Road hunting big bucks

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Lets see who has shot a big buck while road hunting. I was the taxi driver for a buddy that missed a 28"-29" stud from 100 yards a few years back. I know there are guys that kill nice deer every year with a donut in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. Sometimes it pays to be lazy! Lets see some pics
 
So, you're saying that while driving into your hunting spot, a big old gnarly buck happens to be standing up on the ridge, half way hidden in some buck brush, and you wouldn't stop, get out of your truck, get off the road and try to put the smack down on him. That's hard to believe. That's not a whole lot different than driving to a high spot somewhere, setting up your spotting scope on your window, and looking over several miles of country. Are you saying that that is against your rules, also? I don't sit in my truck, driving around all day, but I sure as heck won't pass up an opportunity to jump out and chase a buck if I see one.
 
I've been around for a long time and don't remember ever seeing a big buck by the road during deer season. I carry my rifle in a hard gun case while driving so it would have to be a really retarded big buck for me to get a shot.
 
topguns ethics are so far superior to ours he doesnt shoot anything witin 2 miles of a road or vehicle.If you cross paths with a shooter and its a legal situation youd be an idiot to pass because you saw it from the road.


"I absolutely had my head up my azz "
TOPGUN
 
I saw a video of Ryan hatch and a bunch of guys hunting the Jicarilla and it looked liked the major strategy was road hunting. They were shooting some gaggers.
 
I've never shot one but...."almost". I had taken my oldest son and two of his friends (all 12) for their first hunt (all were from my hunter ed class). At the end of 4 days, they had seen 454 deer and fired exactly ZERO shots.

Explanations/excuses were, "too far away", "moving", "he said it was too little", "couldn't get the gun loaded", "couldn't get the bullet out of my pocket", "where is it?", "which one". If any of you have taken complete rookies, you've heard most of the same explanations. They all boil down to inexperience.

Late in the afternoon of the last day, we were "headed out" on a two-track through the trees. My wife and I wife were in the cab of the pick-up, while all three hunters were in the back; going about 10 mph.

Suddenly...banging on the roof and urgent "stop", "there he is" and all of that. Literally 25 yards off the side of the trail, standing in the middle of a clearing is a BIG deer (heavy, 28" wide, good forks...probably about 180; it was VERY good deer).

We all jumped out.....nothing but silence for about 30 seconds. I REALLY wanted to shoot it but I can't shoot it "out from under" them. (I had time to uncase my gun, load a round and put the crosshairs on it...very patient deer.)

Nothing.

After it "got bored and left", I asked...."So, why didn't you shoot at THIS one". The two friends both said, "Chris saw it first, it was his deer"....OK, just like "the plan", because I didn't want 3 beginners to be racing to see who got to shoot first (VERY GOOD GUYS).

I turned to my son (who was still down on one knee aiming at where the deer had been) and asked, "why didn't YOU shoot".

The (oft-repeated) answer: "I was going to......but I was afraid I'd miss and you guys would all laugh"........to which everyone DID......and still do!

Closest I've come to a big deer from the road. I've walked plenty of "empty" miles up and down the mountains. If/when a big one commits suicide near the road, I'll certainly shoot him.


Within the shadows, go quietly.
 
overton, you need to put more miles on your truck.:)

This happened about 10 years ago. We were camped at our usual spot on the mountain. It was hot and dry and we only saw a couple does all morning.

The three of us were eating lunch at camp about 2 pm and Marvin decided to drive his truck up top so he could get cell phone service to check in at home. He was going to tell his wife he was headed home early because of the weather. It was only about 1 1/2 miles from camp. He took off and about 3 minutes go by and we heard him shoot. He came back with one of the biggest blacktails any of us had ever seen. Standing right next to the road. I have a photo somewhere.

Stuff like that happens all the time.

I was hunting in the rain one year and the fog moved in thick. I got in my truck to head down the mountain to get below the fog. I came around a corner and a nice 3 pointer is standing off the road. I get out, shoot that buck, and the shot caused another 3 pointer I hadn't seen, to stand up. So I shot him too. I was tagged out in under a minute, right next to the road.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

I never road hunt, but sometimes I like to just take a ride to check out new country.:)

Eel
 
Looking at all the people on the monroe and fishlake thats where all the best hunting takes place
 
LAST EDITED ON Jul-30-11 AT 10:21AM (MST)[p]I guess i'll step up, or step down as some would care for you to believe, and say that i and most of the guys that i hunt with have killed quite a few good bucks while hunting from or near the rig. It's usually not the plan to just ride around until a big one crosses in front of us but we do use the truck to cover lots of country. We like to get out and use our glass and set up our scopes. We may spend 10 minutes or an hour in one spot but then we'll load up and move on to the next good vantage. It works!

We have found that on private property, many of the 100 or so bucks i've taken were on private, that especially later in the season can be good. Bigger bucks come to the does and often times you can cruise the known doe pockets and find a bruiser had moved in with them over night. On public, we have set up and spotted bucks bedded in cover in close to a mile or more off that had been missed by dozens of guys who had the blinders on while driving by.

As a young buck myself, i hated being in the rig and wanted nothing more than to get out and be on top of that far off mountain. I still feel that way at times but for various reasons, i can satisfy my hunting addiction by taking my time closer to the rig. I'm glad that i hunted the way i did for so many years but now i still can take satisfaction spotting my buck from or close to the rig and putting a good clean shot on him.

"Maturity changes a guy" is never a more true saying until you find out that you can't do what you once did!

Joey
 
There are lots of big bucks hit the ground every year shot by road hunters. Not the preferred method for me, but if the opportunity arises I will definitely take advantage of it.
 
I plowed a decent 4 point off the HWY one day, with a truck of mexicano's bangin away right over the top of my head.....not a giant buck by any stretch of the imagination but a nice 24" four point......in a UT general unit thats not half bad

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While guiding in Montana, my hunter's had numerous opportunities to shoot at good bucks within eyesight of various ranch roads. We drove the ranch roads glassing up every nook and hidey hole. On the ranches, if you hiked off the road very far from the truck, the deer would take off at a full run.

I personally don't road hunt. Just not my style. On public land, in NW Wyoming, road hunting is not a real option. I generally don't take my rifle out of the Eberlestock scabbard until I am at least 1-4 miles in on foot. I have shot numerous muley bucks from horse trails, foot trails, game trails and migration paths. I have also shot two decent bucks off a cliff. But that is a different story.

Once in Region H, I did see a guy from Utah whack a big muley buck just above a major USFS road that they spotted from the truck.

A better question for me would be have you ever allowed a hunter to shoot a whitetail buck from a rocking lounge chair in your backyard behind your bunkhouse? The answer would be in the multiples. Usually old guys and some first time hunters. Seven at last count.
 
I've taken exactly one good buck from the "road".

A friend and I were hunting elk in Western Montana and got the end of a logging road where we planned on taking off at first light. We got there a bit early so decided to drink a cup of coffee real quick. Just at legal shooting light we got out of the truck and started getting our gear together. I just happened to look into a shelterwood cut and see 2 WT does bedded in the snow.

I grabbed my pack and looked back to see a great buck standing next to the 2 does. I didnt even hesitate and took the 120 yard shot with my 338 and that was that.

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I'd hunted really hard that whole year and I'd taken many nice whitetails in previous years, but this was a very special buck. Not really the way I envisioned a hunt for an 8.5 year old buck on heavily hunted public land. But, thats the way it happened.
 
264 mag asked me to post this picture. I gues he was going to his hunt area, saw this buck, and was able to get out and get away from the truck for a legal shot and the rest is history as they say!


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>264 mag asked me to post
>this picture. I gues
>he was going to his
>hunt area, saw this buck,
>and was able to get
>out and get away from
>the truck for a legal
>shot and the rest is
>history as they say!
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can't tell which is better, the bumper sticker or the buck! ;)
 
Great name for that picture! This is a 4 point that i spotted from the road, just so happens to be that i shot my "droptine" 2 point about 4 hours before i spotted him. I went and got a buddy who gladly shot it from the dirt road, he rolled down to the road and we cleaned him out on the road. Lucky dog! I'll throw in a pic of my droptine buck. I dont usually shoot the little guys but I liked this one, wish i woulda waited a few hours.

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> 31" and some change
>is what I call that
>picture. 264mag


thats how we got all 4 of our deer last year either we were going back to camp or we were on our way to where we were going to hunt lucky i guess
 
thats what happened to us last year we were on our way back to camp to eat breakfast and had 2 standing down the canyon got one the 2 the next day then mine on monday ended up with 4 out of 5
 
You said "NEVER HAVE,NEVER WILL" make up your mind buddy.

"I absolutely had my head up my azz "
TOPGUN
 
My biggest ever muley-a 13x8 stud back in '91 was spotted from the truck.I got out and killed him.We had just loaded up my partner's buck;a 6x8 cousin of my buck,got back in the truck and drove about 200 yds and I shot mine.Go figure.Like Sage said-going from spot to spot and glassing(whether it be from the truck or hiking to a glassing location)is a VERY effective technique in some areas.
 
Okay I'll admit it. A couple years ago I had an archery tag near my hometown and I only had about an hour of light after work so I drove to a good glassing point to sit with my spotter more to look for the next day. My buddy and I got out of the truck, walked about 30 yards, set up the spotter and started glassing. After about a half hour I heard my buddy go, "psssst". When I looked over at him he was laying on his back pointing straight down the hill from us. I looked down and saw a decent 4 pt. feeding up the hill to us at 40 yards. I have no idea how we never saw him and we had been talking at a normal volume the whole time. Problem was....my bow was in the truck. I crawled out of sight and took my boots off. When I got to the truck I realized that my keys were still in the ignition so when I open the door the beeping sound would chime. I opened it as fast as I could, grabbed the bow and closed the door as quietly as I could and did it all fast enough that only one chime made it. By the time I snuck back over to my buddy the buck was at only 20 yards. I drew my bow and quickly stood up and shot him just as he saw me. He ran across the ravene and died within sight. He's not a giant but we still get a good laugh about that hunt.

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-30-11 AT 08:43PM (MST)[p]topgun-
That's what you said and that's how it came across.
I guess you interprate the voices in your head a bit different than how they come out of your keyboard.
 
In 2006 in WY after a three day trip in the bush and hiking 22 miles we finaly made it back to the truck. After loading up the gear we began making our way to town to get my buddies buck to the meat locker, on the way he starts screaming shooter, shooter!!! I stop get out and smoke a 28" (inside)5x5 that was eating grass 361 yards from the cow path we were driving on. Should I not have shot that buck?
Any hunter that tell's me they wouldnt, I call BS!!
 
Both these bucks were seen and then killed just a few hundred yards from the road.


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There's always next year
 
sicmuley---Who asked you, LOL! I consider road hunting as a lazy person going out all day and driving around looking for an animal, then jumping out and shooting it if you see a good one. That is not what I described or what the majority of people have described on this thread, including the post immediately preceeding this one. It's funny that only Mr. Piehole, who is one big pain in most member's arse, especially mine, said anything until you had to come on here and agree with the troll!!!
 
booner76---No, I would not call what you mentioned road hunting and I sure would have shot that buck too! See my previous post. I consider road hunting intentionally going out and just staying in your vehicle to try and shoot an animal and not just stopping on the way to or from your hunting area when you see a shooter.
 
I was admiring a big buck on someones wall once and he admitted to me he took it off a cemetary.

Road hunting aint that bad. Wonder if anyone here will admitt to taking any animal from a cemetary or golf course or somewhere like that? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask.
 
What bothers you about taking a buck from an area like you mentioned if it's in a legal area and it was shot legally? One of the leases I used to hunt on up here had an 18 hole golf course that split the two 300 tracts and hunting the edges of it was great!
 
>I've been around for a long
>time and don't remember ever
>seeing a big buck by
>the road during deer season.
>I carry my rifle in
>a hard gun case while
>driving so it would have
>to be a really retarded
>big buck for me to
>get a shot.
At the velocities Overton drives, the season is half over before he even makes it to his hunting area. Assuming it was only twenty miles away and he started that way a day early. BTW Ransom, last time road hunting brought better harvest rates than your wilderness death march.



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Ah, what the heck! As long as you didn't get a passthrough and ruin a gravestone the ones in there aren't going to raise a fuss, LOL! I do think I would pass on that though!!!
 
I watched a guy shoot a buck on a tennis court once......the problem was.....the warden was watching too! LOL
 
I do a TON of glassing from my truck and will not pass a good buck seen from the road if I can safely and legally kill him. I fail to see the difference in shooting a deer going to and from a hunting area and shooting a deer glassed from the road from a mile or two away or just sitting on your azz and driving all day long waiting for one to cross in front of you, hunt how you want but to question the ethics of any of these methods over the other is just semantics.

For the guys who say never I can only trust you are telling the truth and say more power to you for sticking with your ethical standard, but if you make exceptions for the on the way to and from a spot or for well only if it's a big one or whatever then your answer really isn't NO is it.

If you wanna argue the lack of effort then you must be able to say you wouldn't on the flat beginning walk into a rugged wilderness on opening day you see the biggest buck of your life and don't shoot it cuz you didn't put out the effort yet and you will pass and come back after a 25 mile death march/run into rugged terrain to hope he's there.

Some people need to think before they post about what their true opinion is. When you post about something you feel strongly about it often comes across as holier than thou (intentional or not). I do not except myself from this as I have been guilty on occasion but some tend to do it more than others.

Bill

Look out Forkie, FTW is watching us!
 
Road hunting in a spot and stalk method in certain areas can be very productive depending on weather, hunting pressure, etc. Antelope hunting for example.
I realize this method isn't for everyone especially the elite hunters. In all honesty I can't stand being stuck inthe truck all day, but sometimes it's all I can do while toting the whole family around.
In 2006 I took an old heavy buck from a dirt road just after a heavy snow storm with my 6 and 8 yr old daughters bouncing around in the back seat. I will admit this is not success you can depend on year to year while hunting this way.
 
A "target of opportunity" presents itself, I will shoot it from the road.

I hate to do it, but somtimes I have to get out and use the hood for a rest......it usually chips your paint.

".....but by God, I never said a word to a pig!"
 
i was hunting with my friend in dixie nf,when a deer ran across the two track. we get out and my friend looks thru his scope and says it just a spike. the deer was standing behind a clump of aspens.i tell him to shoot ,it was the last day of the season. he gets off the road and drops the deer.we go up and can,t believe our eyes.,it,s a 7x10.thirty one outside spread,weighing over 300 lbs on our friends ranch cattle scales.go figure.
 
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booner76---I didn't think you were picking on me and I had no problem with your post!


huntindad4---I do feel that your post was made directly at mine and this IS directed at you. I said I do not road hunt and then stated after that when people started saying what they do what I specifically considered road hunting and what I didn't. If you don't agree with that I have no problem with that, but I do have a problem when you tell me that I have a holier than thou attitude because that's BS based on what I stated and the way you responded. In fact,IMHO your post sounded more like the latter than mine when I feel you called me out and I think you felt the same way by making that last sentence remark! I apologize if that is not what you intended, but it sure seemed like it to me! I will say again though that anybody that strictly drives around ALL day glassing from their truck to jump out and shoot an animal closeby ain't my cup of tea and it sounds like quite a few on this thread probably have the same attitude. What you stated is completely different, so I guess semantics can start an argument a lot of times for no real reason if things are discussed at length.
 
One of my dad's hunting buddies growing up had an old Bronco for his hunting rig. One day he was road hunting his own property and a nice buck was spotted. He jump out, laid his gun over the hood and fired three times just to watch the buck walk away. Back in camp he swore up and down that his gun was off. He shot perfectly in camp scratching his head over that buck all day long. It wasn't until the next day that we found three bullet holes in his hood with about 15 bullet fragment holes in the side of his Bronco. The truck was on enough tilt that his scope cleared the hood but not the barrel. We still give him crap about that one.
 
TOPGUN suppose you tell me what the difference in your scenario and that of the original post? I'm sure its apparent to you but it isn't me. I did not intend to offend anyone with my post but it seems to me the two have more in common than not.I know the intent is different. Sitting in the truck seems no more lazy than sitting in a tree stand or blind except for heat/ac. I stated I was occasionally guilty of posting my ethics on something prior to thinking the whole thing through and don't see how that makes me holier than thou but thee are some here who do it often.

Nobody wants to be labeled a roadhunter but if you hint in most if not all the ways describedd above I don't see any huge ethical affronts.

Topgun my apologies for any offense taken from my comments above but it is simply my view. I do not comment normally with the intent to offend a person but if I disagree or do not fully understand his intent I will post without full regard for everyones feelers.

Bill
 
I don't really know how I can make it any clearer than I have already, but here goes. If a person goes out with full intent to just drive aound all day looking to shoot any easily accessible deer near the road with basically no work involved, I have a problem with calling that hunting and don't do it. On the other hand, if a person is going to or from a hunt location and happens to run across an animal they have a tag for in a legal area like a lot of the guys are mentioning, I have no problem with that. If conditions are so bad that I would have to stay in my truck to stay warm with a heater going like you mentioned, I probably would be indoors staying out of the weather. I learned my lesson on that scenario one year and went out when I shouldn't have and damn near lost the right side of my nose to frostbite. No animal is worth that and hunting one out of a vehicle just to stay comfy isn't my idea of hunting. Sorry if we differ on this, but that's my just my preferences. Please be aware that I'm not telling you not to do it or any other way you want to hunt, as long as it's legal, whether I like that method or not. Have a good one---MIKE
 
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264mag asked that I post a picture of another nice buck he shot while scouting from his truck. For some reason the file photo, although it came through in my email, will not copy onto this site and just shows a big black blank box. Sorry Walt!!!
 
LAST EDITED ON Jul-31-11 AT 07:49PM (MST)[p]Personally I would never shoot game from the road or trail. That's what they make wheelers for. On a wheeler you can get almost anywhere people hike and you can pack a cooler plus the front cargo rack makes a fine rest. If you plan it right you can drive right up to the game & load it on your bike. Worst case you may have to use a long rope and drag the carcass to a flat spot. I don't generally give out hunting tips but you all seem so confused.

Slick

"The Road goes on forever & the Party never Ends"
 
Everybody to his own! I don't use those either and at 64 in two weeks I still pack everything out on my back. When I can't do that any longer I'll quit and start doing photography instead!
 
+1 topgun hes got an alligator mouth comin out of a hummingbird a55 Never heard such an arrogant person oh wait his puppet buddy on here is just as bad. Sweet buck dude.
 
BuzzH that is an awesome buck. Same thing happened to my uncle a few years ago. I was 3 miles from the truck at sunrise and he was 30 feet. I got skunked and he shot a 6x6 140" buck. Not right I tell you. Guess I'll start sleeping in and drinking coffee.
 
This thread has more BS than a Russian radio station!

I had no idea we had so many members of Congress on here!

".....but by God, I never said a word to a pig!"
 
Road huntin on my horse an hour after daylight on opening morning. He was standing out in the open 330 yards from the road with no cover for a thousand yards. 4X4 right at 30". A hundred quads must have roared past him in the dark.
Wes
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I just wanna see more "Road Hunting Big Bucks"!!!!! More pictures please



Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high, keep your eyes fixed to where the trail meets the sky...
 
TOPGUN I havent stopped laughing for the last 20 minutes!!! That was GREAT!!
 
TOPGUN,
I couldn't let NONYA call you a hypocrite and get away with it. There was a post a while back about honey holes where he bashed the T-U guys pretty good and said he hated that site. Well, guess who just posted up his pics on T-U with a new username. you guessed right, NONYA himself. Unless someone else has his same pack and same set of horns sitting under his mallard mounts in the living room. Funny stuff.

Hunt Hard. Shoot Straight. Kill Clean. Apologize to No One.
 
I am not a road hunter and I hate quads, especially those off established trails, but there are times for road hunting.

Do any of you that say you don't road hunt big bucks, road hunt antelope? If you have a decent density of roads, it makes sense to drive, glass, drive, glass and then find one and stalk it. What if a booner lope was only 300 yards off the road?

If your mule deer unit is like some antelope units (high density of roads with open terrain and limited tags), I think it might make sense to road hunt it for the best chance at success.

My favorite way to hunt is to backpack into an out of the way basin, but I shot a big buck that I spotted from a road on a unit with an amazing density of roads. I tracked and killed him 8 hours after I spotted him (he crossed a road 4 times), but that is another story.
 
LAST EDITED ON Aug-02-11 AT 11:09AM (MST)[p]Teryn---Thanks! I don't let the dude bother me, as the more he comes back and posts the bigger azz he makes of himself most of the time!!! You would think by now that any adult would realize everybody is laughing at him, rather than with him, and that's all I'll say!!!

Did you get moved to the big city okay? We are looking forward to the 2b hunt in early November and I'll drop you an email about what we have lined up so far.
 
Teryn that may be the funnies thing i've seen in several years on this site!!! I remember the T-U bashing Nonya did then to post up on their site......priceless!

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"A hundred quads must have roared past him in the dark."
Wes

That's cause the quad guys pass on willow horned dinks.

(you can take a joke can't ya?)

Slick

"The Road goes on forever & the Party never Ends"
 
Tell me You Puzzies that have hunted the Book Cliffs have never Road Hunted!



For GAWDS Sakes Guys,We Got Kids on this Site,Some of them are 65 years Old!:D

I don't care if they're big or small!
If they throw lead I like em all!
:p
 
This buck was standing 60 yards off a two track when it was spined by a 1st time hunter, with a moron for a husband. The "shooter" was about 10 feet from the hood of my truck and at the shot hit the dirt harder than the buck (because of a severe case of scope biteitis). I watched from the comfort of the drivers seat and then jumped out to clean up the mess.

The write up in eastmans was a bit off...

....and yes I am still bitter...:)

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This puzzy also hunted the CO side of the book cliffs last year. I road hunted the road hunting capitol of the world...a lot. A lot...with little luck. So, one evening I took a hike with my spotting scope and glassed up a nice buck. This buck (incidentally) was standing just off a two track, I put the sneak on it and shot it...then walked back to my truck and loaded the deer whole. Go figure...
 
my neighbor showed my dad and me a video of one of the biggest muley bucks i've ever seen. a monster typical, 32"+, deep forks, heavy, tall. i mean he was a monster. it was just off a main dirt road to a tourist destination. it is heavily hunted and i know there were several hunters that were looking for this particular buck. in the video, he was standing within bow range of the road, you can hear this guys kids talking, slamming doors, laughing and so on. this old bruiser just stood and watched. finally, my neighbor chased him off the main road so somebody didn't come by and whack him. the best part was, there was some hunters rig parked right there too. the guy was looking for the deer and the buck was at his pickup...

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my dad killed this 340" bull last year just off the main highway while he and his partner were driving to town to get camp groceries. there were probably 30 head in his herd, and they were literally a hundred yards from the road when spotted.
 
So some of you are saying that driving to or from your hunting area you see a nice buck, you would just drive by as it would be considered road hunting? yea right!
I am big enough to say I have shot some good bucks from the roads. I do a lot of driving and a lot of glassing and if I find a decent buck, we go get it. And I agree with another post that bad knees and bad health can make a difference about how much time a person spends in a truck "hunting". Someone said that if they couldn't get out and hunt, they would quit hunting and stay home. I have a fused ankle, back, and bad knees and sometimes hunting "from" the road is about the only way I can spend the time doing what I love to do. My wife is handicapped and so that also plays into spending time driving and glassing. She is allowed to shoot from the vehicle, but has never done it. I would guess that over 50% of all animals killed are taken from driving along the roads, if not higher.
Go ahead and grill me now.... I can take it..
I have packed my share of animals out on my back in my day, but I am not ashamed to say I didn't have to pack a few here and there...
 
I knew this thread would spark some rage. However, I agree with antlerrick. I love backcountry hunting but oddly enough some of my best hunting memories were from the porch or in the truck with my great grandfather. Nothing will ever change that. And like others have said, why do you care if people hunt from roads? It keeps the backcountry less populated. Now that I hunt a lot of backcountry, I encourage everybody to road hunt so I have the woods to myself.

Obviously it's a whole seperate ball game if you're shooting animals off private or otherwise off limits land. Then I have a problem with you.
 
+1 antlerrick, well said!

Why would i give up the thing in this world i most crave doing just because i can no longer do it the way i used to? I don't need to kill another buck! I do feel i need to get out and glass the other side for a big ol buck though. I can do this just as well from around my rig as 10 miles back in.

Joey
 
To go one step further, some areas can be better hunted driving and then glassing. A good example is the Henry's. You can really cover some country by moving from ridge to ridge and glassing up and down. There is no way my body could cover that much country. Some areas that is not an option, but if it is the best way to hunt, so be it. And like Joey said, "I don't NEED to kill another buck", but if I can find a good mature animal, I will go after him. It has to be better than sitting home and slowly dying!
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy a good hike to get into some good country that I can't glass, and if it means packing it out, I am game.
 
Idabow how is that cool of your neighbor too run that buck off hes no hometown hero for doin it if he did that to me and I was tryin to stalk that buck hed get a highcountry a%% whoopin you dont shaft someones stalk thats totally wrong and unetheical on your neighbors part. But on the flip side thats a nice bull.
 
well, the guys weren't there, near this pickup. they had unloaded some fourwheelers and were out hunting this buck, if they knew he was a stones throw from the pickup, they wouldn't have left. i agree, i would never intentionally disturb any hunters stalk. he just didn't want to see a magnificant buck like that (of which there are very few animals of that caliber left in the area) get whacked by some idiot. i have to agree with him, i would have loved to tag him, but as a hunter, its bittersweet to see one like that get away. he's still out there passing on those genes and haunting others' dreams. thank you, my dad was pretty pleased with the bull.
 
I am not one to hunt from the road but when your driving to your hunting destination, anythings game that is legal.

5 years ago I was hunting the manti late season elk hunt. Dad and I scouted and hunted hard for a solid week. We turned up nothing but cows and rag horns. The second to the last morning, we chain up the truck tires and tooke a drive up a two track road with over a foot of snow on it. We were heading to a canyon that had limited access and figured this would be the best way to get close to the hunting area because the deep snow has a way of sucking the life out of you when you hike in it day after day. We rounded the bend in the road right at first light and dad looks up on his side of the canyon and says stop the truck! I stop the truck, look up the hill side and see over 70 elk staring at us from about 300 yards. I'm in my noisy diesel, so I turn it off, pull the 300 ultra mag out, lay it between the truck and the open door just as the herd gets jittery and starts moving out. I scan the herd and the second to the last elk was a 6 point. I had enough time for one shot before he disappeared into the trees. We jump back in the truck because it is -2 degrees f. acoording to the temp display in my truck. (Definately felt like -2) We waited an hour before looking for him, ended up finding him dead over in the next canyon where there was no road!

I don't consider that a road hunt because of what it took to get him out of that hell hole he died in!
 
Oh i got ya idabow my bad I misread the post ya the only bad thing about wackin a buck that big is ya cant find his horns that coming spring. I thought he scared the buck bein a jerk but ya cleared it up for me again sweet archery bull.
 
>The mirrors make excellent dead rests,
>especially if you shut the
>truck off!


+1
 
>Road huntin' is the bomb especially
>when your knees are shot.
> pc

+1

besides that Paul.. It's the only way I know of to carry around the cooler.

You ever try to carry a ice chest full of beer and a rifle??? It aint easy!
 
>A "target of opportunity" presents itself,
>I will shoot it from
>the road.
>
>I hate to do it, but
>somtimes I have to get
>out and use the hood
>for a rest......it usually chips
>your paint.

+1 I hate when that happens but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.. I have dumped a few critters using the hood.. but it works best if you turn off the engine.. much more steady
 
I have shot some from the road and some from about 2 miles from the road. There a hell of lot easier to get in the truck when there closer to the road! However, I prefer hunting away from the road and enjoy doing so, but I wont knock the way a guy hunts or chooses to do so. The more people hunt the road, the less people will wind up in my secret little spot!
Its all to apparent, and this is not intended for any specific person, that some people cant and refuse to understand that we all have opinions and we are all different and we should embrace that. I say to all you road hunters, good luck and keep at it. Its not your fault they built a road through prime hunting ground. For me, I will do both when its warrented. If a big ole buck is standing off the road when Im cruising to my trailhead, then I probably, if I shoot strait, will not wind up to my destination. Good luck to all, fall is just around the corner.
 
Some pretty funny reading. Not exactly a "road" story but a friend of mine shot a deer from his hot tub. His wife was pretty torqued over the whole thing...something about "killing the mood". Only guy I know who had a gun rack on his hot tub!
 
I missed a 170 class buck with a hawken muzzleloader when I was in high school right off the road but other than that never seen anything worth setting my coffee down for..
 
IMO road hunting is one of the laziest things you can do, but if I happen to be driving to a spot and happen to see a shooter standing within shooting distance of the road I'd shoot him (only if it is a safe and legal shot). A good example of this is one of my friends had a bull tag here in Nevada and was driving on the road to camp and a bull jumped a fence and was heading towards the road, the guy hopped out and dropped him. He had shot at the bull a few days before and had missed, but to conclude the bull he killed was a 7x7 that scored 407. I can almost guarentee that almost all of you would have done the exact same thing to shoot a monter deer, elk, moose, or what ever.

"Elk dont know how many feet a horse had" - Bear Claw
 
You guys keep your butts walking, and push um to the road. I got 12 bucks over 30" all shot by a two track road.
 

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