Thread: Spotlighting on DOC Land

Jeez guys, can we all pls have a collective untangling of the panties ? Nowhere in my posts did I refer to all spotlighters as drunken hooligans.

Mucko, TeRei etc, I did not compare 2shot to Mears, merely mentioned Mears as an example of spotlighting on DOC land gone wrong...

Personally I can't understand all the venom against Mears, yup he did something incredibly stupid, but if you look at the footage of him during his trail, he looked shattered. He immediately confessed, took his punishment, and will live with the consequences for the rest of his life. Compared to Dummer, at least he seems to have acted with a bit of backbone after the event.

Regarding the spotlighting, I've done it, shooting hares on a farm. Personally, I will only ever consider doing it on land that I am very familiar with, and only for ground based prey, where you have a reasonable chance of working out your firing zone. Shooting into the air, at possums in trees, is something I consider unsafe, unless you use a shotgun. If any of the spotlighters want to try to convince me that shooting a 22 into trees at night is a safe practice, I'm all ears.

There are lots of people on DOC land who are not hunters, we all share the same space. A bit of respect for their views goes a long way...

Hopefully this clears up some of the confusion.