Backcountry idiots

m_freeman

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-20-10 AT 02:07PM (MST)[p]It's the last day of deer season for me and I am sitting atop a ridge about 600 yards from the road where I parked my jeep in a little flat turnout, I am glassing a meadow beyond, looking for the elusive mulie buck. Off in the distance I hear the ring ding ding of a couple of motocross bikers. I thought, they'll pass by quick, and with a few more hours of sunlight things will settle down before prime time. I did chose this area as it is very remote with a rough 10 mi 4wd trail to get back there and I could avoid crowds having hunted the area midweek before, I really didn't expect any company. I turned my binoculars away from the meadow and back to the road and my jeep, much to my surprise one biker pointed to my jeep as he passed and they both stopped about 20 yards past the jeep and looked around. One biker took off his helmet circled back to the jeep and sat on his bike three feet from the back inspecting inside he hadn't touched anything yet. He did seem very interested in the gas cap, I suspect he keeps a siphon hose on his bike. Then he pointed to my rear tire and stuck his hand in his pocket. I thought about the stories I have heard of guys getting their vehicles vandalized in the remote backcountry, I'd be in a world a hurt as remote as I was if they rendered the jeep undrivable. All of a sudden they left fast. He was lucky he didn't touch my jeep, I think he might have had a reason to clean his dirty pants as he would have been scared pretty darn bad.
 
Should've fired a warning shot.

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-20-10 AT 02:10PM (MST)[p]if he touched the jeep he would of heard whizzzzz then kabooom about 20 feet overhead, I would certainly have done my best to make him ride that bike with dirty pants.
 
Maybe his buddy spotted you and told him to get TFOT so they left.

Brian
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no I was in camo in the shadow behind bushes, no blaze orange.
I think the one guy realized it was a hunters vehicle and the possibilities. The other guy was just a plain idiot.
 
Gotta love the "backcountry" reference followed by the "600 yds from my jeep". Warning shots are always a great idea too.
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-10 AT 09:19PM (MST)[p]Addict, I am with you. I guess everyone has their own definition of "backcountry". But, normally that doesn't include jeeps or motorcycles here in Idaho. If I was in the "backcountry" and saw a jeep, well I would know I wasn't in the "backcountry" yet. JMO
 
I agree --this was backcountry for Southern CA, to get remote out here it's the condition of the roads that create the isolation, because there are good roads into all the public lands except for a few areas.
I was as far away from development as you can get about 10 mi up a jeep trail connected to 8 mi of forest road, 35 mi to nearest village that's your starting point for walking in, about as remote as you can get in San Diego County.
Still would have been a long walk if they jacked my jeep. We hunt urban deer out here, they have peculiar habits governed by the activity of the nearby housing tracts. LOL well not quite that bad.
 
What do you do in that situation? I think you did the right thing and stayed patient. It worked itself out in the end. Plus, you shoot a warning shot immediately, there goes your hunt for the night as well as potentially wounding or killing somebody. That would also ruin your hunt for the night. :)

Steve
"Get that corn out of my face"
 

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