Should canned hunting be banned?

Question

If you do not know what this is... these places offer a wide variety of animals to be hunted/killed ranging from antelope/lions/cougar/zebra.... they are released from a cage or can and shot within feet, the hunter is there already, the animal does not get a chance to get away. Sometimes the animals are even drugged before release to prevent them from escaping.

Answer 1

For Zastava7....http://www.real-hunters.com/full.swf

I am an avid hunter and outdoorsman, but I cannot stand animals not taken by the rule of fair chase. Baiting is one thing, but when you add the fences......why not just become a farmer?

Answer 2

"Canned" hunting addresses one growing problem, human encroatchment into wild areas. As open forrest and woods disappear at an alarming rate, wildlife gets bottled up into state parks and private lands. Hunters have to be increasingly aware of "where the bullet goes" after it is fired.
While I do not agree with corraled shootings, hunting on state land is becoming more and more like canned hunting.
One more thing, canned hunting also provides enjoyment for the handicaped hunter, who would like to hunt but due to a disability is no longer able to walk through the woods. Several state parks offer handicapped hunting areas, close to roads and accessible by wheel chairs. Once into a position, the hunters do just fine.

Answer 3

There is such a thing as canned hunting. But it is not how you described it. The animals are not drugged nor are they released from a cage in front of the hunter. I have been hunting for many years and I have yet to see any thing like what you have described. Most hunters wouldn't allow it.

Answer 4

although i dont agree with it as you descibe it ,it is no different than the steer i bought a few months ago and butchered .if some rich d'''k wants to buy a animal ,shoot it ,mount it and then tell his friends how he braved two tribes of pigmees and a case of maleria in the wilds of africa to take that zebra thats his bussiness.people with mobility issues may pertisapate in some form of that ,because they may not be able to hike up the mnt.becareful saying any form of legal hunting should be banned ,thats what the antis want get us to turn on each other just because you dont agree with some legal activity dont try to mandate or leguslate your opion on someone else.

Answer 5

While I personally dislike canned hunts, it is sometimes necessary. It allows severely mobility restricted hunters the ability to still take part in the sport.

Answer 6

The canned hunt, hi fence hunt debate has been going on for 40 years.

I have a couple things to bring to people's awareness. Many of these closed ranches have become breeding farms for game that had become endangered. I personally believe in the fair chase hunting. That said without the ranches that stage canned hunts many wild populations would have not been at the numbers they are ay now.

One such ranch is the Y-O in Texas. They are a breeding ranch in Texas that have brought several species back from the brink. The hunts that offer are based on strong herd management requirements.
While I do not see the sport in it. It fills an economic and wildlife management need.

The fact is land that is open to public hunting is shrinking in all areas of the world. I was watching a debate on Versus between Larry Weishun, and Ron Spooner,

http://whitetail.versus.com/videoLarge.aspx?vid=480


I've been witnessing over the last 4 decades the decline of land that does not have a hunting lease attached to it. I've asked permission of farmers only to have them say "I am sorry, but the hunting is leased out".. 30 years ago, you ask permissions and many land owners would grab the shotgun and go bird hunting with you.

Land becomes the issue. How can we keep US hunting from becoming the same as middle age Europe when the Lords held the hunting rights to the land. and peasants who hunted were considered poachers.

My comment is about the "Canned Hunt" and "Deer Management" Between Weishun and Spooner.

As I see the debate, trophy deer hunting management has changed the physical landscape of hunting for Joe Six pack. In many areas
Lands once open to hunting by permission are now closed due to hunting leases. I grew up as a kid driving the country roads and looking spots to hunt.
If I'd see a likely prospect I'd stop and ask a farmer for permission. Do that today and many farmers are saying they have leased out the ground for hunting rights.

This trend is disturbing to me. What I've found is there is a direct correlation to lack of permission based hunting and trophy deer management.
I am a meat hunter.. I don't see the allure of having a mount on the wall so I can swap tails of the conquest. I do so to feed my family.

My grand-dad have about 1000 acres, and would allow people to come on and hunt. Grandpa raised "food plots" as normal farming practice.

Now in areas where lease pressure is high what remains for people like myself to hunt is CRP or State lands where hunting pressure is beyond the pail.
CRP is great for bedding but not for food. Grandpa used to "Summer fallow" as a good soil practice. Now farmers because of Ethanol are farming to the road ditch, and habitat is often not existence except where hunting is closed to the "Serfs" of today.

If grandpa's land were still in the family it would be a difficult answer to solve as the economic incentive of thousands of dollars on a struggling farmer goes a long way.

It is disheartening as I grow older and see my daughter begin to love to hunt, to know that less and less land will be available for her to do so.

This I see is the real issue land owners, and trophy hunters need to consider when they suck up large tracts of land for "trophy management". How can we keep hunting a viable sport for all when the $$$ of the trophy hunters close land to permission access?

Answer 7

searching foxes with canine is banned yet going out and shooting them isn't. the entire factor wasn't something approximately foxes and each thing approximately classification hatred that the Labour party represents. in my opinion I have not have been given any desire to chase around the geographical area after foxes on horseback and don't fairly resent everybody else doing it looking on their effortless of habit. notwithstanding foxes are vermin - they don't merely kill what they opt for. The animal has a blood lust and could kill each and every chicken you have or the different animal that it could get to. that's why they could be controlled. paradoxically controlling them with weapons ends up in so lots greater foxes being killed than in the previous. that for the duration of all fairness commonplace of this usa however.

Answer 8

It is certainly not a sport. I would have to think longer before I said anything should absolutely be banned though. I would not do such things, and I have no respect for anyone who would, but I am not a tyrant to force my opinions upon everyone.

Answer 9

I may not agree with canned hunts but I have never heard of them drugging the animals, provide a real link proving this please.

Answer 10

YES I believe in fair chase or pursuit of game.*