Add for fish hook tracking device

buckdeer1

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I just noticed the add on side of this web site for a tracking device that is like a fish hook with a transmitter.I don't think these are legal in Kansas and would imagine there are other states where they aren't legal.I was surprised these are sold
 
I'm not suprised at any tech that gets marketed, and that it gets bought. People love gadgets!

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Since this forum is all about deer hunting where's the broadhead with the transmitter? Now that would be a gamechanging controversial hot topic! Especially since the technology already exists.
 
people are not supposed to use bait, rifles, electronic calls, spot lights, vehicles and a pile of other things as well.....but these things fly off the shelf every year and you know folks are using them. Folks market the products and then let the individual determine how to use them (legally or otherwise)......funny, how they are now trying to do just the opposite with AR rifles!

As for the broadhead - I thought that was already a thing actually. I have not seen or used it, but as I understood it. There was a GPS tracker in the shaft/head somewhere that you could use an app on your phone to help find it. Only gonna help you find deer if you don't get a pass thru or the deer doesn't break it off.
 
What you describe is very expensive so most are not spending that kind of money. Another option is coming to market soon and it mounts to the rear of the arrow and works regardless if the arrow passes through or not. That is all I can divulge at this time.
 
people are not supposed to use bait, rifles, electronic calls, spot lights, vehicles and a pile of other things as well.....but these things fly off the shelf every year and you know folks are using them. Folks market the products and then let the individual determine how to use them (legally or otherwise)......funny, how they are now trying to do just the opposite with AR rifles!

As for the broadhead - I thought that was already a thing actually. I have not seen or used it, but as I understood it. There was a GPS tracker in the shaft/head somewhere that you could use an app on your phone to help find it. Only gonna help you find deer if you don't get a pass thru or the deer doesn't break it off.


Well, the reason for that is that all those things are legal for some uses in various states. Not all are legal in all states for all things.......
 
This one advertised on this site had a barbed spear attached right below broadhead that stuck in animal so it could be tracked.Know what you mean about gadgets.Our local atwoods sells hog lure,bait, and lights but it is illegal for anyone except landowner to kill a hog in kansas
 
This one advertised on this site had a barbed spear attached right below broadhead that stuck in animal so it could be tracked.Know what you mean about gadgets.Our local atwoods sells hog lure,bait, and lights but it is illegal for anyone except landowner to kill a hog in kansas
It won’t be long before that hog law changes as they expand their territory...when I was a kid nobody ever heard of a wild hog north of the red river...now they are commonplace everywhere.
 
Well, the reason for that is that all those things are legal for some uses in various states. Not all are legal in all states for all things.......
Agree/understand. My point is that "legality" of a products use isn't the responsibility of the retailer. And especially at the local level I am sure they know what some of the local laws are yet will sell products they have a certain level of understand will be used in an illegal manner (as baiting for hunting is illegal here). Yet, we see more and more retailers on the AR band wagon....
 
Agree/understand. My point is that "legality" of a products use isn't the responsibility of the retailer. And especially at the local level I am sure they know what some of the local laws are yet will sell products they have a certain level of understand will be used in an illegal manner (as baiting for hunting is illegal here). Yet, we see more and more retailers on the AR band wagon....
History shows that retailers do have some responsibility for the legal use of their products, such as alchohol for instance. A retailer's responsibility usually requires them to label their products against common misuse, such as Cabelas selling electronic turkey calls at their Pennsylvania store, a state where they are illegal to use, they have a line that states "be sure to check local ordinances before using" or they could potentially be held liable for selling them there.
 
History shows that retailers do have some responsibility for the legal use of their products, such as alchohol for instance. A retailer's responsibility usually requires them to label their products against common misuse, such as Cabelas selling electronic turkey calls at their Pennsylvania store, a state where they are illegal to use, they have a line that states "be sure to check local ordinances before using" or they could potentially be held liable for selling them there.

I wish there had been a warning label on my first wife........
 
Several weeks ago I had a fellow trad bow hunter to the farm that used an old style game tracker thread contraption taped to the front of his self bow. Kind of odd for a guy that makes his own bow, arrows and knaps his own points I thought...until he shot a doe on the 2nd evening. This contraption was like a big spool of thread taped to his riser below the handle. He shot the doe on the edge of the swamp. When we went to track the doe, we simply picked up the end of the thread he left at the base of the stand and followed it right to the doe. No blood and in mucky, swampy waist high grass n weeds would have meant quite a bit of searching without that thread. Thought it was ingenious. He wrapped the end piece around the shaft attached to the arrow head. I learned quite a bit about river cane arrows. Just assumed the arrowhead attached directly to the arrow shaft but instead, the arrow head was attached to a small hardwood dowel that was then inserted into the end of of the river cane arrow. Cool experience and the thread certainly was a life saver in finding the doe.
 
I had one of those String Trackers way back when they first came out. The First Night I used it I read the instructions and it said "make sure the string pulls out easily. Felt like it did so I figured I was good to go. Near Dark I drew and released on a deer. the string beating on the plastic housing the string was held in made a RRRRRRRRRRRRRR sound the entire way out and every deer in the area was gone. Made it easy to find the arrow though.
So I opened the plastic enough that the string really flowed easy. That night I looked down and I had about 3-4 feet of string waving in the breeze. LOL.

And it used a rubber plug you put in to keep the thread in while walking to your stand-- which fell out the 2nd time I used it. It was a very good idea but it did not last. To many guys had issues like I did and they died.
 
Kansas thought on not shooting hogs is that people releasing to shoot was as big of problem as them spreading
 
Kansas made it illegal to shoot/hunt wild pigs so that people wouldn't transplant them for hunting or outfitting purposes. Then they implemented helicopter hunting with state gunners. I live close to Oklahoma where there are large pig populations, and have yet to see a wild hog in KS. I know they occasionally get here, but they aren't a problem yet. This is an area of management that I think KS had done very well with.

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Kansas made it illegal to shoot/hunt wild pigs so that people wouldn't transplant them for hunting or outfitting purposes. Then they implemented helicopter hunting with state gunners. I live close to Oklahoma where there are large pig populations, and have yet to see a wild hog in KS. I know they occasionally get here, but they aren't a problem yet. This is an area of management that I think KS had done very well with.

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I believe that to be true. I wish Texas had gotten in front of this 20/30 years ago. But....being the cynic that I am, and knowing how much money is involved in Texas hunting, I have to believe that the powers that be were willing to look the other way and let the money flow. Now we have an invasion of hogs, more hogs in East Texas than deer. Some folks are unwilling to believe that, but I’ve never seen 20/25 deer at a feeder, and I’ve sure as hell seen that many hogs multiple times and different groups of that size in the same day. I shoot every one I can, even while deer hunting, but I ain’t made a dent in them.
 
I believe that to be true. I wish Texas had gotten in front of this 20/30 years ago. But....being the cynic that I am, and knowing how much money is involved in Texas hunting, I have to believe that the powers that be were willing to look the other way and let the money flow. Now we have an invasion of hogs, more hogs in East Texas than deer. Some folks are unwilling to believe that, but I’ve never seen 20/25 deer at a feeder, and I’ve sure as hell seen that many hogs multiple times and different groups of that size in the same day. I shoot every one I can, even while deer hunting, but I ain’t made a dent in them.
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When they first turned up in Pa, at least according to my Brother, the Pa Game Commission did the same thing. They said that Hunting them would only spread them out, so you were not allowed to do that.

So far they are only in the SE I do believe, I know he doesn't have an issue with them on his NW Property yet.
 
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