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PredHunter
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My wife and I were in Wyoming over the weekend trying to get her two antelope. Twice on Saturday while hunting over a mile off a two track. Our hunt was disturbed by guys driving off the roads thru our hunting area, trying to get close to the 400 antelope, we were hunting.
The first guy was a couple of older gentleman trying to retrieve a goat. I asked them politely if they knew it was a possible $5,000 fine and 6 months in jail for driving off the two tracks? They said they didn't know and abliged by taking their truck back over the hill to the two track.
The second time I was going to walk out and get my cart to haul one of her goats out, while she kept hunting. I got about 1/4 mile away when I turned around to see two ATV's driving up to her. So I hurried back to her( not knowing what was up) It was two fat guys on ATV's that came down to ask if we been doing any good. I came unwound and said "You know we been burned once by guys driving around out here. It is against the law.(I left alot out of this) I would appreciate it if you guys got the hell out of here and let us hunt.
SO I called the BLM ranger yesterday and he stated it is up to a $5,000 fine and 6 months in jail. He also said this was a bad year for it and was going to in the future be writing more and bigger fines for it in an attempt to put a stop to it. I asked why he doesn't post signs. He stated he does but they last less then a week before someone decides to shoot it off the psot or steals it.
So my point of this whole post is to inform those that DON'T know the ruls but it is against the law to drive off the established roads on BLM with any vehicle.
The first guy was a couple of older gentleman trying to retrieve a goat. I asked them politely if they knew it was a possible $5,000 fine and 6 months in jail for driving off the two tracks? They said they didn't know and abliged by taking their truck back over the hill to the two track.
The second time I was going to walk out and get my cart to haul one of her goats out, while she kept hunting. I got about 1/4 mile away when I turned around to see two ATV's driving up to her. So I hurried back to her( not knowing what was up) It was two fat guys on ATV's that came down to ask if we been doing any good. I came unwound and said "You know we been burned once by guys driving around out here. It is against the law.(I left alot out of this) I would appreciate it if you guys got the hell out of here and let us hunt.
SO I called the BLM ranger yesterday and he stated it is up to a $5,000 fine and 6 months in jail. He also said this was a bad year for it and was going to in the future be writing more and bigger fines for it in an attempt to put a stop to it. I asked why he doesn't post signs. He stated he does but they last less then a week before someone decides to shoot it off the psot or steals it.
So my point of this whole post is to inform those that DON'T know the ruls but it is against the law to drive off the established roads on BLM with any vehicle.