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Delaware public land trail camera ban

Mitchellfarmer1982 said:
I think the ban would be pointless in Arkansas bc so few laws regarding leaving items are enforced currently. I do not believe they help as much as people are saying. If anything I think it hurts more people than it ever helps. Some people are smart enough to utilize them correctly and it helps but will never kill a deer for anyone.
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I don’t think they work anywhere. I scouted a couple wma’s in Oklahoma for turkey and saw countless stands and cameras left.
 
What I love most is making photgenic bucks go poof into thin air. A couple in my stash I'm sure a few camera fudds are still after.
 
WPS87 said:
I don’t think they work anywhere. I scouted a couple wma’s in Oklahoma for turkey and saw countless stands and cameras left.
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While it is illegal in OK to leave stands out year round (I think the limit is 14 days after the close of the season) cameras don't have a limit. Mine are all on the floor next to me after I picked them up last weekend, but they're going back in another area next weekend. Going to let them sit for a month or so, just to see what I can see.

I may not learn much from having them out, but it's fun to see what shows up. Seen lots of critters I didn't know we had around here.
 
Mitchellfarmer1982 said:
I think the ban would be pointless in Arkansas bc so few laws regarding leaving items are enforced currently. I do not believe they help as much as people are saying. If anything I think it hurts more people than it ever helps. Some people are smart enough to utilize them correctly and it helps but will never kill a deer for anyone.
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But they would have to go in the woods to enforce the leaving stuff rules. That is semi in jest. Actually heard about a guy that got caught running cams on White river refuge last year. But that's federales.
 
arrowchukker said:
Trail cams, if used for intelligence gathering purposes, may, and I repeat “may” help you lock down a bucks areas a little better. Say it makes the average hunter 5-8% more efficient at killing deer. Here in VA, it takes roughly 12 weeks to harvest 200,000 to 220,000 deer. If you are 5-8% more efficient, just shorten the season 5-8%.
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Or, ban cellular trail cams on any public land. Alot of folks out there who have thought cell cams were stepping over the "fair chase" line when they were introduced and refuse to use them. Don't penalize those folks because all of the sudden deer hunters "need" to use cell cams.
 
BTaylor said:
But they would have to go in the woods to enforce the leaving stuff rules. That is semi in jest. Actually heard about a guy that got caught running cams on White river refuge last year. But that's federales.
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The federal guys are quite different in my experience. But not in a bad way a good way. I spent a week at White River NWR at Thanksgiving and never saw a game warden. We camped at Lake Merisac.
 
Mitchellfarmer1982 said:
The federal guys are quite different in my experience. But not in a bad way a good way. I spent a week at White River NWR at Thanksgiving and never saw a game warden. We camped at Lake Merisac.
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There is a federal female warden in the prime hook area which i see all the time and she is as cool as they come.
its the state or dnrec boys who are ball busters
 
Mitchellfarmer1982 said:
The federal guys are quite different in my experience. But not in a bad way a good way. I spent a week at White River NWR at Thanksgiving and never saw a game warden. We camped at Lake Merisac.
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Umm, dont be dangling your feet in the water around the lake wall there. Some full freakin grown gators hang in that area on the regular.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
I get the argument, but what about the season dates and bag limits. Should it be OK for a private landowner to decide when the season starts on their own property and decide if they want to kill 3 or 103 deer this season? My feeling is that if the state is going to have game laws, the laws need to apply equally to all hunters regardless of whether they own land or not. Otherwise, you create a different class of citizen.
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you are comparing apples to cookies. Not allowing land owners to shoot as many of the natural resources whenever they want is not the same as banning cams on private land.
 
Jeremy_D said:
you are comparing apples to cookies. Not allowing land owners to shoot as many of the natural resources whenever they want is not the same as banning cams on private land.
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A private land trail camera ban (consistent with a public lands ban, aka a statewide ban) is better than a hunting ban on private land, lol.

It's a bit silly, I know, but when folks go hard on their private property rights...begs the question, really, who owns the deer?
 
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