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by op00to 842 days ago
He’s a professional. He is expected to know and consistently obey the laws, no matter how loosely they are enforced.

Don’t shoot if you aren’t sure you’ll kill the animal. Get better at shooting if you miss so much that you need a drone.

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> Don’t shoot if you aren’t sure you’ll kill the animal.

Nobody can guarantee they will kill an animal with any given shot from a rifle or bow. Nobody. That you think this is a remotely reasonable position makes me wonder if you've ever hunted, or fired a weapon at a (potentially) moving target before.

The only justification for illegalizing spotlights for recovery that I've seen is that it stops poachers from claiming that's what they were doing. That's all well and good- the law must be pragmatic so what can you do? And if they caught the guy out in the woods doing this, of course they'd have to enforce it.

What's absurd is running a sting to catch a guy who is explicitly not poaching and thus is not the target of the legislation. The government should be in the business of preventing harm, not going out of their way to punish people for violating bureaucracy.

You sound like one of those guys who can’t figure out why he gets speeding tickets when everyone else gets a warning.
Never got a ticket. I obey the laws. :)