Does it mean that if your gun is not loaded that you can sit and watch the feeder from anywhere, but if you are going to shoot that yuo have to be 100 yards away, get in a position to where you cannot see the feeder, load you gun and then shoot?
The DCNR's defintion of hunting covers a lot of ground. Walking down a railroad right-of-way carrying a rifle slung over your shoulder with an empty chamber and scope covers in place can get you at ticket. Whether that defintion is overbroad or not has not been litigated yet.
You've got to watch out for some of the language in their defintion:
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DEFINITION OF HUNTING Hunting includes pursuing, shooting, killing, capturing and trapping wild animals, wild fowl, wild birds, and all lesser acts, such as disturbing, harrying or worrying, or placing, setting, drawing, or using any device used to take wild animals, wild fowl, wild birds, whether they result in taking or not, and includes every act of assistance to any person in taking or attempting to take wild animals, wild fowl, or wild birds.
You don't want to worry any animals when you're outdoors or do anything that might disturb them. Just walking thru the woods with no weapons at all may put you on shaky ground if you was to scare a bird or something.
All of this looks more like the government is "doing something FOR us", when in realtiy "they are doing something TO us". Basically, they will have created more garbage that is just as arbitrary and vague as the existing regulations and decided that private land hunters should get an added advantage(perceived or not) over public land hunters. Should the government just allow all hunters the same opportunities to succeed or fail?
"After all, it is not the killing that brings satisfaction; it is the contest of skill and cunning. The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." Dr. Saxton Pope
