September 2005, American Hunter Magazine, published by NRA. Page 30, Article titled "Cam Lessons".
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A few years ago, Mark Drury got a wild hair to get into game surveillance. He bought a truckload of trail cams, scattered them across his Midwestern hunting spots and snapped some 4,500 photos of whitetails each season (italics added). The co-host of the popular Drury Outdoor videos has now become somewhat of a voyeur; he switched to Mini Dv 'Wildlfe Eye" units to get live, streaming footage of deer day and night in their feeding areas and bedrooms. By cross referencing those prints and loops of video with aerial maps and the actual glassing of bucks, Drury has pinned down the movements of some monsters and killed them...One time an 11-pointer popped up two days on two different cams in late November. Drury had never seen the gray-faced, belly sagging giant before, and he'd scouted and hunted that farm for years. But those two photos were enough. He moved in one day in December and smoked the 6 1/2 year old deer with a muzzleloader.....
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This is disgusting. What's next, tagging the deer with radio collars, following them by sattelite, shooting them with remote controlled guns mounted in the trees and calling it a clever hunting technique? :barf:
Worse yet, the NRA prints this garbage as not only acceptable but in fact they write as though this is a great idea and worthy of emulation. :barf: What are they thinking? They are bragging on yet another another slob hunter that doesn't really want to hunt, he just wants to score points on the antler scale regardless of tradition or hunting ethics! This isn't remotely (pun intended) fair chase hunting.
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Boone and Crockett definition of fair chase hunting: FAIR CHASE, as defined by the Boone and Crockett Club, is the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild, native North American big game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper advantage over such animals. http://www.boone-crockett.org/huntin...=huntingEthics
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Doesn't the NRA support fair chase hunting?
OBVIOUSLY NOT!