Huntin Question

[Junior Samples]

Now don't get me wrong and I am not right. And I have to use a scope for long distance. But has anyone ever heard of or use fair chase in hunting dear or other game? My dad always hunted that way and if the dear out smarted me, he won that day. We did a lot of still hunting and driving dear in Pa and always thank the animal for the food we were about to gobble up. Just my old dirty thirty and a handful of shells. Just asking.

 

[Junior Samples]

Wow. I didn't realize it is a dying skill.

 

[Redfin]

Now don't get me wrong and I am not right. And I have to use a scope for long distance. But has anyone ever heard of or use fair chase in hunting dear or other game? My dad always hunted that way and if the dear out smarted me, he won that day. We did a lot of still hunting and driving dear in Pa and always thank the animal for the food we were about to gobble up. Just my old dirty thirty and a handful of shells. Just asking.

What are you asking?

 

[Dub11]

I've hunted pheasants behind dogs but I'm pretty sure you cant hunt deer with dogs here in Kansas. If this what you are asking.

 

[Junior Samples]

My Question is has anyone ever heard of Fair Chase hunting. It is a stile of stocking a animal, with still hunting and more. Years ago that was all a person read about in wild game mags.

 

[huskihl]

Fair chase means no high fences. Being out in the wild rather than hunting a game ranch with a 10 foot high fence. Not really a style of hunting, more of a moral quality.

 

[Dub11]

I just read the definition and get what your saying now.


It just sounds like hunting to me.

 

[Junior Samples]

Do you know how many hunters leise a farm dump 200# of corn put up a tree stand and sit? Nothing wrong with it but it is a different style of hunting.

 

[Junior Samples]

I use to be involved in participating with scoring antlers with the Boone and Crockett. I have just noticed the definition has been revised since I read it years ago. It use to say hunting without electronic devices and other advantages. I also thought scopes where also unfair. Just sayin.

 

[Dub11]

Do you know how many hunters leise a farm dump 200# of corn put up a tree stand and sit? Nothing wrong with it but it is a different style of hunting.

Yeah my uncles neighbor built some stands and tried that.


Didnt work very well when my uncle put up his own feeder draw them away from the stands he built.

And my uncle doesn't hunt, he really doesn't like his neighbor aka Weasel.

 

[wcorey]

I look at it as sort of the difference between hunting versus just killing.

Not to say killing for, say, food purposes, is wrong of its self but I don’t always agree with the definition of what some call ‘hunting’.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

I use to be involved in participating with scoring antlers with the Boone and Crockett. I have just noticed the definition has been revised since I read it years ago. It use to say hunting without electronic devices and other advantages. I also thought scopes where also unfair. Just sayin.

Do you hunt with a bow?

 

[Junior Samples]

Do you hunt with a bow?

Oh yea. And bow hunting would be as Fair Chase as it could be. No range finders and wind calibration and ect. My point is that have many hunters ever heard of Fair Chase? Just my thinkin.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Oh yea. And bow hunting would be as Fair Chase as it could be. No range finders and wind calibration and ect. My point is that have many hunters ever heard of Fair Chase? Just my thinkin.

Recurve or compound?

 

[Junior Samples]

I started with recurve and moved up to compound. Why do you ask?

 

[srb08]

Oh yea. And bow hunting would be as Fair Chase as it could be. No range finders and wind calibration and ect. My point is that have many hunters ever heard of Fair Chase? Just my thinkin.

I have

 

[Stump Shot]

Have hunted many different ways, most were to follow local traditions and go with what works for the area. Most of my fair chase hunting was done in the Western states and Alaska. Very little is done in Northern Wisconsin as the woods are so thick with underbrush and whatnot that it's not always a practical practice. Traditionally deer hunting was done either by standing and hoping a deer would come by or driving, pushing the deer out to an open area where folks would be waiting for them. So I am not particularly opposed or in favor of any such methods, when you get down to it, unless the game starts shooting back, there's nothing fair about it, no matter how you go about it. There's always been and always will be the moral divide that separates those who hunt. Hunting would have a much brighter future if folks found more things to come together about. As long as you are following the rules/law that's about as fair as it's going to get, everyone is free to make it either easier or harder on themselves as they see fit.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

I started with recurve and moved up to compound. Why do you ask?

Was just curious. You thought scopes were "unfair". Figured you would have thought the same compounds, guess not.


Fair chase to me is not hunting wild game inside a 10 ft fence

 

[Junior Samples]

Have hunted many different ways, most were to follow local traditions and go with what works for the area. Most of my fair chase hunting was done in the Western states and Alaska. Very little is done in Northern Wisconsin as the woods are so thick with underbrush and whatnot that it's not always a practical practice. Traditionally deer hunting was done either by standing and hoping a deer would come by or driving, pushing the deer out to an open area where folks would be waiting for them. So I am not particularly opposed or in favor of any such methods, when you get down to it, unless the game starts shooting back, there's nothing fair about it, no matter how you go about it. There's always been and always will be the moral divide that separates those who hunt. Hunting would have a much brighter future if folks found more things to come together about. As long as you are following the rules/law that's about as fair as it's going to get, everyone is free to make it either easier or harder on themselves as they see fit.

I agree. But my question was based on how many men or women have ever heard of Fair chase. From what I ascertained was there were at least 40 persons read my question without replying until gave up. I assumed that no one have ever heard of fair chase. How one hunts is up to them. As I get older I sit more. I hunt for the meat. Heck those antlers don't even make good soup. There is no right or wrong way to hunt as long as its legal.

 

[Junior Samples]

Fair Chase at one time was a issue in hunting. I remember in the early 1990s in the central part of Pa, a group of men purchased 30 something acres of land and stocked it with 15 to 20 wild boar and few elk and a few rams so men or women could pay to come and shoot. Well you waited while the employees would circle the 30+ acres and drive wild boar for customers to shoot. That Wild Game Preserve did not last maybe 5 years. I was there filming my little hunting buddy. Pigs in a Pen. lol. I stress " Has anyone ever Heard Of Fair Chase?" Thats all I was asking.