Hunting Ethics: Understanding the Unwritten Rules of Safe, Proper, and Fair Hunting, Slides of Wildlife Ecology

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Hunting Ethics

The Unwritten Law(hunting ethics) The

Third Step

• hunting ethics are personal codes by which we live by
• ethics deal with what is safe,proper and fair.
• Ethics are sometimes known as morals and morals are generally right

CAREFUL

• A hunters commitment and attitude to basic rules of safety

COURTEOUS

• A hunters behavior. To be courteous means to be polite or gracious

CAPABLE

• A hunters ability including marksmanship, outdoor skills, knowledge level and good judgment.

Who enforces the unwritten law?

• ALL OF US DO

• just like peer pressure can encourage us to violate laws and ethics, peer pressure can help us act responsibly

Body Functions Affected by Alcohol

• fine motor control(marksmanship)
• judgment(safe zone-of-fire, background,foreground)
• hearing(locating game or other hunters)
• color perception(game identification)
• reaction time(quickness)
• vision(game ID, safe zone-of-fire)
• coordination(aiming,muzzle control)

PERSONAL CHOICE- The Fourth

Step

• Hunters who follow safe, legal and ethical practices come to the level which allows them to make personal choices
• personal choices are influenced by many things - how and where you were raised - your experience with hunting traditions - your understanding of conservation

INVOLVEMENT (the top of the

mountain)

• This means obligation, cooperation and dedication
• obligation means duty
• cooperation means working and talking with each other, landowners, non-hunters and agency people such as game wardens
• dedication means working for a cause

Landowner’s complaints about

hunters

• hunters think landowners owe them free hunting
• don’t get permission to hunt
• don’t tel the landowner when they arrive or leave the property
• make too much noise
• leave litter

Safety Dilemma

• You are hunting quail. You and your companions just flushed a covey of quail and are now heading towards the spot where a few landed. You are in the middle and one companion on your right. The companion on your left disappears behind the thicket. Suddenly three quail explode from in front of you. Two quail head toward the thicket to your left. One flies toward an area in front of your companion on the right.

• What would you do?
• Shoot at one which flew left
• Shoot at one which flew right
• Not shoot

• Go into the posted property
• attempt to reach the landowner
• attempt to reach the game warden
• consider that you made every effort and leave it go