Likely Tables

califhuntn · Jun 13, 2018

Hello all. I drew the Likely Tables archery antelope tag. Does anyone know if the bucks are rutting in early August. I'm hoping to be able to spot and stalk along with decoying. Thanks.

Snoopdogg · Jun 13, 2018

Yes, they are rutting then.

Mallardslayer82 · Jun 22, 2018

When I had the tag 2 years ago they weren't quite rutting. I think it was a little early. I did the decoy thing. It wasn?t working. They would be interested in it but no closer than 100 yards. I had a antelope and a cow. Never used the cow as I didn't hunt where the cattle were but if u do it's a good choice. My advice is get a ground blind. Find where they are watering and set up. They will come! I did spot ant stalk and got close a couple times but I'm sure u know that is a tall task but it can be done. There is also alturas ranch that u can pay a trespass fee if u want to go that route. They have a lot of goats and saw a guy kill a 84? off there! But plenty of animals on public as well! Shoot me a PM is u want any more info!

nocal · Jun 22, 2018

I don't believe you can use a domestic livestock image as a blind in Kali.

Livetahunt · Jun 22, 2018

Is it ok to FART in California

Bwht4x4 · Jun 22, 2018

I think that law is only for goose hunting.

6x7 · Jun 22, 2018

Ruts in full swing by seconds season rifle

Bwht4x4 · Jun 22, 2018

>I don't believe you can use
>a domestic livestock image as
>a blind in Kali.

Just so everyone can read the F&G Code section;

California Code, Fish and Game Code - FGC ? 3502

It is unlawful to use any mammal (except a dog) or an imitation of a mammal as a blind in approaching or taking game birds.

Horniac · Jun 22, 2018

It is not legal to sit water either...

? 730. Camping Near or Occupying Wildlife Watering Places.
(a) Camping/Occupying Defined. For purposes of this Section, camping/occupying is defined as establishing or inhabiting a camp; resting; picnicking; sleeping; parking or inhabiting any motor vehicle or trailer; hunting; or engaging in any other recreational activity for a period of more than thirty (30) minutes at a given location.
(b) Wildlife Watering Places Defined. For purposes of this Section, wildlife watering places are defined as waterholes, springs, seeps and man-made watering devices for wildlife such as guzzlers (self-filling, in-the-ground water storage tanks), horizontal wells and small impoundments of less than one surface acre in size.
(c) Prohibitions.
(1) Camping/Occupying is prohibited within 200 yards of the following:

A) Any guzzler or horizontal well for wildlife on public land within the State of California.
(B) Any of the wildlife watering places on public land within the boundary of the California Desert Conservation Area as depicted on the Bureau of Land Management maps of ?Calif. Federal Public Lands Responsibility,? ?Calif. Desert Conservation Area? and the new ?Desert District, B.L.M.?
(2) Camping/Occupying is prohibited within one-quarter mile of the following wildlife watering places:

Blah, blah, blah...

Horniac

mod700 · Jun 22, 2018

I've been up there the last 2 years for period 1 opener, they weren't rutting yet.
Mike

Mallards_Only · Jun 23, 2018

I actually spoke with the GW up there at the time when I drew about the sitting water law. Not surprisingly, he knew nothing about the law but also indicated to me that he wouldn't enforce it in that situation. Like everything else in CA, the law is a joke. If you follow it to the letter, you would also be breaking the law by hunting within 200 yds of a puddle caused by rain. If you want to sit water, I'd talk to the GW up there and get some clarification from him. Not sure if the same guy is still working up there as I drew several yrs ago.

HuntnProf · Jun 23, 2018

PM sent

Snoopdogg · Jun 23, 2018

My bad. I just realized you drew archery--can't speak to that , but others have chimed in.

When my bros drew in 2002, first rifle, they were ruttin. Got see see several duking it out before we killed 2 of them. Now, I have this tag too, finally.

Horniac · Jun 23, 2018

>If you follow
>it to the letter, you
>would also be breaking the
>law by hunting within 200
>yds of a puddle caused
>by rain.
>

...only if you were hunting within 200 yards of the puddle for over 30 minutes haha!

I agree that law is a joke. Well intended but there should be a carve out for the archery antelope hunters IMO. With thst said, the law is the law and everyone should be playing under the same set of rules - not sure I would blatantly flaunt it by settng up a blind at a waterhole despite what the game warden told me verbally about enforcng it...

Horniac