Thread: Spot lighting deer

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Great way to put some meat in the freezer,but its not hunting its shooting.

I have no problem with it done properly on private property, you could argue its safer than shooting a deer in the bush in daylight.

One thing that irks me is round here the amount of people that say "went hunting last night got 3" when clearly they were not hunting.

Thats just bollocks..

You are quite entitled to attach more value to one form of hunting over another, but don't start redefining the english language to sort your personal standards..

Hunting is the looking for and the pursuit of game animals... got nothing to do with the methodology employed..

You can do that without a gun, with, with a bow, with a camera, with a spotlight in a truck or not...

You could say that spotlighting is not ethical hunting in your opinion, or is lazy hunting, or it might be illegal hunting - but its still hunting..

Originally Posted by Sidney

Thats just bollocks..

You are quite entitled to attach more value to one form of hunting over another, but don't start redefining the english language to sort your personal standards..

Hunting is the looking for and the pursuit of game animals... got nothing to do with the methodology employed..

You can do that without a gun, with, with a bow, with a camera, with a spotlight in a truck or not...

You could say that spotlighting is not ethical hunting in your opinion, or is lazy hunting, or it might be illegal hunting - but its still hunting..

Does the English language "define" spotlighting as hunting? If so I will retract my statement. I never said its not ethical. Im not taking any moral high ground here.I have shot many many deer in the lamp and still do shoot the odd one, And although its fun and puts meat in the freezer to me its not hunting

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Does the English language "define" spotlighting as hunting? If so I will retract my statement. I never said its not ethical. Im not taking any moral high ground here.I have shot many many deer in the lamp and still do shoot the odd one, And although its fun and puts meat in the freezer to me its not hunting

Yes it does... every time you turn a spotlight on you are looking for something... everytime you move while looking for something you are in pursuit of it..

So tell me how can you use a spotlight without hunting?

Rich007 Lit plenty of Sambar, once they've seen a few lights they get pretty smart - more cunning than most light shy deer. Had one duck the light in long grass on Timmay and I one night!

Timmay whenever bro, I'm always keen PM on its way

Originally Posted by Sidney

Yes it does... every time you turn a spotlight on you are looking for something... everytime you move while looking for something you are in pursuit of it..

So tell me how can you use a spotlight without hunting?

Well if thats oxfords definition then I apolagize profusely for not reading a dictionary.