Atlasman,
You COULD argue that "fair" is only when we hunt bare handed and naked. This way the deer would be as they are in nature and we would be as we were therby givingneither a technological advantage.

Each hunter applies the term "fair" differently. It may not mean the same from one hunter to the other. As far as how a hunter applies it and as long as it's within the laws set up within that state that is certainly up to each individual hunter to decide what they consider fair.

There is no perfect answer to what is "fair chase" because it is not a term that has a technical definition in the hunting world. It is a term however used by hunters to describe a particular type of hunt that in their opinion is fair. And that's all it is. An opinion