Fair enough, that makes more sense and I have a similar attitude to the roar - I mostly avoid hunting public bush (especially popular areas) at that time, happy to leave it to trophy hunters for a...
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Fair enough, that makes more sense and I have a similar attitude to the roar - I mostly avoid hunting public bush (especially popular areas) at that time, happy to leave it to trophy hunters for a...
Someone who snap shoots at a moving bush isn't identifying their target at all, and isn't going to start taking more care just because there is suddenly another rule on top of the ones they already...
Are you suggesting countries with restrictive hunting rules and limits on what animals you can shoot at different times don't have accidental shootings? That deserves a tui sign!
Personally I have...
I don't think you're right about that, I remember at least one report where the shooter said how certain he was that it was a deer and that he (thought he) was looking at the antlers to confirm it...
Not really, no.
Education and training usually helps, creating more rules for people who aren't following the existing rules doesn't.
The idea could be useful but has its problems - not all hunters will use it (and certainly not other people like trampers), not all the units will be reliable all the time, but some hunters will...
Agreed about the impracticality of enforcing a rule like that.
But teaching more hunters to slow down and identify the age and sex as well as the species of an animal before firing may help...