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Are Game Officials Entrapping Hunters with Decoys?
Recently many stories have been published about game officials using decoys to catch hunters in illegal acts. All of these stories seem to have one theme that hunters are constantly breaking hunting laws by shooting animals out of cars. Although all of these stories highlight the negative aspects of hunting it makes me wonder how many decoy traps result in nothing? With all of these increased occurrences of hunters shooting game decoys some people question game officers saying that the placement of the decoys is entrapment.
In the article above it shows that 8 out of the 29 cars that drove by the decoy attempted to hunt it with only 6 doing so illegally. This number seems very high and I am disappointed in the hunters of the area who hunted illegally. I find it amusing that the media seems to only publish negative stories surrounding decoy hunting. Don't get me wrong I feel that if you illegally hunt you deserve to be punished and I know of a few people who have been caught shooting decoys. When you break the law you need to be punished.
With more and more reports of people shooting decoys I think that more needs to be done to educate hunters and encourage them not to hunt illegally. As the technology used in the decoys increases decoys will look and act more realistic which will mostly likely cause more incidents. With all the negative press it seems that the only thing being accomplished is destroying the reputation of all the good hunters out there.
The placement of the decoys is seen to some hunters as being entrapment because they feel that the decoys are encouraging them to do something that they otherwise would not have done. Using the decoys as been reviewed by courts and they were deemed legal because they in no way encourage the hunter to fire shots. Just because you see an animal that you can hunt and it is easy to kill doesn't mean you have the right to hunt it. In my opinion all of the hunters that are looking to take these decoys while driving by are just looking for an easy kill and that takes away some of the fun in hunting.
All of these hunters seem to not support the Fair Chase which encourages hunters to be in the field with their rifle when the hunt. If you are hunting from inside your car I don't see how you are in the field? To me I don't see how you can consider it hunting if you are in a motorized vehicle chasing down an animal. Unless you are handicap and have limited mobility I think that you should be punished for hunting with a motor vehicle, and in most states you are.
What is you opinion on the use of decoys by wildlife officials? Is it entrapment or are these hunters giving hunting a bad name?
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