IMO apples and oranges.

To me shining is used for nothing but entertainment. I believe it does no good in scouting, except it being the lazy and cheap way to take stock of deer in your area.

There is a huge problem with poaching. What is their main method? Shining. Its that simple. I agree, but to an extent.

OKAY, let's adjust our focus here. If you positon a game camera on a deer trail to acquire some photos of the deer in your area, are you not indeed now "shining" or"poaching"?

Come clean here, you can not have it one way or the other!

If you use fine optics to locate the entrance to a bedding area on a 200 yard bean field, are you not poaching? NO YOU Are using all available resources to scout the deer in youarea.

Wanna bet with me, I have watched many videos that upon the first few days in camp have "glassed" their deer of the prey doing the exact same ritual. That is how they determine where they set their locations.

Bringit on...

-Steve