ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
Okay A'man....the term "fair chase" is stupid...it's a coined phrase that people seem to over use...however...what is it that you deem "fair chase"?
I don't even know if it fits hunting at all...............does it???
Why can't we just call it hunting??
I have a hard time posting a line of shooters at a bottleneck of the woods and then walking through with 20 other guys to cover every square inch of real estate and spook up every critter in sight and send them to the gauntlet where the only chance of survival is minimal at best.............and then telling someone it was a "fair chase" hunt because there was no fence. (DISCLAIMER: I just used a drive as one example. I could have used 20 other situations that would have fit just as nice. I gun hunt, always have and always will........NO OFFENSE meant to anyone.......just an example.......create your own if you wish)
Actually I misspoke...let's not use the term "fair chase" because that is what we are debating is stupid...there's no such thing as "fair chase" unless we go out there naked and take an old wily buck down bare handed....
Pretty much...........that is why I think the term is so dumb and it sounds so silly when I hear hunters preaching it.
let's just keep things legal..as sportsmen and women, we shouldn't do less.
AMEN.