RE: "As Long as It's Legal"....Gimme a Break
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When debating various topics here such as; Baiting vs. Not Baiting, Bowhunting vs. Gun Hunting, QDM vs. Anti-QDM, and so on and so forth, I constantly read replies stating, "as long as it's legal." What's up with that? Since when did people become so passive soas to just leave it all up to the Government as to what form or shape their hunting world takes. It's a shame that hunters can't be disciplined and educated enough to understand all of the aspects and the huge amount of responsibility involved with deer hunting without having to pass gobs of legislation to MAKE them understand. If you shoot all of the 6 month and 1.5 year old bucks you will never see a large buck out of your treestand unless you have a portable TV and are watching TNN Outdoors from your stand. Nevertheless, the only way the situation can be improved is by passing laws to make it illegal to shoot immature bucks as is being done in many states.
High-powered rifles are legal in some states but are involved in more incidents of poaching as well as hunting accidents and fatalities than any other hunting weapon, not to mention the lack of challenge that they present. So what has to happen...many states have gone to muzzleloader or shotgun only and have had to make high-powered rifles "illegal" to hunt with.
CWD is spreading rampant throughout the country and it has been proven that throwing out bait piles to feed the deer concentrates too many into one area accelerating the spread of CWD as well as many other diseases. So finally, states must pass legislation to make it "illegal" to bait deer. But what is amusing to me is that Joe Hunter is in a state where baiting is still legal although he is surrounded by states where CWD is spreading and baiting has become "illegal" but since he has no mind or sense of his own, continues to bait because he lives by the philosophy of, "as long as it's legal."
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