Last edited by MB_Boy; 03-24-2017 at 10:14 AM.
If you can pack it in, You can pack it out !!!
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" The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but building on the new"
Socrates.
This has to be dumbest post I've seen yet.
It isn't just the access and retrieval that are issues. Aircraft used to spot game are really just another harassment that I don't think our animals should have to deal with. It seems unethical to harvest game in whatever manner possible just to guarantee success. If this is your mentality as a hunter, perhaps it would be better for you to start a ranch.
Trouble is easy to find and hard to get rid of.
-Solomon
Maybe we should allow drones to hunt that way everybody in favor of copter hunting wouldn't have to get out of their pickup!!!
As long as the drones were big enough to also hold at least two AR's so that they would eventually be able to down the animal as initial tests with heat seeking sights may be inaccurate. The drone would also have to be large enough to extract the animal from its location of demise.Set the drone up with a cleaning station while in the air and the guts and blood could be widely distributed for an even coating of fertilizer along the way. In fact, if we do this all correctly we could hunt from the comfort of our own living rooms and never have to leave the house. Ahhhhh The outdoors........ Nothing like the fresh air and nature while you slurp your Coors from the couch.........
We should just be able to order wild game on Amazon.ca and have it shipped to your location so you can shoot it at home!
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It's too easy to spot game and land near it with a helicopter, so for up here and in this province I'm cool with the heli ban. That being said hunting pigs in the states from the door of a flying heli with a AR looks like unbelievable fun.
You raise a very interesting point. There are significant amounts of technology at our disposal that are all considered okay simply because we use them. Many of those techs, when they were first introduced, were likely opposed by the hunters of the time. It's interesting to consider the things that we consider "okay" by current standards...and where that line is drawn. "I'm all for XX, but anything else is just too far!" GPS overlays on Google Earth are big ones...remember when you actually had to get out and walk an area to understand what it was like? Or when guys wouldn't shoot a moose because they didn't have a quad to haul it 10 kms out of the bush on trails far too small for a truck?
I'd argue that quads probably have as detrimental an effect on hunting as helicopters do...maybe even moreso.
I definitely understand the comments here as to limiting access; however, many make it sound like you would get to land, hop out, shoot, and fly away. One assumes that the goat that you see when you get out won't be waiting for you until the next day.
But yet, an interesting discussion. Thanks for the feedback.
I've never done a fly-in hunt...do the pilots do laps around the area that you're going to hunt to allow you to "spot game" before you land so that you know where to go? I'd assume probably not...and guessing heli pilots wouldn't either. I'm not defending or advocating for it...just thinking about the issue.