"A person using a game camera to assist with hunting may not harvest any animal viewed within the same calendar day of remotely viewing that animal from a game camera"
WTF?
Not for nothing...but one of my hunting buddies saw a the biggest buck they've ever seen, and one they'd been trying to get all year, run by their cam, it came up on the phone and some other hunter had shot it.
They ran over there and actually got to the kill before the guy that shot it got to it. The only reason they knew is cause of the phone pic. They didn't claim the deer, but all the "first knife in the deer" guys would have, and this buck was amazing for MA. How would you have felt if this was a big buck that you shot and someone got to it first just cause the cam pic on their phone?
Do you think they might have stalked that camera or quietly tried to hunt down the trail that deer was headed if the deer was just walking by slowly. They fxcking absolutely would have, doesn't guarantee a kill, but certainly gives them intel on the fly and a big edge.
How many deer have been shot in the field by guys at their house who have cams at entrances to the field and get a snap of the deer on their phone, get off their easy chair watching TV, grab a rifle and get ready and shoot the deer out their window or front porch. I'm sure a few.
I don't really care...but lets not try to say that these things aren't being used for an advantage other than not having to go pull a card.
Same reason Alaska doesn't allow you to fly and hunt the same day.
They didn't have these phone cams yet, when I hunted CT, but I would have absolutely been able to kill a ton of deer just running over to properties, after getting a fresh cell pic telling me deer were at one of my other spots, rather than the one I was sitting at. Because deer down there just stand and look at you half the time because they are used to people.