RE: I think it's time to stop the "fair chase" charade
When you lumb every ingredient in your thread Atlas, "fair chase" certainly is a coined phrase at that point. I don't use all the above but I do certainly use several tactics. The deer I hunt can be miles and miles away regardless of the equipment (bow) I choose to take to the woods. They free wonder and could be miles away regardless that I have caught them on game camera from time to time. They could wonder and be miles away regardless that I have a food plot beside the other 1000 acres of corn and soybean and acorns. They could wonder and be miles away regardless the fact that I have a rangefinder around my neck more to make a clean harvest and not wound an animal, to reassure my yardage estimations.....
What is "fair chase"...hell, I don't even know, I'd imagine that is a coined phrase by someone in the industry and it caught on to disconnect fences from your hunting style....
If it's outside a fence it's "fair chase"...or is it...I guess that depends on the eye of the beholder....I'd imagine there is a traditionalist out there that makes thier own bow, string, arrows, feathers, broadheads, camo, scouts, etc...and only takes an animal from 10 yards and in...that person I'd bet Atlas would call your hunting unfair chase....the line in the sand is a blurry one...I can't even see it, sometimes I think I've found the line and I lose it...it's blurry.