I'd like to have one to get away and hide, write, file my nails, do nothing. I'd have a camera ready in case any animals wandered near, then I'm shoot em with my old 35 mm.

This one looks like a death trap.

and call themselves sportsmen. Anybody that needs heating and baitstands to hunt should be dragged out and tossed into a fucking river.

Just go out and fuckin' fish. If you need a computer to help you find where the fish are at, your impatient ass should just play a fishing video game at home.

I have a cheap fish locator that never seems to see any fish. But, it does tell me how deep the water is, and I use it for that purpose.

However, on lakes I know, I never bother to turn it on, since I already know where the fish are, because I've caught them there. What's amusing to me is to watch other anglers, driving an expensive boat around, eyes glued to their LCD screens, and not actually fishing. They almost never look up from those screens, so they miss seeing bait fish at the surface, fleeing from the predators below them. That doesn't show up on their fish finder. Me? I'm in my little 12' aluminum boat, watching the water, even when I'm fishing in a place I know there should be fish. When I see signs like that, I idle over there and catch one of those predators under the school of bait fish.

Then, I release my catch and keep on fishing.

Fish locators are useful if you're on water you don't know, but more for finding the contours under the water than finding fish. In Minnesota, what fish you see on that LCD screen are probably big old carp that you didn't want to fish for anyhow.

Cutting down publicly owned timber is allowed?

You aren't even allowed to use nails to hold up a tree stand in Ohio if they are nailed into the tree.

But, the DNR's budget doesn't go far enough to have enough Conservation Officers to cover all the public hunting areas, so there it is. I used to deer hunt, in my younger days, but I would not venture onto public hunting land in Minnesota. Too many people who seem to think they own the place they hunt, and get really pissed if you're anywhere nearby. Not for me is that.

Nothing says sportsman like hunting from a hammock.

that is a bit smaller then the Jawa Sandcrawler in Star Wars

But I know what it's like to grow up as a kid who's praying that Daddy comes home with a deer, a squirrel, or a couple of rabbits--because otherwise, you're going to bed with an empty tummy again.

So while I oppose luxurious deer stands, I have no problem whatsoever with "baiting" deer when you're poor and trying to feed your family, just like I think people ought to be allowed to hunt to feed their families no matter what "season" it is.

A handful of bruised apples or corn scavenged from a grocery store dumpster and left as bait to draw deer to a certain location on a regular basis can mean the difference between fed kids and hungry ones.

I wish there could be exceptions to these laws for people who aren't out there hunting for "sport". Some places do have those exceptions, but I wish they could be more universal.

the deer closer to their elaborate deer stands?

Oh and hunting, period.....

outside of Duluth during bear season, sit in lawn chairs and blow the brains out the bears that came to forage at said dump, at least until that practice was disallowed.