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Catch and Release Hunting?
Legal issues aside, would you be willing to practice "catch and release" hunting. For example, if your state allowed you to hunt deer with a tranquilizer gun, which immobilized the animal long enough for a photo-op, and you would then simply make sure that the deer recovered and climb back into the stand.
If you took a deer that you wanted to take home, you could then cleanly dispatch the aenesthetized deer, while he was "sleeping." Any thoughts? I was just kicking around some ideas after reading the "drugged deer" thread on the bowhunting board. I think I'd support that type of hunting. It gives hunters a chance to "shoot" more deer, without necessarily removing them from the population. Obviously, if you took enough photographs and measurements, a reproduced set of antlers could be made for a mount. Just a novel idea I had, and I thought I'd pass it along for some input. |
RE: Catch and Release Hunting?
never really thought about it in those terms before... i guess to me if i do not want to kill that animal that is when i shoot it with a cammera..... as for shooting an animal with a trank........ most hunters are not vet's so how would it be possible to tell if the deer you just loaded up with dope is stable?
what you have suggested is not a bad idea per say.......in my opinion though it just would not be practical..........hence the use of a cammera.......just my 2 cent's |
RE: Catch and Release Hunting?
A couple years back, a Polar bear wandered into the town of Sept Iles,
Quebec. That bear had a big X in orange paint written on his side by a conservation officer. That meant the bear had already been shot with a tranquilizer once before. The bear had to be destroyed. Once a bears been under anesthesia, being shot a second time will kill it. I don't know if this applies to deer aswell. Is there a vet online? Interesting question though. Quebec sells catch and release permits for fishing, but you fish with hooks. I think the government would have a hard time handing out tranquilizers to any hunter who asks! |
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There is a place like that in the midwest for elk and deer. Dont remember where ,but seen the add 2 years ago
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That's for the WildlifeBo., not hunters!
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RE: Catch and Release Hunting?
If you are not going to EAT it or give it to some one that will DONT KILL IT. Take a pic and gess the score.Any thing else would be crule and roung.
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A photo safari is also catch and release , and it won't taint the meat .
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RE: Catch and Release Hunting?
immobilized the animal long enough for a photo-op, and you would then simply make sure that the deer recovered and climb back into the stand. btw this is how i like my season to work bow hunting, i will shoot the first thing i see, by this time of year i am running low on deer meat, we use it in place of ground beef 75-90% of the time, i will try to kill 3-5 does with my bow, since our buck/doe ratio is so out of wack, if a nice buck comes by more the better, at the start of m/l'er season if i have had a dry bow season i'll go for the first deer i see most times, if its a buck more the better, rifle season, i hunt so many different pieces of property some hold some good deer 100+", others just hold little basket rack 6 pointer and the like, i like to kill a buck, and i will take a small buck or whatever, when i've done all these things i will only hunt (if i have not killed something bigger in the other hunts)for a "trophy" and i don't need to see him on the ground to know he is a "trophy". i hold out for 125-130+" deer for this,an average season for me is 5-7 deer i have killed as few as 2, and as many as a bunch[:-], all legal btw. but putting them to sleep for a camera op does not appeal to me. |
RE: Catch and Release Hunting?
ORIGINAL: m.t.hands immobilized the animal long enough for a photo-op, and you would then simply make sure that the deer recovered and climb back into the stand. btw this is how i like my season to work bow hunting, i will shoot the first thing i see, by this time of year i am running low on deer meat, we use it in place of ground beef 75-90% of the time, i will try to kill 3-5 does with my bow, since our buck/doe ratio is so out of wack, if a nice buck comes by more the better, at the start of m/l'er season if i have had a dry bow season i'll go for the first deer i see most times, if its a buck more the better, rifle season, i hunt so many different pieces of property some hold some good deer 100+", others just hold little basket rack 6 pointer and the like, i like to kill a buck, and i will take a small buck or whatever, when i've done all these things i will only hunt (if i have not killed something bigger in the other hunts)for a "trophy" and i don't need to see him on the ground to know he is a "trophy". i hold out for 125-130+" deer for this,an average season for me is 5-7 deer i have killed as few as 2, and as many as a bunch[:-], all legal btw. but putting them to sleep for a camera op does not appeal to me.  |
RE: Catch and Release Hunting?
I would not go for it. It would seem like a waste of time to go out and drug an animal for my amusement. I know some bear hunters practice it, they will tree a bear with the dogs and then let it go.
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