Road hunting.... is it truly hunting?

[Karl Blanchard]

Like my grandpa always said, "you kill them where you find them".  Simple as that.  If they are next to the road or on top of the mountain.  I prefer the mountain but I wouldn't hesitate to bang one from the truck either 

[PlateauNDN]

I take them near and far. I'm a big man but I lace the boots the same. I love and enjoy hiking but if the opportunity is there then it's there.

[westside Elkhunter]

Imo. Everybody has their own way of hunting. As long as it is legal. Let them be. If it makes them happy and enjoy the outdoors. That's what counts

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[theleo]

The good ol ETHICAL HUNTWA... 

Its not your tag, you have no right to tell someone how to hunt.  If I see a deer or an elk from the road I will stop and murder it.... Just the same as if I were 9 miles deep..

Its called, HUNTING.

You can't murder an animal. You can though slay, whack, smoke, thump, let the air out or gift a dirt nap too.

I'm pretty sure I murdered ground squirrels in my younger days. Learned an important lesson shooting those things, when shooting from a vehicle the guy with the 10-22 should shoot out the passenger side window only. If you shoot it out of the driver side widow you'll forever hear the rattle of brass when you turn the defroster on.

[TikkaT3-270Shortmag]

I shot them deep in walkins and one year with a broken leg i shot a nice buck from my heated leather seat in my truck.  Then elk season rolled around and i shot a bull in my walking boot 😀  i usually wear myself out hiking then take a day and just take it easy glassing cuts and covering ground.  To each there own but i do wanna get a "high horse" for transportation next lol

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[Boss .300 winmag]

Shot 75 yards off a road, last day last year and I could not walk (ankle)

I should of let him go cause he was next to a road?  Hell No.

Nice post RT.

I did my fair share of burning boot leather this year to no avail, the last Monday of the season Mr Buck decided to commit suicide by road. I still ended up packing him up a steep ridge almost a mile on our backs because he went down hill before I caught him for the kill shot.

I actually like packing them out on my back, it kinda feels good in a wired way. But I won't pass on a road buck either.   

[brew]

according to the WDFW regulations road hunting/shooting from a road is not illegal unless it is done "negligently"--not sure what the defintion of negligently is but we had a WDFW officer in one of our hunter education classes telling the students that they could basically shoot a deer from I-5 and as long as they weren't shooting negligantly it was legal--shooting from/off of a vehicle was ILLEGAL...if i had a beer for everytime someone posted that their way of hunting was the only ethical way to hunt and every one else who hunted different then them was a slob pathetic unethical hunter than i would have so many aluminum cans/bottles that i could take to a recycle center and not have to worry about working another day in my life.  why do you care about how another hunter choses to hunt ?  bad mouthing legal hunting practices only adds fuel to the fire of anti's.  Also if you keep bragging about the monster bucks you shot behind such and such gate or off of so and so trailhead how long do you think it will take for the masses to start converging on those spots then the crying will be about how crowded all of these places have become?  Yes i know many of you don't say exactly where you are hunting but most fools can figure it out

[Sitka_Blacktail]

I don't see an issue.  10% of the hunters kill 90% of the animals and they don't hunt near roads.

Hah hah. You keep believing that.  Where I hunt, there is pretty much a logging road on every ridge and in some of the canyons too. I stop and glass. I get down in the reprod. I get in the woods. But you better believe I have my eyes open when I'm driving between units. I say take them where you find them. I never noticed that the ones I have taken in the deep woods taste any better than the ones I have caught out in the open while driving.

[tritt007]

I shot my buck this year on the way home from beating feet all morning and all archery season lol . Came around a corner about two miles from my house where the last decent cut is and spotted him bedded in the bottom . Got out walked a good ways into the cut , got a good rest , waited for him to stand up and smoked him . Drug him out whole . was home in about 20 minutes . I dont care what anyone thinks lol .

[coachcw]

I honistly  can't even believe  this is a point of discussion  amongst  hunters ........

[JakeLand]

I honistly  can't even believe  this is a point of discussion  amongst  hunters ........

 

[BULLBLASTER]

The good ol ETHICAL HUNTWA... 

Its not your tag, you have no right to tell someone how to hunt.  If I see a deer or an elk from the road I will stop and murder it.... Just the same as if I were 9 miles deep..

Its called, HUNTING.

You can't murder an animal. You can though slay, whack, smoke, thump, let the air out or gift a dirt nap too.

Oh get off your high horse before you get altitude sickness!






  I apologize to the spacing police.

[JimmyHoffa]

Not sure why so many think road hunting can't be considered hunting.  I've seen a few guys that know the land and the game and can get position themselves accordingly to require least input for a high output.  One of the guys goes on a drive nearly everyday for his lunch break and scouts, finds all the different crossings and knows which deer will be at what point and what time.  At the same time I have also seen guys on foot that are basically taking their guns for a walk, learning less and applying less than some of the guys in vehicles.

[Mr Mykiss]

As of late I prefer to hunt em up in the woods away from roads, jump em in said woods, chase em until their right next to the road, then shoot em from afar...compromise?

[cbond3318]

@DoubleJ, would you please contribute your opinion to this topic discussion?