Remember that 'fair chase' is absolutely arbitrarily defined.
Yep, and that definition can and does change over the years. Growing up as a kid, baiting/salt licks for deer were poacher's tools and against the law here. Now until CWD came around it became the norm and many new hunters have never hunted without it. With the banning of baiting in CWD counties many hunters are now lost. Growing up, the herd numbers were never what they are now either, so rules were stricter in order to keep opportunities open to more hunters. More hunters, more license fees. Now adays, deer in Ag areas have become a nuisance animal and folks can't/won't shoot enough of them. Lots of opportunities for those with access, so lots of tags and a loosening of regs on how one can legally take them.
I’ll use trail cameras til the day I die.
...and as long as it is legal, I for one, support your right to.
Yeah, but I used the term “very many” because I have used cameras to pattern a few deer and I don’t have any issue with people using trail cameras to kill game. Some people have plenty of time to scout and plan hunts. Some folks only have a couple of weekends a year to devote to hunting and scouting. We are the most intelligent beings on earth. There is no such thing as fair chase. Use the tools available to you.
....again, it comes down to local ethics(dictated by the majority of area hunters for the most part), and availability of game. Those folks with little or no time to scout have always been around. Kinda why they were known as "weekend warriors". Their success is more based on luck and chance. Always has been, always will be. Like anything else in life, if you want to be successful, you have to put in your time. I remeber when the latest technology for scouting was a stop watch attached to a string you strung across a game trail. You didn't know what tripped the string, but you did kinda know when. You still had to go out and physically monitor/reset it. You figured out which direction the animal(or human) was walking by which way the string was laying. Similar to reading broken brush/grass. There is technology out there to shoot deer from planes/helicopters. Should we use them too since we are so intelligent? How about remote fired guns using those cellular trail cams as aiming tools? That technology is there too. Come does to ethics and what one considered "sporting". My grandpa taught me you never shot a duck on the water, nor did you ever ground swat a grouse/pheasant or quail. That was back in the day when we hunted more to eat than for sport. Still go by his philosophy today. What others do, I care less, as long as it's within the law.
....as I said before, I have no dog in this fight. Never have hunted Arizona, and odds are, I probably never will. If Wisco goes that way, I will respect the law and abide by it, even tho, like with the use of cell phones, enforcement is almost impossible. But that's what regs are generally aimed at. The majority of law abiding folks. The definition of wthics we give to students in our Hunter Safety classes is, "Doing the right thing, when no one else is around".
If you don’t want to use them, don’t, but for a group of people whom purport to support personal liberties, some of y’all sure take a hard anti-trail camera stance against your fellow hunters.
I see no "hard" stance taken by anyone here, just a slight difference of ethics. Your stance too, could be taken as "hard" against your fellow hunters. What I have seen by most here, is respect given to those who have a slight difference of opinion/ethics. What I don't see for the most part, and hope to never see, is the condoning of breaking the law.
