True Blue Road-Hunters!

[billythekidrock]

Archery "hunters" driving road with arrows nocked in back of pick-up sitting in lounge chairs.  Took the cake in my book. 

Saw this tonight in the Capitol Forest. Both driver and passenger were knocked while cruising the roads near Rock Candy.

[deaner]

i guess i can understand why people would do that with rifles (laziness) but isnt the whole point of archery to add an extra element of challenge to hunting?  i just dont get why somebody would buy a bow tag, then run around trying to shoot from a vehicle like that.  maybe theyre felons and cant have guns?

[Landowner]

Like our local game warden reminds me when asking him why there are so many problems with bow hunters-----felons who can't possess firearms hunt archery. 

Recognizing of course, that only a few archery hunters are felons. 

[methowman]

Gotta vent.... to many Hunters have the attitude (myself included from the time I started hunting in 1977) that road hunters are riding in the comfort of the rigs due to laziness. I'm sure this is true for some of us but as a hunter that never road hunted until recently I know the reality of why. Trust me, laziness has nothing to do with it. I keep myself in good shape, workout ,hike, played basket ball until 2 years ago, but old age is taking its toll, bad hip, knee, & back have forced me to spend at least 20-30% of my hunting hours in a vehicle.
The next time you see some old duffer hunting from his seat remember that one day that will be You.

To the original post: Sounds like the old boys jumping in & out of the truck thought they were on an animal & made a bad play on it but that sort of crap happens
in the timber as well as on a road. What can you do...pack you gear up & move on to the next trail....

[BOWHUNTER45]

Let Bowhunter clue you in on something .. Yeah they may have been hunting ...BUT it may not have been for game ....It is harvest time for whachy weed .....maybe they are looking for their trail that leads to their grow site  I should be a detective 

[furiouzgeorge]

Gotta vent.... to many Hunters have the attitude (myself included from the time I started hunting in 1977) that road hunters are riding in the comfort of the rigs due to laziness. I'm sure this is true for some of us but as a hunter that never road hunted until recently I know the reality of why. Trust me, laziness has nothing to do with it. I keep myself in good shape, workout ,hike, played basket ball until 2 years ago, but old age is taking its toll, bad hip, knee, & back have forced me to spend at least 20-30% of my hunting hours in a vehicle.
The next time you see some old duffer hunting from his seat remember that one day that will be You.

To the original post: Sounds like the old boys jumping in & out of the truck thought they were on an animal & made a bad play on it but that sort of crap happens
in the timber as well as on a road. What can you do...pack you gear up & move on to the next trail....

All good points and I respect your perspective.

[buckhorn2]

When we were moose hunting in Alaska by swanson river there were motor homes driving the roads with couches on the top so they could see over the willows. When your young hitting the woods and getting away from the roads is great but when you get older and still like to hunt road hunting works when you see places that look good for deer or elk when your seventy it's usually all you can do is look don't think they would;nt like to get up there. You do what you can do your still hunting.

[ghosthunter]

Well some times ,couple times a year, I find myself alone and no real plan that I have to do.
Driving gravel forest roads is very relaxing and one of my most favorite things to do year round.

I cannot remember what my wife wanted me to do from one room to the next. But I can remember almost every forest road I have ever been on and what was at the end.

Why is that?

[boneaddict]

When we were moose hunting in Alaska by swanson river there were motor homes driving the roads with couches on the top so they could see over the willows. When your young hitting the woods and getting away from the roads is great but when you get older and still like to hunt road hunting works when you see places that look good for deer or elk when your seventy it's usually all you can do is look don't think they would;nt like to get up there. You do what you can do your still hunting.

That couch is more fun than digging devils club out of your knuckles.    

[lostbackpacker]

I was hunting a nasty ravine. Had a cow tag. Out popped a cow. Down went a cow.

We hauled the cow out an old skid road right behind this groups camp. They all looked at me very funny. One of the guys asked me where I shot the cow. I told them it was about,300 yards behind their camp in the ravine.

He guy told me they had been there all week and hadn't seen anything. I politely informed them that I saw their truck drive by 3 different times before 10am. 

They looked at me like I was crazy.

[hrd2fnd]

Well some times ,couple times a year, I find myself alone and no real plan that I have to do.
Driving gravel forest roads is very relaxing and one of my most favorite things to do year round.

I cannot remember what my wife wanted me to do from one room to the next. But I can remember almost every forest road I have ever been on and what was at the end.

Why is that?

[sakoshooter]

I'm not judging, but during early elk I saw a jeep Cherokee with the front doors taken off.   Three guys in it driving really slow.  But what sold me they were true road hunters were the bow holders bolted to the hood.  One on each side. They drove around with their bows on the hood of their rig.   I guess it made getting out quicker and quieter. Pretty Hardcore to outfit your rig like that.

Imagine all the dust and other grit that gets all over everthing.

[Jonathan_S]

We road hunted this weekend   

My wife's 2 pairs of boots got soaked on Saturday and Sunday we drove all over, looking for her first buck.  Pouring down rain and the whitetail were up and moving.  She missed clean on a forkhorned whitetail (watched him run 500 yards uphill and then feed before clearing out for good)

We saw two mature bucks but they didn't stop until they were 200 yards away and the high winds didn't make for an ethical shot.

Four grouse bit the dust though so it was a fun day and it was nice to mix it up, especially since the wife isn't crazy about still hunting when it's soaking wet and all she has left are tennis shoes.  All in all, it was a good road hunt day.   

[JLS]

I've seen a lot of really nice legal bucks from the road during the season.  Not sure why folks look down on people doing what they know and what they can to be successful.  Plus if every rig pulled over and everyone got out and hit the hill, it would be crowded beyond belief.   I see nothing wrong with taking a drive during down hours, seeing some sites, breathing some air.  More fun to me than sitting in a blind over a bait pile.   

This all can be argued from any different opinion and side.   There are things about it I hate, things about it I don't understand, and things about it I see are bad.  There is a reverse to everyone of those statements.   There are things about it that I like, that I understand, and that I see are good.   

and yes, I have made fun of and haganged and scoffed at some as well.

 

I can't figure out why anyone cares how other folks hunt, so long as it's legal.  It really has no bearing on me, I can choose to tailor my hunt to fit the current situation. 

Some days when I'm tired and worn out, I enjoy driving around drinking coffee and eating Pop Tarts.