My My how the meaning of hunting has changed. But to me this is why it's to late to expect any law to ever educate or control hunting. Go ahead, blast away, tell me how ethical and responsible The thing that has made ethical, legal, responsible, or any description of hunting common sense has gone by the wayside, to many wanna bees, hunting show watchers, advertising sucked in me too's. No more that consider hunting boots on the ground, and cherished time stalking the way the trophy we are pursing does it, hell thats to much work, and requires to much skill, and time in the real hunting world!!
Paying big money to secure leases, hiring guides, and taking any real skill out of the term hunting. Paying for others to do the true work for them so they can boast about being a hunter????? OK, we are impressed. The same "hunters" that brag about 800 and 1000 yard kills, while never speaking or mentioning how many animals, including Trophy grade animals they have wounded or maimed to never recover or have a clue if they lived or died. To many that think 80 or 90% is a good kill ratio over shots taken. Sad, but this is exactly what the majority of humans hiding behind the term hunter to describe themselves, when "WANTA-BEE'S" is a better term!
Today blinds on poles, shoot thru windows, buddy heaters, cell phones, quads, bikes, you name it, and you'll find those hiding behind all of it calling themselves hunters! BS, I call it agents of opportunity. They call hunting smart, "smart" a word introduced in the cyber world to create the LAZIEST SOCIETY the world has ever known, and sadly hunting has become part of it.
16# hunting rifles, obviously firearms that were developed for target shooting, not hunting. Air guns that use bottled gas, and air pumps, not a compression chamber and physical charging to propel the ammunition. rifles and handguns that rely on the largest amunition battery to feed them, knowing the true reason they build them that way is not dangerous encounters, but 99% percent built or bought that way for the purpose of as many follow up shots as they can have to throw lead at anything regardless of being ethical, or responsible! Confusing hunting grade weapons for target and assualt grade weapons,,, sad, very sad.
By now I'm sure many already have drawn a hate for my comments, but without a doubt not one ethical hunter reading this can find one false statement in what I am making. Those that do, I'm just guessing now are those that that could care less about hunting, or ethics, but want anything that goes to be considered hunting.
Base camp is no longer for eating and sleeping only, they're doubling as blinds, our trucks are no longer just to get use to the woods or hunting grounds, their used to stalk and glass from, and many who will never fess up shoot from them, our quads bikes and horses are not for getting game out, they're being used to stalk and more and more to park beside a heated blind or stand, so folks can set and drink hot coffee while they cruise the internet, and undress as the heater warms them and run their business or play games and socialize from, hoping game will walk by or hit a feeder they filled to call themselves hunters???
I am sorry, I know have offended many, probably the majority here. But 71 years ago I was thought to hunt, and never was drove to to stand or to the woods from the road to do what I was taught hunting was. Never was told if I see something worth shooting, to start shooting and don't stop till it was down! I was taught with a single shot shotgun and 22 rf. My first rifle was a M/L, and first centerfire held 3 rounds. But I was taught to make sure the animal was presented properly and within my range to make a responsible one shot kill, only if it was a bad shot from a mistake that wasn't taken on purpose should I ever need a second!
I am just glad when I was at my peak, hunting was a lot different, and why today I feel hunters are far fewer than claimed. Yes I know we still have many who know what the true term hunting is, and not a slang for something you take advantage of when you're actively enjoying some other social activity, if the opportunity to kill presents itself. Those that know why we don't consider 10 or 20 pound firearms hunting rifles, confusing things that restrict are ability to stalk swiftly and unrestricted when needed, when that hard earned opportunity presents itself. As well as those that still know how to turn the cell phone off, and concentrate on making what they are pursuing IN THE WILD, the only thing their objective is. But as I have made clear, I see fewer and fewer every season, with more and more using the term hunting, like a whore uses the term love, for anything but!
Sorry folks, but sometimes you got to call it like it is! I probably shouldn't have read as many posts as I did, but in my old age this was one of those times I just refuse to call an orange an apple! Sorry,, sad to be honest, but Sorry it is what it is.