Idaho on the verge of outlawing

[NOCK NOCK]

I’d argue this is just more of a reason that hunting would get attacked by non hunters. Imagine explaining to someone that doesn’t hunt that you use remote cellular surveillance to track wildlife’s whereabouts so you can go shoot them. Hunting won’t be illegal in Idaho anytime soon, your views are washed from your experiences in Washington.

It’s funny really that this is a conversation at all. If someone posed the idea of cameras in the woods sending on the spot photos to your phone to their deer camp in the late 90’s everyone would be appalled. We’ve gotten lazy and greedy as hunters.

I  may be influenced by my views from Washington experiences. But that doesn’t change anything.
Look how many members alone from Washington are bailing ship and moving to Idaho….. which is fast becoming another Washington.

Time changes everything.  do you think way back in the old days those people ever thought of thousand yard rifles , laser rangefinders, scopes, getting into your hunting spot in a four-wheel-drive air-conditioned vehicle instead of a horse, etc?

Again, it’s just not as easy as you folks try to make it sound, just get a picture and go out there and shoot it, easy peasy.  (but let’s also not forget that I’m a bad hunter with a drug addicted mother who was drunk, so what do I know as a 60 year hunter. )

Carry On.  I’m out for good this time. 

[BeerBugler]

I’d rather spend time with my kids than check SD cards, I’d rather go into an area 1 time instead of 4, I’d rather spend $20 on gas instead of $80. If I can’t run cell cams then I’ll run traditional cameras, if I can’t run traditional cameras than I’ll glass the area from afar, it really just saves time and money and relationships (wife). Good hunters are going to get it done (if they want to) regardless of whatever obstacles you decide to impose on them. You can give 20 cell cams to the majority of hunters and it’s not going to change whether they are successful or not, all these anecdotes about guys harvesting with the aid of cameras fail to take into consideration that those guys probably would have found away to get it done either way. The majority of game managers in Idaho want to open up opportunities in Idaho, want to extend seasons in Idaho, its HUNTERS who keep pushing for restrictions because they think more restrictions will bring back the good ol days, the reality is Hunter harvest is not even in the conversation when it comes to population decline .i wish hunters could get it through there heads that restricting opportunity never leads to more opportunity!

[NOCK NOCK]

 

[2MANY]

Sorry to hear about your mom Nock.

[NOCK NOCK]

Sorry to hear about your mom Nock.

My Mother was a great woman. Who has passed…….and I miss her every day.

Usually I find your posts kinda funny. Not on this one FWIW. 

[CarbonHunter]

So I brought it up pages ago and never got the pro cell cameras banned folks to comment on these reasons so let’s post them again for consideration.

It is already illegal to hunt animals with the aid of radio telemetry equipment.

It is already illegal to use radios to relay the location of game animals.

It is already illegal to fly a drone in the same day you hunt because it relays pictures of animals to a hunter.

Omg could you imagine if there was one piece of technology that did all 3 of those without a human operator and you get it in real time?  I wonder what that piece of technology would be called?  Sounds a lot like what a cell or satellite transmitting camera would do. 🤯

This isn’t about taking hunter rights. It’s about legal definitions catching up with technology. Currently it is legal to use them and have fun while it lasts but at the end of the day this concept has always been banned in most states… during hunting seasons on a day you hunt and that is what is being proposed. Don’t make this into something it isn’t and just look at it for what it is.

[Moose Master]

Look at what electronics did to fishing both recreational and commercial.   Cellular game cameras are no different.