Shooting hours ethics.

[KFhunter]

OK guys don't say I never done nothing for you......

click this link and download it to your phone, set the alarm to go off when it is shooting light and/or set it to go off again when shooting hours are over depending on what you need.

http://www.myxer.com/ringtone/id/223/huntingtones/Mallard/


You're welcome.

[Fishnclifff]

That ringtone would be ok any where except a duck blind.

You would be using an electronic device to make a duck call.

Wouldn't necessarily be the express purpose of the ringtone, but if Mr. Gammie heard it, you would have some splainin to do.

[BiggLuke]

That reminds me of something my brother and I thought of....

Yes, electronic calls are a no no...

But, If you put your brother on speaker phone blowing a call, would that count as electronic calling? or is it just the same as being there in person?
 

[scout/sniper]

That reminds me of something my brother and I thought of....

Yes, electronic calls are a no no...

But, If you put your brother on speaker phone blowing a call, would that count as electronic calling? or is it just the same as being there in person?
 

How would you work them in if you weren't watching them?

[BiggLuke]

With the camera on the phone.... DUH.....   

[scout/sniper]

With the camera on the phone.... DUH.....   

Lol, you have put some thought into this.

[BiggLuke]

All I'm saying is he's a much better caller than me.... and It has occured to me that this MIGHT be an option... lol....   

[scout/sniper]

It's very clever I'll give you that. 

[Fishnclifff]

That reminds me of something my brother and I thought of....

Yes, electronic calls are a no no...

But, If you put your brother on speaker phone blowing a call, would that count as electronic calling? or is it just the same as being there in person?
 

Seems i need my son's friend on speed dial. He is a wicked caller.

In answer to your question--- still using an electronic device to produce the sound.

[KFhunter]

crap - I didn't think of that 

[steen]

so if you had a huge buck and could see him fiveUnited before legal light would you take him ? should be the same answer I guess I'm alone here.

I had an elk in front of me 20 minutes before shooting hours and I could see him plain as day (which surprised me, I'm usually the one to leave 5-10 before shooting time is over cause I can't see antlers anyway).  I waited and shot him the first second I could after the opener, 7:05 am
Oh! If you  need an alarm don't bother with the silent mode use a duck call as your alarm! 

[sakoshooter]

 

Does not matter if it is ducks, geese, deer, or elk, if you shoot before or after legal hours you are poaching.

[Bob33]

5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes - all the same.

Just do the right thing.

[goosegunner]

I also set my alarm on my phone for legal shoot time  (vibrate mode). If ducks land in the decs early I will hold tight and just whatch and wait for the alarm. Now when it gets to within a minute or 2 of shootime i tend to get on edge a bit. And if others start firing early i will grab the gun and wait for them to flush. If they flush they get popped if they sit tight I wait for the alarm but only in that 1-2 minutes early frame.   I tell on refuge hunts i'm scared to death to be the first to fire a shot. I've had birds in the decs the alarm has buzzed in my pocket but no else has fired yet and I will do the same wait for someone else to shoot first. Or only shoot if the birds flush

[Stickerbush]

Had an lame experience with this topic on Friday. Took work off to hunt a quality site up in skagit with some buds. Waited until shooting light had some ducks cruising the deles, double checked the legal time which was 7 20 I think it was. The other blind down the way, started shooting a few minutes early, well OK whatever the ducks we were watching were gone. Anyway we get to hunting, had a decent shoot.

Then around 9 or 10am we see this guy walking out of what we thought was a closed hunting area. He walks up to our blind with his two labs running wild and immediately starts  accusing us of shooting early and we were lucky that there were no officers around. Politely, we inform him that no we were shooting at legal time and he might be referring too the other group of hunters the next blind over. Anyway he didn't even know what the correct shooting light was so my buddy showed him on his smartphone. Over and over this dude is accusing us of breaking the law and shooting at 7 10 or something and that he is affiliated with wdfw. Bs or something. Meanwhile ducks are flying around and he is starting to mess up our hunt. So at this Point we are like get the f outta here! Different words still trying to be civil. Finally he starts to go still yelling that we are wrong and gets picked up by some truck or something. This dude was an idiot he seemed drunk and we think he was trying to shift blame on us while we saw him coming out of a closed area. He also said some crap like he is a local and basically we shouldn't be there coming from Seattle area. But so what I took a vacation day got up at 1 45am to secure a spot, paddled a raft around a pond in snow freezing wind to set decoys I got as much right to hunt this as any in the state!

Sorry for the rant, it was a good day all in all we ran out ta shells, I just don't like people coming into my hunt accusing me of hunting Illegally, if you have a problem call the wdfw cops let them sort it out I have nothing to hide, PS I always have my cellphone to check the time!