So I heard this debate recently and thought it would be good for the site. Public lands are open to all hunters we can all agree on that. But some seasons overlap. So the question I have for you is during deer season does someone have in your opinion the right to be out blasting rabbits with his 12ga? If not by what grounds do you base your opinion because technically according the law he has the same right as you to be on that public land and his game is in season to.
Now just so I am clear I would never hunt rabbit in an area where deer are being hunted. I am overly cautious when I hunt and fish I am known to drive a few more miles if I see a car parked at the trailhead I want to hunt. I never crowd when I fish and I keep as safe of a distance as possible when I bird hunt. I consider deer a way bigger trophy then rabbit and I will never go out shooting anything in the hills during deer season. I would think this was common knowledge but that is just my opinion not the law. I am not a confrontational person and nothing gets me more angry then when someone crowds me on a dove hunt after I have been saving a spot for hours or when I catch fish and people start to work into my area. There are unwritten laws in hunting but that is all they are. I never really put much thought to it until I heard this debate. Where do you stand and who are we to stop some guy from taking his kid out to get some cottontail?
Now just so I am clear I would never hunt rabbit in an area where deer are being hunted. I am overly cautious when I hunt and fish I am known to drive a few more miles if I see a car parked at the trailhead I want to hunt. I never crowd when I fish and I keep as safe of a distance as possible when I bird hunt. I consider deer a way bigger trophy then rabbit and I will never go out shooting anything in the hills during deer season. I would think this was common knowledge but that is just my opinion not the law. I am not a confrontational person and nothing gets me more angry then when someone crowds me on a dove hunt after I have been saving a spot for hours or when I catch fish and people start to work into my area. There are unwritten laws in hunting but that is all they are. I never really put much thought to it until I heard this debate. Where do you stand and who are we to stop some guy from taking his kid out to get some cottontail?