Shooting hours ethics.

[jason4429]

If it's light enough to I.D. them, it's shooting time.  It's never occurred to me to be a clock watcher in the blind.

You may not be a clock watcher but the game wardens,so I wait until shooting time.

[Skyvalhunter]

the game wardens what

[ICEMAN]

If it's light enough to I.D. them, it's shooting time.  It's never occurred to me to be a clock watcher in the blind.

 

who carries a watch or phone with them? if its light enough out to see what you're shooting at, shoot away .

Surely you are kidding.

Every hunter should be required to carry a timepiece. How else are you going to be compliant with shooting light game laws. 

Also, ethically you need to ID your game no matter the time, so if extra dark morning, shooting light changes....

Apparently, you haven't been to the eastside, especially during opening day on modern elk or deer.
And to all of you who carries a watch or phone with them? I have an answer.

1.) I don't have $400 dollars laying around to replace my phone.
2.) Watches can also go out and make noise.

I am not a rich, sit on your ass all day, can afford everything westsider.

Look pal, if you want to get in a pissing match, you have selected the wrong guy.

I have hunted all over this state. Shooting light ethically changes depending on weather.

You can't afford a twenty dollar watch, you surely can't afford to go hunting.

[billythekidrock]

I am not a rich, sit on your ass all day, can afford everything westsider.

I didn't see anything that warranted that response. Please dial back a bit.

[Jonathan_S]

  what is this guys deal?

Calm the heck down man, if you don't want to carry one then don't but don't act like a watch is a class warfare subject.  A watch battery lasts like six years by the way 

[Skyvalhunter]

I see a timeout in someone's future!!

[Heredoggydoggy]

I always found that "Legal shooting times" were pretty liberal here.  By the time I could see well enough to identify my target, it was always a few minutes into shooting hours.  And when I was walking towards my pickup nearly a half hour before the end of shooting hours, I met another hunter who was also done hunting, and like we agreed on: "If you can't see 'em (deer), you don't shoot 'em". 

[lokidog]

Naches, too bad you didn't join HuntWa sooner, you might have been able to get a watch in the Christmas gift exchange... it was a $25 suggested limit though so maybe not.      

[Jonathan_S]

Naches, too bad you didn't join HuntWa sooner, you might have been able to get a watch in the Christmas gift exchange... it was a $25 suggested limit though so maybe not.   

   I've got a watch that I had to buy and wear in basic training that cost $12.99 back in 2008, it's still working.

[KopperBuck]

I hate wearing watches. I use my phone - and I'm an eastsider!!!! The only thing I don't like about using my phone is how bright the *censored* is. Thinking about buying a watch that I'll attach to my waders. I hunt around a lot of mountains so many times shooting time is not shooting light. Hell, most of the time I've hunted the big river it's been too dark at shooting time.

[KFhunter]

I would put my phone on alarm mode and not shoot until it buzzed in my inside jacket pocket.


just me

[Heredoggydoggy]

I had a Casio $8.95 watch that was a few years old when I inadvertently wore it SCUBA diving to 50 feet of salt water.  I figured it was a goner, as it only said "water resistant".  The battery died and it quit running a few years later.    I've had 2 more of the same watch since then.  I think they've gone up to $20 now.   

[Heredoggydoggy]

I would put my phone on alarm mode and not shoot until it buzzed in my inside jacket pocket.


just me

I try to remember to leave the phone in the rig.  Seems like it only rings when I'm on a deer or coyote stand! 

[ICEMAN]

No kidding. I have watches Ihaven't used in years still keeping good time on my dresser.

Naches, how do you keep track of arriving at work etc....with no watch or timepiece?

Us rich guys over here on the westside are curious.

[KopperBuck]

I would put my phone on alarm mode and not shoot until it buzzed in my inside jacket pocket.


just me

That makes too much sense - why would I do that??? I never turn my phone on silent because it's my work phone, but I'll have to remember this. Sometimes the simplest stuff rides right on by me....