Thread: Got too be philosophical!

Originally Posted by whanahuia

Yeah I can understand that. I will have a thermal coming as soon as Ken has the one I want back in stock. But I won't use it on public land or for my recreational hunting. For me, I like that the animal has at least its natural abilities as advantage, or at least as an evener over me, and that my achievement is using my brain and effort to work them out.

It's a long standing thing with me. I was quite happy to use a spotlight for pest control, But never for my personal, hunting.

Yes thats a considered view, horses for courses. Consistent with this, and as an example from me, thermals have helped deliver venny for 1,500 meals to the needy in the last 12 months. And remembering too that it's the deers' respected natural abilities of evasion and being nocturnal that escalates them very quickly from resource to pest. Then you gotta use tools and not principles.

The thing that has most amazed me from observing them at night is where they appear from and how active they are. During day, Ive been surprised by how many deer stay still in the bush when they detect us and don't move away, and we simply walk past them.