Technology in hunting today

Kelly Timoffee said:
Well, after parading around the bush in my loin cloth and a spear made from a sharp rock and poplar branch to appease the traditional methods of hunting endorsed in this thread, I came to the conclusion that some progress and technology is not so bad.
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Don't wear a deerskin loin cloth, someone might get you on camera
 
beefman said:
What leads you to that conclusion?
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What leads me to this conclusion? All the young folks that came out with their electronic toys , went home with their toys rather than animals. But nice pics, some of animals that were already hanging in the barn before they seen the pics.:rolleyes:
 
fiddler said:
What leads me to this conclusion? All the young folks that came out with their electronic toys , went home with their toys rather than animals. But nice pics, some of animals that were already hanging in the barn before they seen the pics.:rolleyes:
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I just want to know who all of these "young folks with their electronic toys" are... And for that matter what deer you had ever shot they were hoping to harvest?

I just find some of your posts ironic considering you were bested by your girlfriend her first year hunting, while playing with her cell phone....
 
Internet messageboards are likely one of the most ready sources of information there is and there's little question this information is instrumental in many animals being killed........ban the internet!;) Technolgy is all around us and we all use it...prettyhard to limit it. When you put a limit on one type of technology, they invent another....get used to it!
 
I still find something magical about walking around in the deer woods in the fall not knowing what you;re going to see. If I happen to get a "boomer" I'm like a kid on Christmas morning, but that's not why I hunt. I own lots of gadgets and gear,some I use others not so much. If you choose to hunt traditional good for you,if you choose to hunt with all the most modern equipment available that;s great too. At the end of the day it boils down to just one question. Did you enjoy the hunt? Bragging size racks and full freezers have no bearing on how successful or enjoyable a hunt was. As the Nike commercial says "Just do it". Best wishes to everyone for a great 2011 season!!!!
 
Big Game said:
I still find something magical about walking around in the deer woods in the fall not knowing what you;re going to see. If I happen to get a "boomer" I'm like a kid on Christmas morning, but that's not why I hunt. I own lots of gadgets and gear,some I use others not so much. If you choose to hunt traditional good for you,if you choose to hunt with all the most modern equipment available that;s great too. At the end of the day it boils down to just one question. Did you enjoy the hunt? Bragging size racks and full freezers have no bearing on how successful or enjoyable a hunt was. As the Nike commercial says "Just do it". Best wishes to everyone for a great 2011 season!!!!
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I haven't been following this thread, because it basically is a no win type of thing. But your one little sentence here, "Did you enjoy the hunt?" is really what it is all about and for me, says it all.
To me hunting is a challenge. I use a modern rifle, but go into the bush on foot and the game still has most of the advantages. On two different occasions I have picked up a fresh moose track in the snow just after daylight in the morning, followed the moose all day and shot him about three in the afternoon. A bull moose is tremendously hard to get under those conditions. Those big ears hear everything and their noses are are second to none in nature. Moose wrote the book on how to bed down for a daytime snooze in such a place that no hunter will sneak up on them. I felt very proud of myself on those hunts when I got the moose. And for every time I was successful on such a hunt, there were at least five when the moose won.
I have also jumped out of trucks and shot some poor old moose that was just standing there, wondering what that thing was that just drove up. I don't enjoy that type of "getting my moose," or feel one bit proud of it. But that is me. We are all different.
 
Should fancy technology be legal? Of course.
Will it guarantee you an animal? Nope.
Does it make the hunt more/less enjoyable or ethical? Depends who you are.

Don't forget that hunting seasons and limits will be changed to reflect the sucess of the average hunter and the size of the herd. If technology = greater success rates then expect shorter seasons and less tags let. If technology = guys playing with their iPhone in the treestand while deer sneak by unnoticed then expect some generous hunting seasons.

I'm in both camps. I don't mind using every bit of technology available to find an animal. GIS habitat analysis-yep. Trail cameras-yep. Night vision-yep (in a legal context :D) Baiting-yep. But I'm also very happy to walk out the door with a rifle and a knife in my wool and waxed canvass and see what happens.

Keep it legal and keep hunting. :rockOn:
 
I'm all for anything new. Where would we be without the evolution of hunting gear.

Not all that long ago this was all new stuff, and i'm glad we have them.
  1. Smokeless powder
  2. Scopes/optics
  3. Scents/attractants
  4. Calls(the old type)
  5. Climbing tree stands
  6. Premium bullets
  7. Comound bows
  8. Modern camo
  9. ATVs
  10. Much much more
 
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