Thread: Thermal Optics under scrutiny?

Yeah thats what I wish for.

The Wapiti herd is an example of that Where what you state is close too the case. The Tahr herd is one where the opposite is currently happening. The difference with the wapiti, is a sustained and well built set of ethics that are largely adhered too. All most too the point of being regulation.

Heres an example, a personnel one. I managed a herd of fallow on my property up north. Initially it was low quality as far as antler form etc. But about 10 years ago 4 or 5 bucks from I presume, a nearby game park, escaped and set up on the property. I immediately set about shooting every low quality buck I could find, while putting a ban on shooting young bucks and good heads. Another couple of properties did the same.
But the bucks didnt stay all year on these places, and in summer they would head out too other nearby properties, where the hunters targeted them at night with thermal because the velvet glowed and you cant eat antler.

So in this thread we have seen, "ethics is personal". "I'll do what suits me".

So how do we get too the point you make below without a general accepted ethic?

[QUOTE]We the hunters just need to make good and appropriate decisions when we take full advantage of advances in technology, and thus mitigate the "commons effect"./QUOTE]


Dont get me wrong, Right now the tragedy might well be not shooting enough females.