....Saskatoon Truck Hunting...post 20 update...

canadian hunter312 said:
Farmland around here is pretty much fields with fence rows/tree lines dividing fields with bush lots ranging from a few acres to a couple hundred acres scattered about. It's just wide open fields out where you are so it's not practical to walk in search of deer?
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Yeah, it’s wide open stubble fields stretching to the horizon. I usually hunt solo, so for whitetail I’ll drive along ravines, spend a lot of time in the truck looking through the spotting scope at deer 2 miles away, or drive to abandoned yards and still hunt them.

I used to live in the Vegreville area and hunted there for a few years, what you describe is similar to the landscape there, definitely better whitetail country than sw sask.
 
Obviously you non stubble jumpers even been to a Real Saskatchewan Rifle Range before now have you?
You know the ones where they have the bench set up and the bench is actually a door with or without wind up windows from a 57 ford F-150.
It may or may not open, but you dont know that till you need to go and check your targets ;)
What ever VIC, its about spending time with family and friends and getting in the out of doors.

Spent a couple weeks in Kindersly and the thats how the farmers I spent time with did it.
They drove the property they cultivated and called their buddies when they spotted animals on their land to either tell them to get out there or to be told to go and get it cause they where busy harvesting or working on broken equipment.

To each their own.
Rob
 
has anyone mentioned that it's illegal to shoot from a vehicle in Sk without a cripple permit from SERM...or the "shoot along/across a road" law?

there are a lot of acreage people living just outside of Toon...mind where yer aimin.
 
I stay in the muzzleloader zone during the White Tail rifle season. If friends wanna go out then I’ll tag along with them with a rifle. By staying away from the rifle zones I have less competition though the land I’m hunting on is heavily posted and only a select few have access so I don’t see many except the occasional truck hunter drive by but I’m several hundred yards away. I wear a white jacket and a blaze orange toque when I’m walking to and from my spot(s) too many trigger happy fools out there.
 
Wow! Ok, time for a couple of additions to the story.

Rob N., no trucks were hurt during the hunt. There was a 1984 Delta 88 that offered up a nice broadside but it had a few too many salt scars to its finish. And it retreated into a scrap yard when spotted so there was a pretty good chance a shot would wound a lawn tractor or desolate manure spreader.

My bro had one day to hunt. He and the wife work full time and have three boys under 7 - its a busy household. Had to prove I still had it in me and changed a diaper for the first time since my vow never to do it again.

Someone mentioned getting pissed on and no I don't mean a Golden Shower at the Senator hotel. I am from the West Coast and it rains there a lot. It was great to be out in -5 weather wearing an orange toque and orange hoodie. Only crap part was that the hoodie wouldn't go over my parka so it got cold fast as my brother was wearing a white snowsuit with an orange safety vest and wanted to keep his window open all the time. Good thing bro had one of those new fangled "detacheable magazines" as we were stopped and checked by a CO. He let us go after chugging a 26er of Crown with us and fining me $250 for being from BC. I think he was just pissed because I didn't offer him any weed.

We did a fair amount of walking as well. Esp. along the edges of long abandoned farms - pretty cool spots if not a little spooky with the windowless homesteads. I really enjoyed it and as others have said, it is great to be with family.

I think that about covers things. Oh snap, one more thing, can anyone tell me why you SK hunters (like my brother) favour the 270? I mean the 30-06 is clearly the superior cartridge.
 
I think that about covers things. Oh snap, one more thing, can anyone tell me why you SK hunters (like my brother) favor the 270? I mean the 30-06 is clearly the superior cartridge.
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Nice follow up, after my hunt I'm 300WM convert, I used the 308, no issues but I can see the advantage of the 300. Cheers
 
BeaverMeat said:
Truck hunting. In this area it's reserved for lazy hunters, elderly hunters, and "it's the last day of season and I sat in the blind, in the shack, pushed push and I haven't got anything yet" hunters. I'm always the last kind.

You can spot a seasoned truck hunter at the gun shop. They won't buy anything unless it has a detachable mag. Why does it need a mag? So the DNRs won't catch you with a loaded rifle in your truck.
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Also, "It's a million degrees below zero, but I already have permission from the wife"
 
dan belisle said:
This, for starters. Then there is the fact that in some rural areas truck hunting IS the only reasonable way to get between hunting areas. Never managed to bag a truck though. - dan
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You know that old joke about your dog running away out here and being able to see it for three days? Well the same holds true for spotting deer. It can be a long distance between permissable lands to hunt. I’ll take the truck and bypass the places I haven’t acquired or yet asked permission to hunt.
 
VanIsleCam said:
Wow! Ok, time for a couple of additions to the story.

we were stopped and checked by a CO. He let us go after chugging a 26er of Crown with us and fining me $250 for being from BC. I think he was just pissed because I didn't offer him any weed.
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What! f:P:2: This didn't ruin your trip? Did he fine you before or after the whiskey? Was the whiskey an attempt to get him to tear up the ticket?
 
Truck hunting, the memories...
I grew up on the South Boundary of CFB Suffield. It's at least as flat as Sask at it's flattest. You can hunt on foot, but the hunting spots are miles apart. Drive up close ( 1/4 - 1/2 mile), do a decent sneak and try to bag one. There really is no other way, it's just too far apart.
I moved to the other side of town and now I'm right on the creek; much more enjoyable, the only thing that gets started is the Massey Ferguson at recovery time.
 
Butcherbill said:
"Had to prove I still had it in me and changed a diaper for the first time since my vow never to do it again."

That's taking one for the team man, don't know it I could do that.
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It was a game time decision but I'd offered to watch the kid....Whoops!
 
Robert Nicholson said:
How about we start a thread showing pictures of bullet holes in trucks?

A friend of mine (not me, honest!) threw his loaded rifle onto the bench seat of his truck, something snagged the trigger and fired a shot thru the other door.
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The law is: unload the gun before it goes in the vehicle. My rule in company is: in case you forgot to comply with that law, the gun goes in butt first, so if you have an accident it's pointing at yourself.
 
Truck hunting is all fine and dandy for the lazy people who don’t want to put in the time to go scouting.

Just never seems to fail that they are hanging guns out the window driving on property that’s posted with no hunting signs...mine...while I’m hunting it.

Have yet to bag a truck though
 
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