RE: interesting read
2011/02/21 23:20:24
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I don’t believe anyone is going to have a problem until they start directing other hunters to intercept the game. If a hunter is on a stand and the game comes to them that isn’t a violation but when someone calls and tells them to go to a different location because the game is going there instead of where they are it then becomes a violation of the law.
As good example would be a conversation I heard a few years ago that went something like this.
Unit one: Hey Joe are you still down by the creek?
Unit two: Yea, what’s up?
Unit one: I can see a big buck laying down behind a pine tree between me and the creek but it is too think to get a shot at him from here. I’m afraid if I move though he will sneak away. Why don’t you come up along the bottom until we have him between us? One of use should be able to get a shot at him.
Unit two: Ok, let me know when you can see me coming up along the creek.
Some time passes with no conversation.
Unit one: Ok, I see you coming, do you see the buck?
Unit two: No, how far away is he?
Unit one: He is about half way between us just on the lower side of that pine tree. Just keep coming up the creek a little more and watch up the hill.
A few more minutes pass with no conversation.
Unit one: Ok, Joe he is right above you can you see him?
Unit two: No there must be too much laurel between us.
Unit one: Just walk toward me and he will have to move and one of us should be able to get a shot.
A few more minutes of silence.
Unit two: Did you get him?
Unit one: I don’t know, I am going down to check now.
No more conversation.
If I had been able to locate these guys they would have been charged because they very clearly used their radios to direct one another to take a deer that they probably wouldn’t have had a shot at without the aid of the radios.
It is the same when a coyote of bobcat hunter uses a tracking device to intercept the game they are hunting. It is not a problem though if they just use the tracking device to locate their dogs after the hunt is over.
R.S. Bodenhorn