ORIGINAL: Hokieman
A turkey hunter hears a gobble on the next adjoining property and pursues it and sets up between the hunter and the gobbler.
If he crosses the property line that's a crime. If he goes to the edge and calls it in it's not a crime.
A hunter spys a monster buck while driving down the road before bow season and sneaks in on someone elses property and hangs a stand and hunts.
Another crime.
A group of deer hound hunters leases 20acres and turns their dogs out to hunt and crosses your property in pursuit of game.
Crosses with guns or chasing the dogs? 1 is legal the other is unethical as 20 acres isn't enough to hunt with hounds. But that wasn't the intent when they hunted the place.
All is unethical hunting, Should it be banned? or restricted?
Laws are created in an attempt to legislate ethics. They can't cover it all and some holes are there. It's usually assumed some minimum level of ethics exists. But like many other things today a law has to be created for every loophole one can find to circumvent ethics. The demographics have changed and the level of ethics in deer hound hunters has gone down. All you're seeing is the reaction to what the deer hound hunters are doing. You know it's coming and you know it's going to happen eventually. Again SAC should have fixed it when they had the chance.