounge chair?  That way, you can kill game without even leaving your couch.  Then we can debate how regular hunters shouldn't denigrate joystick hunters because it's "hunter against hunter"?  This the bull feces is getting old.  Let's just ban this crap and get back to hunting like we used to do.  Spending time in the woods after reading signs on the ground and putting meat on the table when we are lucky or put in the effort.   

That said, I'll probably put up some regular cams this weekend just to look at activity.  If banned, I'll abide by that.  So I'm a bit two-faced I guess.

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So does Idaho have data that supports an increase take of critters due to cell cameras or is everyone just hypothetically crying the sky is falling and we must do something? This whole issue seems to be trying to solve a problem that doesn’t seem to exist but there is a vocal minority that wants to be the ethics police for everyone.

There's some data out there I'd have to dig up again
Quite a few articles on the issue as well.
This isn't a new issue..it's just something that needs to be addressed before it gets out of control.
Is their a negative opinion of states that already have restrictions like Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Montana and Kansas just to name a few ...

Idahos data doesn’t bear out what all the hypothetical conjecture is saying this is giving hunters an unfair advantage. Harvest isn’t trending up at all with cell cams become mainstream over this time period.

Honestly dude these data don't say anything other than the population is going down.  Harvest numbers are a confluence of a number of things, and with those alone you can't answer the question you want to answer.

You’re just furthering my point because there is NO DATA just peoples opinions and that is good enough for guys to tell others they shouldn’t be able to hunt how they want.

There’s a number of people on here that don’t embrace tech and by doing so is self regulating. We don’t need the government stepping in every time a KAREN doesn’t like the way someone is hunting.

Quote from: vandeman17 on Today at 10:15:45 AM

I have mixed feelings on my experience. The good side of things was that there were multiple locations to drop off the samples that were easy to find and well marked. The bad side was that there was no in person sites since general deer season hadn't started yet and also really no directions on how to get to the lymph nodes. We tried watching a few youtube videos that each showed different ways of getting to them. Honestly, I don't even know if what I got was the actual lymph nodes but I put in the little envelope what we guessed were them so we did our part. Bigger picture, do I think doing all this will make a lick of difference with how they manage the herds, that is a big fat negative.

Same here with lymph nodes.  They're not as easy to find as the videos show.  I did my sister's and my son's buck.  Pretty sure I got both the glands on my sister's deer, but on my son's I got three things that looked like a lymph node.  I bagged all three.  Hope I did it right, but clearly I'm not 100% sure.  I'm not turning in the heads, we did euros on both bucks.

Ha ha, I did the same thing in Idaho a few years ago!  3 "lymph nodes" in a bag, but hey I still got a result (negative, fortunately).  Whatever you/I did seemed to work.  I also watched a video beforehand and then a second time on one of the pack outs and actually went back to the carcass to root around a little more.

Buglebuster you have an open invitation for bears an cats anytime!

No tracking dog means NO dog may be used...