Thread: Illegal hunting..does it bother you?

Regarding thermals and night visions, there are two types: the monocular (or binoculars) type for just scanning and detecting and the scope ( or scope adaptors) for Shooting as well. I can clearly see how the scope version could be possibly a higher risk of shooting somebody( I have played a bit with the thermals of friends and I have seen their advantages and their limits), if used as the only mean of detection as well, and lacking the opportunity of properly identifying their target.
I have no problem if people were using thermal monoculars responsibly to detect their deer during daylight and then carry on doing their normal stalking. Same if used by Bowhunters in that way . Yes it gives them an edge over the guy who don't use them but so is a dog .
And I am not complaining about people using indicating dogs.

I can understand the frustration of some so see their favorite area being cleaned up by poachers or selfish hunters not following the rules on general public. I have a similar frustration when I meet hunters during the roar , who shoot deer after deer in a valley, and let the small trophies and the meat rot ( if they even bother to cut the back steaks)in place because they have not shot yet that 12 or 14 pointers , or they want to brag about how many stags they "smashed" during their hunting week.

But from what I understand, we have a lot of deer out there at the moment and not enough hunters spending enough time out there to knock the numbers down.
We all know how it's ending : 1080 of our favourite spots on regular basis.
How many of you report to doc the number of deer they harvested on their quarterly permit?
How many people out there go and hunt with out a doc permit?

I think at this stage we need to reduce the deer population in some areas seriously if we don't want doc to do it for us.
And as I said somewhere else, I would not be against some new type of hunting or culling permit allowing people to legally spotlight certain blocks to reduce the numbers.

Talking about spotlighting, I wonder if doc over the years have not closed their eyes on the subject as they wanted deer number reduced anyway one way or another . And their was a big wake up when that young lady got shot in the head a few years back while brushing her teeth which. Changed their attitude on the matter.