RE: does your state require you to prove you can shoot
Didn't think it was too hard to understand. If somebody breaks the law, and other hunters spot them, they should turn them in.
If somebody is being unethical, yet legal, then there isn't too much we can do about it. We can sit around and complain to the wardens, to the pro shops, to fish and game, and to everybody that somebody stalked your caribou, or you can accept the fact that it is a possibility out there, and their are people discurteous enough to do it.
What I'm hearing from the folks that think new regulations should be made is that illegal acts are happening all the time up there. If they are and the wardens are not catching them, then we need to do what we can to let them know we aren't going to put up with it anymore.
If you don't like the lack of ethics that is sometimes seen up there, I guess that's tough. Not much we can do about somebody running after your caribou and flinging an arrow at 60 yards at it. The regulations state clearly that that is a legal means of hunting.
I don't think there is a real definition on slob hunters. Be it poachers, 80 yard shooters, people that stalk animals that are already being stalked and so on, I guess you can call them what you want. I'm focused on illegal activity.