Banning Hunting Tech in Idaho

[IdahoJoe29]

The areas I hunt have more game than ever. Can't speak for everywhere else.

I'd bet you a months pay that more animals are straight up poached in Idaho in one year than have been taken with thermals, drones or cell cams combined since they were invented.

I'm absolutely against any additional laws until we can actually enforce the ones we have in place.

There’s not one law in the world that has been enforced perfectly. People get away with murder every day so I guess we shouldn’t enforce or add any more laws


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[WeiserBucks]

There’s not one law in the world that has been enforced perfectly. People get away with murder every day so I guess we shouldn’t enforce or add any more laws

Do we need more laws against murder? Or should we ban things murderers use to kill people?

 

[CorbLand]

It’s really too bad the internet wasnt around when they introduced the idea of regulating hunting.

 

[voltage]

The areas I hunt have more game than ever. Can't speak for everywhere else.

I'd bet you a months pay that more animals are straight up poached in Idaho in one year than have been taken with thermals, drones or cell cams combined since they were invented.

I'm absolutely against any additional laws until we can actually enforce the ones we have in place.

You’d definitely win during the years that Muley Freak comes to town.

 

[omicron1792]

There’s not one law in the world that has been enforced perfectly. People get away with murder every day so I guess we shouldn’t enforce or add any more laws


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Worst strawman I have seen in a while on here.

 

[Wagondriver]

I knew guys in Colorado that hunted coyotes, fox and whatever else they could find, with thermals and night vision. I've seen the good ones, they turn night into day, nothing can hide unless its behind a solid barrier. It was never legal, they'd even post pictures of their "night rigs" on internet forums. To my knowledge they were never caught.
Last elk season, I believe a guy was using thermal or night vision, I heard the 4 shots before legal shooting light. Killed a really nice bull that I was after. Of course he took a side by side a few miles into an area with no motor vehicle access, or should I say legal access.

Thermals for locating game prior to daylight are a game changer. How many times have you sat in the dark waiting to hear a bugle so you knew exactly where the elk were?

For wolves, and coyotes, I'd like to see thermals legal. For deer, elk, and other big game I say no.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

Its pretty obvious to me those opposed to more laws/restrictions have never actually looked through a high end thermal at a hillside 500-1000 yards out in the dark. They are unmatched against any other piece of technology in the last 100 years. Nothing is in the same realm. They need to be banned entirely for everything hunting related, minus wolves. In my younger more desperate years I would have been using thermals legally in ID and filled my tags in 1/10th the time it normally takes. Thankfully I never owed a pair as I would feel ashamed to the core for the rest of my life.

It doesnt matter to me one bit if laws are unenforceable or not. If thermals are banned there will be less thermals in the deer/elk woods than now, and thats a net positive if you care at all about fair chase.