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RE: interesting read 2011/02/19 21:17:15 (permalink)
So if you are listening to the radio and someone says there are deer heading down the valley and I know I am in that valley it would be a violation to shoot one ??

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RE: interesting read 2011/02/19 21:31:31 (permalink)
I believe it would according to the law, but only you know what you heard! 
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RE: interesting read 2011/02/20 08:02:01 (permalink)
but may not be used to direct or alert another hunter
of the presence or location of live game or wildlife.


Based on that wording it would be illegal to radio a friend to tell him that you saw a bear, turkey, fox or yote while hunting deer.

What we really need to know is how the WCOs interpret and enforce the law.
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RE: interesting read 2011/02/21 23:20:24 (permalink)
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.
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RE: interesting read 2011/02/22 06:48:55 (permalink)
Good explaination RSB....Thanks..

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RE: interesting read 2011/02/22 12:57:23 (permalink)
With SGL#54 so close if you have a radio on "scan" the first morning of rifle season I doubt you will see any deer... it's almost constant radio communications. Many use an ear piece so as not to disturb the deer

It's even hard to find a channel where no one else is using it...
It's really quit amazing...
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RE: interesting read 2011/02/22 17:57:30 (permalink)
Thanks RSB. It's good to hear that WCOs are using good judgement in enforcing that section of the code.
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