Clearly no one here wants to discuss this seriously. I'm going to bow out of the conversation at this point. Thanks to all those who actually entertained the idea. -Joe
A few did...how much discussion would you like of an inane topic? It's not legal...and for good reason, most of which have been pointed out time and again and you just keep wanting to push the discussion bs. At this point you're just looking like a troll.
You can't on one hand disregard comments as not being serious, and on the other, wonder why others might do the same to your comments. People hunt for different reasons, but lines have to be drawn somewhere. Poison arrows are definitely somewhere I'd draw the line.
I didn't. Hence why I asked you if you honestly thought that shooting a deer with a taser would be the most humane way. Were you just trolling or...?
See, I feel as though everyone here is not looking at the entire picture. I think that we all understand that poison-tipped arrows are illegal, but we are strictly speaking ethically. Some people feel as though Joe is too inexperienced to be speaking of this topic, I feel as though he is just sparking a debate about a topic that he found interesting. I can see his point from the ethical standpoint of the "what-if" scenario of accidentally misfiring on a deer. Let's say, gods forbid, you gut shot a deer; you need to wait several hours before even trying to locate it. In those several hours, the deer is running around in the woods confused, and scared because it has no idea what happened. The deer is in excruciating pain for this allotment of time. In this instance, it would be more humane for the deer to die even a little more quickly. From the other point: Yes bowhunting is about making sure to hit your mark, which is both rewarding,and exhilarating. If you can just hit the deer anywhere and it would just die that takes the skill of the sport away. I am just saying that maybe it would be better to look at both sides, rather than just assuming that Joe is just being unsportsman-like.
Beans and cats? I've tried beans and hot dogs but beans and cats, that seems a little too unconventional.
IF I was solely looking to ensure that a hit deer was down, a taser quite possibly would be. Poison also wouldn't always be the "most humane" way or eliminate wounding an animal. Take a brisket or grazing back shot. A whitetail will survive these with little to no pain with little more than a scratch. With a poison tipped arrow, a graze like that would most likely fail to deliver a lethal dose. Instead, a non-lethally poisoned deer could be roaming the woods for days with sick and near death.
The most humane way would be to use a tranq gun and dispatch it after it was asleep. If it happened to get out of sight and wasn't found then it would simply wake up after the drug wore off.
I doubt any of them had/have compound bows capable of blowing threw an animal at 300+ fps... more like long bows, blow guns and spears. When you lack the power to get good penetration you have little other recourse than to use poison. Like in south america Im sure a lot used/use poison dart frogs and a blow gun and were/are shooting at monkeys in the tops of tree's... how else would you kill a monkey in the top of a tree with nothing more than a blow gun? lol
Hi I'm Joe Collins, I'm trying so hard to be a part of the forums! I've never hunted before, but I'm going to post a non debatable topic on a bowhunting forum and then play the victim when people call me out on it. AND I'm going to argue with people who HAVE successfully hunted and harvested game for years. Ps. In my spare time I correct peoples grammar on the internet! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Your premise is flawed. Hard to be quicker than a matter of seconds from a well placed shot. And poison is not necessarily a more humane death. And, as I believe Fitz said, what about a shot that a deer could easily recover from, but that becomes infected due to your poison causing a much slower much more painful death? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
