Hunts you consider unethical and why?

[Bullshot]

baiting / salt blocks makes the list for me though I will make an exception for black bears ever since two separate boars almost considered me bait.

 

[Gellar]

I would never do some of the hunts listed but I am big on not judging others if it’s not affecting me and it’s legal. So, quite frankly I could care less if someone wants to hunt high fence deer as long as it’s not affecting me even though I will never do it.

 

[LuketheDog]

High fence hunting is not hard and basically just shooting livestock, but definitely not unethical, you could walk for days inside some of those places and never bump into the fence though. Besides, you gotta do something in Texas besides watch the Cowboys...

 

[Ridgerunner6901]

Got a limit yet?

 

[GlockZ]

Ethics is a personal thing, some don't mind harvesting animals for just the hide, some don't like deer drives, some like harvesting an animal at 1000 yards or better. To each his own, because in the end you have to make peace with yourself. For myself I feel if any hunter takes a shot, that they are have not prepared for and wound and have the animal needlessly suffer, ( i.e., have only practiced shooting a rifle at 200 yards and then decide to take a 500 yard shot on a game animal resulting in a wounded game animal), to me this is probably the most egregious.

 

[Pucky Freak]

I voted for the 1st 5, but that’s just me personally not wanting to do those things - don’t necessarily object to them being done by others in some circumstances.

Appreciate the StaySharp chuckle

 

[Txbluelacy]

High fence hunting is not hard and basically just shooting livestock, but definitely not unethical, you could walk for days inside some of those places and never bump into the fence. Besides, you gotta do something in Texas besides watch the Cowboys...

The truth of this statement is what brought me to this website. I nearly quit hunting because in Texas, it’s either big money for a lease with big money lease problems, high fence, or public land with every yahoo and knucklehead you can imagine. Or, become a landowner, which is even bigger money.

 

[tillicant]

High fence is probably my first check on the pole, long range is just because I don't have the ability to shoot at that distance regularly in se WI, so wouldn't take the shot.
Wife & I eat mainly Venison and definitely would not hunt what I couldn't take home.

 

[Dougfirtree]

Other: Not into the deer drive thing. Just doesnt jive with me. Pretty common though. Big family camps, buncha people stomping through the woods purposefully spooking every critter there, getting them to run up into a gauntlet of shooters. No thanks. Just doesnt pass the smell test to me i guess. To me, doing your best NOT to spook animals is really the biggest part of hunting whether youre spot and stalk, calling, sitting in a treestand etc. Of course our dfw recommends drives for hunting whitetail.

I have some issues with drives as well, but they're very situational. I will sometimes do little 2 or 3 person pushes, where someone strategically lets their scent go through an area to get deer moving towards standers. I have no problem with that. And, in the big, big woods, I don't have a problem with larger drives. What does bother me is large drives on smaller properties. In the Champlain valley, public land parcels are smaller and when one family drives them with 10 or 11 hunters, every weekend, it only serves to ruin the hunting for everyone else, on those properties.

 

[shrapnel]

As many or few that would be “unethical”, I find it hard to condemn any on the list as it becomes a point of contention among those of us engaged in hunting. The demise of our choice in hunting is brought about from within and embraced by those without.

It doesn’t take much research to find that division already exists on this site and I don’t see how it is healthy for the future of hunting.

 

[WestKyHunt]

I do not hunt with people that waterfowl hunt only for sport, throwing all the birds they kill in a ditch/dumpster.
Very hard to hold my tongue around people like that.
Go shoot trap or skeet if you just want to shoot flying objects

 

[manitou1]

I dislike wild hogs as much as the next guy but dang, hunting them down from a helicoptor just doesn't sit right with me. Neither does hunting them with dogs, having a pack of dogs ripping at them while you go in and stab them to death. Kind of blood thirsty and brutal display for the antis in my book... or the undecideds.
Drives are another peeve of mine.

 

[Brandon270]

The long range one is my #1. I get it that there are guys out there that practice at that distance everyday and they have all the technology to get the perfect ballistics but I just feel like there is just too many variables that are out of your control. A sudden wind change or different wind at distance, a sudden movement by the animal etc. I understand things can happen at any distance but the probability of something going wrong drastically goes up when you are shooting that far.

The second I'll add is hunting over bait. I understand that it's used in places with higher populations of animals but it just doesn't really feel like hunting to me. I won't die on that hill but it personally doesn't feel real ethical as a hunting tactic.

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Dakotakid]

Do or don’t it is a personal choice. Righteousness is what PETA brings. Don’t be PETA.

 

[Ben Lamb]

No baiting for me (for anything) and no wanton waste of native game. Hogs are a different story. Gator hunting has no appeal for me, but that's not really an ethical issue. I just don't appreciate being in a swamp with 15 foot death lizards all around me. Grizzly bears don't give me the heebie-jeebies like gators do.

If I bought a Gov's tag/conservation tag then it wouldn't be a mossback hunt, but more like what the HT crowd did with a member's goat tag. Just guys having fun in a fair chase method.

Driven hunt for boar in Europe would be a blast though. Same with pheasant drives in England. Not so sure about deer in SE America though.

 

[noharleyyet]

Hogs are a different story.

Driven hunt for boar in Europe would be a blast though.

 

[Ben Lamb]

That guy can date my sister.

 

[noharleyyet]

That guy can date my sister.

That rifle set up....

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

I dislike wild hogs as much as the next guy but dang, hunting them down from a helicoptor just doesn't sit right with me. Neither does hunting them with dogs, having a pack of dogs ripping at them while you go in and stab them to death. Kind of blood thirsty and brutal display for the antis in my book... or the undecideds.
Drives are another peeve of mine.

I don't care if you use Na-pom. heat seeking missles from fighter jets. Hogs should not be where they are and deserve no quarter! The Antis have enough stockyard video to yell about now and have no clue what a Boar can do! John