Not posting this because of anything anyone said, I just thought it might be helpful for folks who want to use radios. I remember reading it a while back and went and found it again. Ohio Cuffs & Collars – March 11th, 2016 (
http://www.outdoornews.com/2016/03/10/ohio-cuffs-collars-march-11th-2016/)
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• During the extra two days of the 2015 deer-gun hunting season, state wildlife officer Matt Teders, assigned to Madison County, was on patrol at Deer Creek Wildlife Area. Officer Teders observed a large group of hunters about to start a deer drive. Officer Teders checked the hunters. He observed two-way radios on most of the hunters and could hear others communicating on a channel.
Officer Teders left the contact and turned his two-way radio to the hunters’ channel. Officer Teders listened as the hunters put on the drive. Over the radio he heard of a deer running down a creek. Soon after the radio traffic, officer Teders heard several shots from the group. Officer Teders called in state wildlife officers John Coffman and Josh Elster. After an investigation, it was determined that one hunter had killed a second deer before temporarily tagging the first deer.
The investigation also revealed which hunter had spoken on the radio to let the other hunters know which way the deer was running.
Radios can be used while hunting, but cannot be used to communicate deer movement. Two hunters were cited, one for harvesting a second deer before attaching a tag to the first, and the second for the use of a radio to communicate deer movements. The hunters paid $390 in fines and court costs.