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Offline J-Bone

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Calling cats from Truck bed
« on: August 06, 2024, 01:14:25 PM »
I found a spot that looks primo for Cougars, however, there is no good location to bunker down and shoot from. For that reason, I am contemplating setting up in my truck bed which has a hard top canopy. So the question is, will a cougar be sketched out by a parked truck and decide not to investigate any further?

Given the high traffic of cougars on residential cams, I'm not thinking they would be bothered by this but dont feel like wasting my time

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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2024, 01:25:25 PM »
The one I shot last year would of walked down mainstreet in broad daylight. 
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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2024, 02:49:36 PM »
I found a spot that looks primo for Cougars, however, there is no good location to bunker down and shoot from. For that reason, I am contemplating setting up in my truck bed which has a hard top canopy. So the question is, will a cougar be sketched out by a parked truck and decide not to investigate any further?

Given the high traffic of cougars on residential cams, I'm not thinking they would be bothered by this but dont feel like wasting my time

Better double check the regs
I believe if disabled you may be good
Otherwise ……………?
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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2024, 03:13:12 PM »
I found a spot that looks primo for Cougars, however, there is no good location to bunker down and shoot from. For that reason, I am contemplating setting up in my truck bed which has a hard top canopy. So the question is, will a cougar be sketched out by a parked truck and decide not to investigate any further?

Given the high traffic of cougars on residential cams, I'm not thinking they would be bothered by this but dont feel like wasting my time

Better double check the regs
I believe if disabled you may be good
Otherwise ……………?


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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2024, 03:18:24 PM »
Yes. Sounds like a loaded firearm in a vehicle.

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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2024, 03:31:08 PM »
I found a spot that looks primo for Cougars, however, there is no good location to bunker down and shoot from. For that reason, I am contemplating setting up in my truck bed which has a hard top canopy. So the question is, will a cougar be sketched out by a parked truck and decide not to investigate any further?

Given the high traffic of cougars on residential cams, I'm not thinking they would be bothered by this but dont feel like wasting my time

Better double check the regs
I believe if disabled you may be good
Otherwise ……………?

 :yeah:

And even then, they have tightened up the disability requirements allowing shooting from a vehicle.
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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2024, 03:38:55 PM »
ground blind?
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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2024, 04:46:13 PM »
If the loaded firearm is inside of a vehicle on private property, what then?

I cant sit in an old abandoned car with a loaded weapon?

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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2024, 05:15:59 PM »
If the loaded firearm is inside of a vehicle on private property, what then?

I cant sit in an old abandoned car with a loaded weapon?

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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2024, 05:25:33 PM »
If the loaded firearm is inside of a vehicle on private property, what then?

I cant sit in an old abandoned car with a loaded weapon?
You can get a DUI sleeping in the back of your car. You dont need to break the law to be forced into court, skirting around the edges of what is technically legal is a gamble that will be sorted out in court and not in the field.
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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2024, 05:43:27 PM »
If your truck was sitting there turned off for long enough, one may come in. But as others have said, I don't believe this is legal. Not what you asked and you may not care, but figured I'd throw my 2 cents in. I'd go with a ground blind.

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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2024, 07:02:46 PM »

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You can get a DUI sleeping in the back of your car.
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I don’t think so anymore.  At least not in Whatcom County.  But that’s another discussion. 

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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2024, 09:18:25 PM »
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=77.15.460
4c You can shoot from a vehicle if the engine is off and you are not parked on or beside the maintained portion of a public road :dunno: am I reading that right
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Re: Calling cats from Truck bed
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2024, 09:28:08 AM »

You can get a DUI sleeping in the back of your car.
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I don’t think so anymore.  At least not in Whatcom County.  But that’s another discussion.
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You can absolutely be arrested for it. Whether or not you end up being convicted was not the point of my comment.
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