ORIGINAL: quiksilver
Just seeing if we're willing to put our ethics for salewhen we have a dog in the hunt.
If you'd just randomly do a poll of whether an HNI member would ever hunt inside an enclosure, the results would be overwhelmingly negative. A huge majority would declare that they would "never" hunt under anything less than 100% fair-chase conditions.
But, when the tables are turned, and we have thealternatives of suffering a financial loss, versus doing something that we are normally"opposed to" (butprepaid)it's interesting to see how opinions change.
I voted "hunt anyway" too, so I'm just as bad as the next guy. Just proving a point, that's all.
It also depends on what you define as "enclosure". To me, 18,000 acres does not qualify as an "enclosure". I have a friend that has a 500 acre "enclosure" (that I define as a "pen") that "hunters" pay big bucks to kill all sorts of game out of. To me, there is a HUGE difference.
I still don't see where true "ethics" comes into play in this scenerio. Just because someone disagrees with "high fence" hunting (which I am part of that group), doesn't make it "unethical" to hunt in a pen. To me, it is just poor sportsmanship.