Spotlighting?!?

Well i do know on what property i am on and they are pests, and yes when i shoot a cottontail i do pick it up bring it home clean it up and make some stew, i will be calling a game warden that i know today to find out for sure he lives like 15 miles from me.. I don't see how it would be illegal here i don't shoot deer or coyotes just rabbits.. If i PO'd any one i am sorry
Thanks,
Bones
 
No problem with me HAMMER1DOWN. There aren't enough of them to shoot this year. Yotes and foxes have taken their toll I think. We love rabbit, just trying to let them make a come back after I kill off the killers.
Ken

Things were much more balanced when I was home full time.
 
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hell up where i live there are tons and tons of jack rabbits and cottontails...
after a good night of spotlighting we sometimes pick up the rabbits and set them up in a field to bait coyotes in with. most of the time we never just leave them anyway we throw them in the ranchers dump so that he can have a shot or two at coyotes that jump up when you get near..
 
We are invested with yotes and foxes which keep the numbers down. Can remember the day when they were by the hundreds, Love rabbit too, cottentails. Them ol jacks are like boot leather.
KEn
 
Regardless of legallity in your area, your comment doesn't do any of us any good. Hunters and shooters have enough of a fight on their hands without idiots like you advertising their disregard for the laws.
 
I have no problem with spotlighting, but to advertise that you dont care what the law says just throws another log on the fire for anti hunters and anti gun crowds.
 
Bones,if what you posted(don`t care if its illegal) is the way you feel, that puts you in the categoy of what is known as a slob hunter or poacher. Take your pick. Neither of which you should be proud to be:barf:. Hunting laws are in place to preserve animals and believe it or not pertain to you also. Don`t apologize to the hunters here for something you posted. Just hunt legal. It makes things better for us hunters that do care about the law. FYI it may be wise in the future for you to learn the laws where you hunt before doing something rather than after the fact. Hope you`re old and smart enough to learn the easy way(someone telling you) rather than the hard way.
 
If it's legal to shoot after dark where you are, you will still be liable for any damage caused to persons or property even if they are beyond your field of vision.
 
Fair chase?

Spotlighting animals to shoot them is unethical. It says a lot about you and what type hunter you are. Fair chase has no meaning to people like you. You kill because you can not because you should. You are the the type of hunter that makes me sick.
 
JUST the kind of guy I used to love to write up.
It was always fun to see the looks on their faces when they realized how much their "fun" cost them!!
 
graniteob, yo man were do you live? what is your property situation? Quiet a rash statement towards a lot of us here. Live with what you feel. I know what I do and what I will do. I am one of the most moral guys alive, but protect my own.
Ken
 
Hey guys, Just got back from visiting the local fish and game guy and he told me that it is legal as long as i have permission to be on that property, and have a valid hunting license(taken hunters education) but he told me that if i was on someone elses property or shot something on their property that it is a big no no...
But i feel better that i know now that i was legal.. And to me spot lighting is just as ethical and just as shooting them in broad day light at night you only have so far to see which gives them a chance to escape, we don't chase them down at all just take a shot or two then move on.
Bones
 
I have to look at the costs but found out a nuisance night light and gun permit is now available for florida land owners...
Brent
 
graniteob said:
Spotlighting animals to shoot them is unethical. It says a lot about you and what type hunter you are. Fair chase has no meaning to people like you. You kill because you can not because you should. You are the the type of hunter that makes me sick.
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Unethical? Unfair?

Where exactly is this code of fairness and ethics written down at?

Something is either legal or it's not, your personal code of ethics and fairness means nothing to me.

I've also heard people claim that shooting game with hi-powered rifles wasn't 'fair'. lol Who ever said it was supposed to be. I realize that anthropomorphism is all to common these days, but come on accept reality, when man takes the field with a weapon, with the intent of killing game, it is never going to be 'fair'.

I've spotlighted varmints, rabbits, etc all legally. It all depends on the laws where you live. Ideas of 'fairness' and 'ethics' are highly subjective and only come into play on a personal level.
 
Where exactly is this code of fairness and ethics written down at?
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The most widely accepted definition of "fair" chase was provided by the Boone and Crocket Club: “Fair chase is the ethical, sportsmanlike and lawful pursuit and taking of free ranging wild game animals in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper or unfair advantage over such animals.”

I've spotlighted varmints, rabbits, etc all legally.
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If you visit the current poll at http://www.huntfairchase.com, you'll see that 96% of the participants believe, "that hunting ethics go well beyond whether an act is legal or illegal."

If you don't believe that it's unethical to shoot an animal effectively rendered blind by a spotlight, then where do you draw the line? From there, isn't it only a small step to assume it would be okay to hunt from a helicopter equipped with FLIR for spotting and a ground light for shooting? How different is this from cruising around in a truck with a spot light to shoot rabbits?

"The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." ~Saxton Pope~
 
LNF, For game animals I agree to what you post of "fair chase" ethics... But when it comes to vermin up to and including large animals like hogs... I am after one thing and one thing only... A kill... If a landowner paid for the chopper time I would hunt hogs from the sky... The only difference in me doing it is the state and fed gov is using taxpayer bucks to do it.
I have ridden and driven both, in vehicles at night both with and without a gun on pasture land to locate and shoot or even run over hogs... While I prefer to run dogs I will trap, shoot or otherwise dispatch any and all hogs for a landowner. If they pay me to rid the place of pigs I will do even more...
Brent
 
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