Idaho Fish and Game considering restricting the use of trail cameras

[Billinsd]

I never realized you hunted with a flintlock, using homemade black powder, bullets you cast from lead you mined yourself, in your buckskin clothes and moccasins after you rode your horse bareback into the great unknown. By all means, carry on.

Flintlock! Pfsst!! Home made bow and arrows made out of local materials using primitive tools. That's fair chase!! People like to restrict/ban technology that they can't, won't, or don't personally want to use. I'm not for no regulation, but now a days we have too many, and many are a bit silly and unenforceable. How about having to fly an arrow 150 yards to be legal? Wasn't that, isn't that I--Dee-ho?

 

[Pro953]

One somewhat interesting bit that came up in a recent podcast that I think is applicable here. With all of the changes and increases in technology, have we really seen a increase in harvest success rates over the last decade or so? Not knocking technology at all. I love it and enjoy buying and trying new gear. Just not sure all the gear makes me a better hunter, just a more comfortable one.


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[chindits]

I don't have a trail cam that transmits pics. I have to sneak in and sneak out just like when I am glassing for critters. Game cams have definitely decreased my potential to harvest because now I know there are big bulls and a bull with a drop time in otc units. Rag horns and cows don't interest me anymore. More opportunities for you meat hunters. I already know where the elk are. I don't just set up a cam in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Gobbler36]

I feel this is not a good idea. A game camera is by general definition an aid, but to what extent is it an aid? A game camera does not give you much better an opportunity to harvest an animal than any other type of hunting device. I have used cameras here in NC for 15 years. I cannot reasonably say that they have helped me kill more animals. They have helped me target specific animals, because without the camera it is doubtful i would have known they were there. Cameras also allow me to see other animals that I may not be targeting. I use cameras to keep tabs on the predators in my area (coyote, bobcat and bears). I also use them for security to keep an eye out for trespassers and thieves (private land). In the end the camera is just another tool to help me with scouting and hunting. Its no different than my bow, GPS, rifle, treestands, food plots or a multitude of other items I use. You ban one "aid" then what's to say another isn't next? Next it could be rangefinders, or scoped rifles or GPS units or satellite phones. You give them an inch, they will take a mile.

I am from the east before I moved to Idaho, hunted on a couple leases and I bet there was 30-40 cameras on one property from different individuals, and I used them and I have no shame in admitting that they helped me harvest and animal saying they don't is lying to yourself, how can they not you can tell when an animal is moving what trails direction of travel and the list goes on. I could get pics of a deer and they me be all pics at night but as soon as I got a daylight pic I made it a point to be in the woods, and I absolutely felt this resulted in more encounters. I mean come on if they didn't help knowone would pay $100's to run cameras.

 

[Gobbler36]

One somewhat interesting bit that came up in a recent podcast that I think is applicable here. With all of the changes and increases in technology, have we really seen a increase in harvest success rates over the last decade or so? Not knocking technology at all. I love it and enjoy buying and trying new gear. Just not sure all the gear makes me a better hunter, just a more comfortable one.


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I think so I mean look at some of the archery rates some are up with freaking rifle hunts. I said some not all but what may be worse is that some places used to have otc have now went to limited entry due to increased success. I understand there are a ton factors, predation, habitat loss, disease that could of effected the numbers so take that with a grain of salt

 

[Grundy53]

I am from the east before I moved to Idaho, hunted on a couple leases and I bet there was 30-40 cameras on one property from different individuals, and I used them and I have no shame in admitting that they helped me harvest and animal saying they don't is lying to yourself, how can they not you can tell when an animal is moving what trails direction of travel and the list goes on. I could get pics of a deer and they me be all pics at night but as soon as I got a daylight pic I made it a point to be in the woods, and I absolutely felt this resulted in more encounters. I mean come on if they didn't help knowone would pay $100's to run cameras.

Most critters out west aren't nearly as patternable as whitetails.

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[Gobbler36]

Most critters out west aren't nearly as patternable as whitetails.

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Maybe not but they are patternable

 

[chindits]

[QUOTE-cameras helped me harvest and animal saying they don't is lying to yourself, how can they not .[/QUOTE]

Pretty strong words to someone you don't know. I have never harvested an animal who has crossed my game camera. However, I have not attempted to take opportunities that cows and raghorns have given me because I know there are better bulls out there. In addition, I have also had years where I have glassed up bigger animals then I have caught on camera. I am sure your local elk are predictable but come rut and hunting seasons our local elk are not. Call me a liar, but I have been called worse.

 

[MacAttack]

Resurrecting an old thread...anything come of this? Is it illegal to have game cams or ones that transmit in Idaho? My brother bought some for AZ not knowing it was illegal there, so now I might be getting some new cams...

Also, I live in WA. I do not believe it is illegal here.

 

[S.Clancy]

TBH I hope they get rid of all trail camera use on public lands. While it's cool to see what animals are in there its also cool to have the unknown. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Clarktar]

TBH I hope they get rid of all trail camera use on public lands. While it's cool to see what animals are in there its also cool to have the unknown. Just my 2 cents.

Interesting...

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[Gr8bawana]

TBH I hope they get rid of all trail camera use on public lands. While it's cool to see what animals are in there its also cool to have the unknown. Just my 2 cents.

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