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Post by whiteoak on Aug 21, 2008 22:16:10 GMT -5
It's good clean fun. I love to shine. You got to use some common sense when doing it.
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Post by cambygsp on Aug 22, 2008 2:25:49 GMT -5
Yea! If we outlaw spotlighting the next thing we could do is just outlaw looking at anybodys property during anytime of the day or night.
The law currently reads that if you are shining deer at night, YOU CAN NOT HAVE A FIREARM IN YOUR VEHICLE OR IN YOUR POSSESSION, so if you are following the law and you don't have a firearm, how could you be poaching?
I just don't understand how some folks think that by changing laws, you will stop criminals. Criminals are just that, criminals......they will break the law no matter what the laws are!
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Post by 76chevy on Aug 22, 2008 8:32:26 GMT -5
it is a lot of fun!
I have been checked several times by the ICO so I know they are keeping an eye out for road shooters
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Post by varmint101 on Aug 22, 2008 8:42:54 GMT -5
Makes me want to dig out my light now! That was pretty fun.
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Post by Greenedog on Aug 22, 2008 9:13:55 GMT -5
My son posted a video on youtube of us doing some spotlighting and really took a beating from people saying how unethical and illegal this was and they wanted youtube to yank the video. He didn't let it bother him though, the videos still up and he just deleted all the really nasty comments. We don't really use spotlighting as a scouting tool, for us its something fun to do in the "offseason". Here's the video:
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Post by oldrookie on Aug 22, 2008 10:57:05 GMT -5
Nice video. How the heck could anyone take exception to that.
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Post by raporter on Aug 22, 2008 15:38:19 GMT -5
I agree there should be no time restrictions. We do it and have a great time doing it. Just because I am going to be asleep before midnight isn't a reason to keep someone else from having fun.
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Post by mbogo on Aug 22, 2008 18:40:07 GMT -5
I enjoy spotlighting and in some cases it can be a good scouting tool. As far as I can tell the two main reasons some hunters are against it are because of scaring deer out of a field and poaching. As for scaring deer off of a field, I wouldn't imagine that the odds of a mature buck exposing himself in an open field near a road are very good even if it has not been spotted so that seems like a moot point to me. Secondly, we all know that banning spotlighting is not going to deter poachers in the least and frankly, I would much rather innocent spotlighters make the deer more wary of spotlights than give poachers an opportunity to shoot deer that have never been spotlighted before.
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Post by Bentwrench on Aug 22, 2008 21:11:46 GMT -5
Spotlighting around here is a community past-time ! Been going on for years. Even the non-hunters like to see large numbers of deer in a field and maybe see the "big one". It is common sense not to light up someones barnlot or house and yes, when later at night it makes you wonder what someone is doing. It is something I've always enjoyed doing you can watch deer activity, velvet leaving, rut coming on, the whole process. Hope it is never made illegal, from the stand point of a "shinner" and land owner.
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