tech committee

JPickett · Monday at 4:34 PM

going to try and get on this so i can push for flintlock, smooth bore,no peep, lead ball only in muzzleloader seasons just for @elkassassin

F&G seeking members for working group to assess perspectives on ‘fair' technology in big game hunting

Idaho Fish and Game is seeking members for a new Hunting and Advanced Technology (HAT) working group that will assess public perspectives on what technology is—or is not—considered “fair chase” in the pursuit of game. The committee will develop recommendations to the Fish and Game Commission on...

idfg.idaho.gov

Blindnonresident · Tuesday at 8:36 AM

Lobbying interests write the laws.

Follow the path of least resistance to the most money.

mtnrunner260 · Tuesday at 3:40 PM

They should add
Agency Seeks Solutions
To the working group name.

BPKHunter · Wednesday at 12:48 PM

Poll:

Who thinks that too many people shoot too far and don't have the required skills?

Who has seen other hunters take obviously loong shots and miss or make poor hits(worse)?

I'm not advocating a position for/against any specific restrictions, but am simply asking, if there is a problem that is worthy of the conversation...

lostinOregon · Wednesday at 1:19 PM

JPickett said:
going to try and get on this so i can push for flintlock, smooth bore,no peep, lead ball only in muzzleloader seasons just for @elkassassin

F&G seeking members for working group to assess perspectives on ‘fair' technology in big game hunting

Idaho Fish and Game is seeking members for a new Hunting and Advanced Technology (HAT) working group that will assess public perspectives on what technology is—or is not—considered “fair chase” in the pursuit of game. The committee will develop recommendations to the Fish and Game Commission on...

idfg.idaho.gov

Sure, make sure you ride a horse out there, no vehicles allowed. If you go primitive, it’s 100 percent

TBIRRER · Wednesday at 1:40 PM

BPKHunter said:
Poll:

Who thinks that too many people shoot too far and don't have the required skills?

Who has seen other hunters take obviously loong shots and miss or make poor hits(worse)?

I'm not advocating a position for/against any specific restrictions, but am simply asking, if there is a problem that is worthy of the conversation...

2013
While I was on a Dall sheep hunt I witnessed another outfitter come into the outfitter’s territory that I was working for,

6 hunters proceeded to empty their rifles into the band of rams that we had a client on.

They shot from 1200yds+
Around 35-40rds fired by the time they were all done.

They managed to cripple 2 rams good enough to close the distance and dispatch them.

They also wounded 2 that made it over the ridge and disappeared.
Needless to say the state trooper came out and fines were written.
(It was pretty sickening to see)

Blindnonresident · Wednesday at 2:36 PM

Shot length restrictions would need to be in place for Rifle, Muzzy, and Archery.

Idiots hunt all 3.

JPickett · Wednesday at 6:04 PM

lostinOregon said:
Sure, make sure you ride a horse out there, no vehicles allowed. If you go primitive, it’s 100 percent

That’s a good suggestion

Blindnonresident · Wednesday at 10:47 PM

Buffalo Briefs?

JPickett · Thursday at 7:40 AM

naked and afraid

LIK2HNT · Thursday at 7:41 AM

Be interesting how this all pans out.

HntHrdr · Thursday at 8:09 AM

Zero skin in Idaho’s game, I hunt Co which makes you use, loose powder, open sights, and no sabots, which guys can still stretch shots out to 300-400 yards with the right peep sight. So even going primitive, guys will still stretch it, unless you do notch and blade and side locks only people will always try to push the limits. Even then I bet guys will be throwing lead balls way past where they should

Blindnonresident · Thursday at 10:39 AM

Lead balls and no briefs could be problematic.

Mallardsx2 · Thursday at 12:58 PM

I'm going to BuzzH this topic and bow out...

Bring on the flintlocks, open sights and roundballs I say.

andrew12gauge · Thursday at 2:28 PM

Mallardsx2 said:
I'm going to BuzzH this topic and bow out...

Bring on the flintlocks, open sights and roundballs I say.
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Not even close to how buzzH would do it. You didn’t tell anyone how superior you are intellectually or how much better your life is.

andrew12gauge · Thursday at 2:29 PM

I think our muzzleloader rules are just about right as they are. I think the elephant in the room is infrared technology. Luepold really upping their game with an infrared spotting scope

TBIRRER · Thursday at 5:09 PM

andrew12gauge said:
I think our muzzleloader rules are just about right as they are. I think the elephant in the room is infrared technology. Luepold really upping their game with an infrared spotting scope

Interesting. I didn’t know that.
Are you referring to the LTO Tracker?
Or a actual spotting scope that has more than 6x?

EVILNR2.0 · Thursday at 7:02 PM

I'm cool with sidelocks and roundballs.

andrew12gauge · 2024-08-16T13:07:29-0600

TBIRRER said:
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
Are you referring to the LTO Tracker?
Or an actual spotting scope that has more than 6x?

Yes the LTO tracker, I mean being able to go out an hr before light and glass up every animal in a basin based on its heat signature seems like tech that definitely goes beyond fair chase. I know they say it’s for locating wounded game, but all of their ads show a live elk heat signature in the images. Tell me to use it to glass animals based on heat signatures without telling me to glass animals based on heat signature