gomer snerd wrote:Because I want you to hunt the way I enjoy it. My way is the right way. Your way is wrong and you shouldn't hunt that way because I don't like it. I don't like to use them so you shouldn't be allowed to use them. Next I am going to get dodge trucks , winchester guns , under armor clothing and diet Pepsi banned because I don't like them either.
There's a little more to it than that, but I don't know that it matters down here. A joint study between the USFW & whatever Canadian authority does their thing found that the harvest ratios for Mojo's/no Mojos in fields on the border was 40/1. In other words, in side-by-side trials, people using mojo's killed 40 to every 1 killed without them. That finding was significant because it also found the decoys to be exponentially more effective on juvenile birds. The reasonable conclusion was that, by harvesting an inordinately high number of juveniles, the decoys and the hunters using them screw with the inprinting process and the natural migration patterns of the birds. Some scientists linked that re-direction of the imprinting process to large numbers of birds dying off from starvation because they failed to migrate.
Those convicted as such have called for a prohibition of the decoys based upon the fact that they see them as unethical. If you had hunted over one of them in 1997, you would have agreed. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. On the other hand, I'm not sure that they have a meaningful impact in Arkansas at this point, beyond annoying neighboring hunters because they don't work and tend to cause birds to circle for a while and then fly off, losing interest in any legitimate decoy spreads and callers in the meantime. Were there a serious discussion regarding banning their use in Canada and in border states, I'd have a stronger opinion on the matter, because I think those places have a legitimate inpact on harvest numbers running the length of the flyway. By the time the birds get down here, I sincerely doubt that it makes any difference.
Smell that? Smells like sumthin died in here.