New Rules go to Idaho Fish and Game Commission for approval, meeting Nov 19-20

[WRO]

Night hunting is already illegal for big game. Thermals are used at night to locate game. Pretty straightforward. Common sense is a thing.

Drones ? Come on man !

Cel cams - debatable.

There is no way to accurately study the impacts of these devices on success rates. At best we could ask hunters to voluntarily disclose what tech they used to harvest (or hunt unsuccessfully) through the mandatory reports but how many will be honest ?
Add in the cost to do all this data collection over several years and then ask for input again from hunters to their satisfaction… it’s just not feasible.

Use thermals all day long, nothing can hide from them.

 

[Jeff5053]

I draw the line at thermals..

Agreed. Drones are a concern for me as well. Based on what I am reading in this thread, in terms of the use of drones. I can locate and put an animal to bed with a drone and go up the next morning to hunt it? This does not seem like fair chase either. Am I reading it wrong?

 

[IdahoBeav]

I wish people were this concerned about enforcing laws on four-wheelers and SxS. They are way more deadly than thermals or Cellular Trail cameras.


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Which violations do you see from ATVs and SxS? The only ones I have observed are riding around gates and breaking the motorized hunting rule in the restricted units. Ninety percent of the violations I see are from E-bikes riding non-motorized single track trails. It seems that almost all 2-track and full width trails are open year-round to motorized.

 

[kylem]

Which violations do you see from ATVs and SxS? The only ones I have observed are riding around gates and breaking the motorized hunting rule in the restricted units. Ninety percent of the violations I see are from E-bikes riding non-motorized single track trails. It seems that almost all 2-track and full width trails are open year-round to motorized.

The number of people driving atvs and sxs around gates where they aren’t supposed to in north Idaho is unreal. At least where I am virtually every closed gate has a trail around it. A lot of it is private timber ground that is open to public access but not motorized access. My fear is eventually they will get tired of the dealing with it, shut down public access, and go to private leases like they have in other places.

 

[WRO]

Which violations do you see from ATVs and SxS? The only ones I have observed are riding around gates and breaking the motorized hunting rule in the restricted units. Ninety percent of the violations I see are from E-bikes riding non-motorized single track trails. It seems that almost all 2-track and full width trails are open year-round to motorized.

Plenty of tracks in the wilderness I found this year.

 

[IdahoBeav]

Plenty of tracks in the wilderness I found this year.

From a 2 or 4 wheel machine? It’s pretty tough if not impossible to get the latter into the wilderness.