I'm not fully disagreeing, but there's a distinction to be made. I can find my blind, my car, and maybe a carcass on a pristine forest floor on some pretty dark nights, but if that thing jumped into some greenbrier or other brush, good luck. It's hard enough seeing them in that stuff during the day, I've had multiple occasions where I walked by a thicket in the day only to see deer flush out after I'm past it.
Also, some people just can't see in the dark well, regardless of how well they see in the day.
I think that if you are hanging around forrest with a gun and shooting that gun in the night, you probably should not be someone with poorer then eyesight in the night.
Saying that as someone who occasionally returned late from hike and would prefer not to be shot by hunters.
You're not hunting deer in the dark. You're getting to your blind before sunrise or you could be recovering your deer in the dark from a day time shot.
In that case, you can put away the gun and use the light.
The point is that the activity of hunting spans over an entire day and certain activities can be performed before sunrise or after sunset and none of those activities involve shooting a gun.
If they are looking for a deer they have shot few hours before, they can put away gun and walk around using the light. The lights are not allowed when they have guns with them.
* The agency's position is that recovery is part of the activity of hunting.
* The state law prohibits the use of spotlights for hunting during either of the hunting seasons.
* The drone operator was cited when he used a light on the drone to highlight a live deer.
* There's no indication as to what type of light was on the drone.
* The article doesn't provide the definition of a spotlight is under the law.
* The article states that the law allows recovery of game at night.
* There's currently legislation to legalize and define legal use of drones for hunting.
* Law enforcement is being accused of inconsistent enforcement of the law.
I guess my question is, how do you recovery a deer at night without a light? Is there a definition of spotlight and differentiates it from any other light that might be used to recover a light?