General Deer Opener

[runamuk]

When this has been mentioned before my first thought is "who does that"    I wouldn't even think of using my scope to identify something...DUH...

I have bino's I use them if I forget them I am screwed and suck it up as my own damn fault. 

Last night coming our of the woods it was getting dark fast and I thought about seeing coyotes so I found a stump and scoped that just out of curiosity wanting to see how low a light I could actually see in....I actually could see through my scope after the light made my bino's useless, still wont use my scope for identifying things that has to be about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.  Do not point a gun at me I have a nasty streak of self preservation....

I haven't been wearing orange yet still out for bear..when hubby and kid go out for just grouse they have been wearing their orange....Orange is required during any modern deer or elk season and for upland birds.  Grouse confuse me because I am not sure if I am hunting bears and were to whack a grouse if I am technically breaking the rules of orange and upland  not likely to happen any time soon I wont shoot grouse with my rifle but the thought has occurred to me ....

[Dmanmastertracker]

 Grouse are not upland game birds = no hunter orange required unless modern deer or elk is open.

 Run I'm surprised you don't wear orange hunting bear, I sure do . It makes no sense to me the State does not require it for bear, yet it does for elk and deer.

[runamuk]

Grouse are not upland game birds = no hunter orange required unless modern deer or elk is open.

 Run I'm surprised you don't wear orange hunting bear, I sure do . It makes no sense to me the State does not require it for bear, yet it does for elk and deer.

So far I haven't ever seen any other hunters when I am out hunting bear, and the people who got me started don't wear orange so its the way I roll.... .....I also lived in Idaho no orange over there......and I honestly do not see how only hunters wearing orange is safer....if I am out just hiking during the season I am not required to wear orange yet I am truly no safer than a hunter probably less so actually.  Bear season overlaps with bow and so you have everyone in camo no hunter orange...just not sure I believe orange truly makes it safer....I think education makes people safer......

[Dmanmastertracker]

 To me it goes back to the vision requirement, this State doesn't have one. If you have to have good vision to drive, you sure should be required to have the same capability for hunting .

 The majority of folks out there don't see as good as they should and don't have corrective lenses/ glasses.

[Dmanmastertracker]

 One other observation of this post, every person on this thread except for 4-5 people have said this happens to them at least once per year. Either there is one busy little dude hitting 30 GMU's a year doing nothing but scoping, or there are a whole lot of hunters doing this and not fessin up as having done it.  .

[huntnphool]

One other observation of this post, every person on this thread except for 4-5 people have said this happens to them at least once per year. Either there is one busy little dude hitting 30 GMU's a year doing nothing but scoping, or there are a whole lot of hunters doing this and not fessin up as having done it.  .

 

[halflife65]

One other observation of this post, every person on this thread except for 4-5 people have said this happens to them at least once per year. Either there is one busy little dude hitting 30 GMU's a year doing nothing but scoping, or there are a whole lot of hunters doing this and not fessin up as having done it.  .

 

Well, that guy may be an a-hole, but you could never call him lazy.

[Dmanmastertracker]

One other observation of this post, every person on this thread except for 4-5 people have said this happens to them at least once per year. Either there is one busy little dude hitting 30 GMU's a year doing nothing but scoping, or there are a whole lot of hunters doing this and not fessin up as having done it.  .

 

Well, that guy may be an a-hole, but you could never call him lazy.

[BULLBLASTER]

i wont lie, i have scoped someone one time. it was on the west side elk hunting with a rifle. we had a bull down and were making our way to it and some idiot starts shooting over us! i could hear the whizzing of the bullet then the smack of it hiting what ever it was hitting, then i would hear the report of the rifle. i dunno if he was shooting at our bull or what but it was dead. and he as shooting over our where our rig was parked. thought i might have to shoot back

[JackOfAllTrades]

If given the choice, I would not own a bit of blaze orange!

-Steve

[coachcw]

I will confess , I've learned from my mistakes . When I as about 14 I scoped a guy that didn't have his orange in my sight. I got a real tongue lashing for it and never forgot how it made me feel. that was 26 years ago and i have never done it again , I've taught my kids saftey and also not to cary a round chambered either. how long doe's it take to chamber a round?. It scare's me to see guys hit the woods with there buddies with there jeans half way off there ass , have they be taught right? As aparent this scares the hell out of me . i will say once i tougnue lashed a kid that was about 12 elk hunting with his brother 14 taking shots at anything that moved , if there dad would have showed up he'd probibly got an as kick'n too. this is one reason why i try to hunt more remote areas less weekend warriors too far to cary there beer.

[KimberRich]

Well, Dman, I've left to go hunting with a full-sized t-shirt and came home with a half shirt tank top.  

Hilarious!!! I have come back to camp in a shirt with one sleeve for the same reason. LMAO.

[huntnphool]

Well lets hope we don't get back next week and here about someone getting scoped.

[uncoolperson]

good luck all, hopefully this year I get to join the "I've got a deer" club. after 3 years of not it's about my time right?

[huntnphool]

 Well I'm happy to announce that as far as I know my daughter and I were not scoped once this weekend, of course the fog may have played a role in this, reducing visability to 30 feet most of the time

 Will be back at it Thursday to finish out the week, crossing my fingers that everyone got bino's for Xmas last year