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Post by drs on Feb 3, 2015 9:46:19 GMT -5
Don't think this was ever an Indiana law but it was in Minnesota I believe. Used to be in the Regs book that was published every year. Don't know if it was an actual Indiana Code or not though. I have not seen it mentioned in the last few Regs books. Not certain now, but when I hunted out in Colorado back in the late '80s to '90's it was illegal for Hunters to communicate via Walkies to inform each other about game movements.
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Post by omegahunter on Feb 3, 2015 10:00:23 GMT -5
Used to be in the Regs book that was published every year. Don't know if it was an actual Indiana Code or not though. I have not seen it mentioned in the last few Regs books. I don't ever recall it being in any rule book. LOTS of hunters thought it was though. Anybody got a reg book from about 15 years ago they can check? This was before EVERYBODY had a cell and I think it read "walkie talkies". It didn't say you couldn't use them; just that you could not use them to alert other hunters about deer movement. We always used them to call for backup when we had a deer down. Nine of us hunted one 115 acre piece of property and only one had an atv.
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Post by chubwub on Feb 3, 2015 10:26:05 GMT -5
Here is how the drone thing will work. A guy will spend around $2000 building his fancy drone to use for hunting. He will fly it over the treetops and be amazed at how awesome it is. He will fly it below the trees and spots a big buck with it just down the ridge. A gust of wind barely stronger than a grandma fart will blow the drone into a tree and it will tumble head over heels down the ridge, parts flying everywhere, scare the ever living bejesus out of the buck who promptly takes off towards the neighbors never to be seen again, and the guy gets ticked because it's getting dark and he can't figure out exactly where his $2000 drone crashed.
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Post by jjas on Feb 3, 2015 10:42:46 GMT -5
Here is how the drone thing will work. A guy will spend around $2000 building his fancy drone to use for hunting. He will fly it over the treetops and be amazed at how awesome it is. He will fly it below the trees and spots a big buck with it just down the ridge. A gust of wind barely stronger than a grandma fart will blow the drone into a tree and it will tumble head over heels down the ridge, parts flying everywhere, scare the ever living bejesus out of the buck who promptly takes off towards the neighbors never to be seen again, and the guy gets ticked because it's getting dark and he can't figure out exactly where his $2000 drone crashed. Sounds all fine and good, but the reality is that many outdoor tv shows are using drones now for camera shots (and who knows what else) and they aren't crashing them into everything and wasting their money in the process. As the technology improves (which it will) there needs to be regulations from not only the FAA but law enforcement and game departments as well on drone usage. If they are legal and people choose to use them, that's their choice, but the reality is that P&Y and B&C won't accept entries that were taken with help from "real time" cams as they feel they violate the spirit of fair chase. And I feel pretty confident in saying the use of drones would violate the spirit of fair chase as well. If a particular hunter doesn't care about "making the book" that's fine, but many are and I'm sure some of them would say to themselves "how will they know?". And when that occurs, hunting has bigger problems than just people wanting to use cameras for surveillance to help them kill trophy animals.
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Post by omegahunter on Feb 4, 2015 16:48:02 GMT -5
I often thought about how many would think who would know with the lighted nocks.
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Post by shouldernuke on Feb 4, 2015 16:51:21 GMT -5
Used to be in the Regs book that was published every year. Don't know if it was an actual Indiana Code or not though. I have not seen it mentioned in the last few Regs books. I don't ever recall it being in any rule book. LOTS of hunters thought it was though. Woody I looked back at even the oldest books I can find it is not in there at all .
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Post by beermanbrian on Feb 5, 2015 12:11:03 GMT -5
MAYBE having licensed active hunters vote, but not all residents. That would be handing whether or not we even get to hunt over to the anti hunting groups. Good Luck with that...Hunters don't own the WILDLIFE!!! And most don't have the education or mental fortitude to make informed decisions on wildlife.
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Post by sakorifle on Feb 5, 2015 16:09:08 GMT -5
Hmmmm Drones are very technical bits of kit now. My friend has one and he uses it to photograph wind blown trees in the forest. And gets paid, it's a lot cheaper than hiring a helicopter. This thing is gps enabled,it will hold position regardless of wind, if it loses radio communication with him the gps Will make it go up high and fly back and land it at his feet Likewise if it runs short on battery it will fly home Grandma's fart won't bother it chubwub, lol Regards Billy
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