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Why is it that every time I go into the woods these days I see more and more people on ATVs? Don't people come with legs any more?

The illegal cutting of trails is starting to really scar the landscape too, particularly in the alpine parts of B.C. where once that thin ground cover is chewed up by quad tires, it never ever recovers and starts a permanent path to erosion down to bare rock.

We have to get licensing in for these vehicles so you can report a plate number when you see a violation.
 
My theory is a combination of too much money, too much laziness, and too many cityfolk that think you can roar up beside a deer and it's going to sit there waiting to be shot.:rolleyes:
 
i see this trend also .every year more and more atv riders in all age groups .im probably one in a very few who actually use my legs to get me where i wanna go in the woods .
 
completely agree with the registration and licensing of atv .......
but for a different reason .... i would like to easily insure my atv to drive along the side of the road and plow out drive ways and parking lots legally .
this is next to impossible right now to do right now in b.c.
 
These have been a thorn in my side for a long time already.
I can see a use for recovering a dead animal, but to go hunting on them....no way.
Let's make hunting what it really is. a way to see the outdoors from our legs and feet, not some motorized contraption.
Eagleye.
 
Need to think of the older crowd here gang.
If not for the atv's, some would probably stay home.
Work injuries or health issues would keep some of these fine folks from enjoying
some fresh air.
No fun in that. Nothing wrong in my opinion to putzsy around out in the sticks
on some old roads. Now tearing up a mountain side or a farmers muddy field, that's a
different story. Lots of these shinnanigans going on around here and it is frowned upon.
Hopefully they'll crack down on the rowdies and leave those minding their own business alone.
 
Rossbayo said:
Why is it that every time I go into the woods these days I see more and more people on ATVs? Don't people come with legs any more?

The illegal cutting of trails is starting to really scar the landscape too, particularly in the alpine parts of B.C. where once that thin ground cover is chewed up by quad tires, it never ever recovers and starts a permanent path to erosion down to bare rock.

We have to get licensing in for these vehicles so you can report a plate number when you see a violation.
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I never run into ATV's because I hunt in the deep timber or private land where there is no access for ATV's. I have no use for them, and as other members quoted, "people are just plain lazy". Walking and stalking are my methods and I can't think of any other way to hunt and enjoy the outdoors to harvest game. My 2 cents.
 
ATVs have their uses, just like #######s, which some of these 'holy-than-thou' comments say there's a few #######s here.

Come up to my moose camp, and tell me you could hunt there without an ATV... you shoot all your moose along the roadside I guess...
 
I had a bit of an epiphany in an outhouse a while back. I was staring at the complete lack of grafitti, vandalism and bullet holes that I generally have always seen in other outhouses. I realized that the difference was that the outhouse was at a site that you could only get to by a moderate hike and this had kept the a$$holes away.

There is a fair amount of trashy people out in the woods these days, I really hate it when the average public see these guys when they hunt and think we are all like that.
 
If there are too may guys on ATV's it means you are hunting too close to civilization. You need to get back further into the bush to avoid these guys.

To do that I recommend an ATV



To solve your "problem" you have to become part of the "problem".
 
In a nutshell, there's just too damn many people.

Hear me out for a minute: My grandfather and father hunted elk W of me, with horses and on foot. Where they used horses, we drove to, then hunted on foot from there. It wasn't easy, and required chains, a winch, young backs and a sense of adventure, but we never left the trail (all one of them)with the "ox".
I quit hunting in that area when they, "improved" the road. A few years later they paved it. Now it may as well be part of Calgary, and yes, it looks like a quad racetrack, and yes, it darn near made me puke to see it.

Point being, when my Dad hunted there, Calgary was a small city. When I hunted there, it was a large city, but you still had to "want" to get to the area. Now Calgary's a big city, and the road is paved right to the campground. "Campground", being an operative word.

I even see it in my corner of SE Ab. The population has simply exploded the last few years and it's getting harder and harder to swing your arms without hitting a 1/2 dozen cidiots.

Bottom line, I still hunt every single year in isolated areas, as many of us do, but as we all know, if you want to do that, it's going to take a heck of a lot more planning and effort than it used to. I started planning this years hunts in earnest last winter..........and I know exactly where I'm going.

You know, secret creek, right beside, you can't get there from here, and just left of if you've gotten here, you've earned it. :)

I'm afraid the unfortunate truth is with so many people wanting to get out of the ever expanding city's their footprint is going to increasingly ruin the landscape.
Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge residents wanting to enjoy our province. While I do have a real problem with, "ripper types", and holier than thou horse people for that matter, it's more a case of I mourn what was and dread what's coming.
I don't know what the answer is. Well, actually I do. Cidiots only move in herds, its like they're scared when they're not pressed by masses of humanity. They also think the world ends where the pavement ends. Maybe that's the key?
 
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ATVs have their uses, just like a**holes, which some of these 'holy-than-thou' comments say there's a few a**holes here.

Come up to my moose camp, and tell me you could hunt there without an ATV... you shoot all your moose along the roadside I guess...
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Hell, is there anywhere left where you could moose hunt by foot and have a real chance of bagging one?
Most here struggle hard shooting a moose on day trips using a quad.
 
[While I do have a real problem with, "ripper types", and holier than thou horse people for that matter,[/QUOTE]

When I was younger and use to backpack around the foothillsa and mountains it was always the horse people who seemed to leave the most garbage, of coarse there were no quads then. I don't think/hope many of people disrespecting the environment and those of us that use it are hunters though. The real problem is a lot of young people just don't give a s**t whether they're on a quad, bike or in a 4x4.
 
burnt_servo said:
completely agree with the registration and licensing of atv .......
but for a different reason .... i would like to easily insure my atv to drive along the side of the road and plow out drive ways and parking lots legally .
this is next to impossible right now to do right now in b.c.
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Well it is law that ATV's need insurance in BC if you're going to ride it on the logging roads. But that would cost you around 800.00 for the year.
 
thumper1 said:
Well it is law that ATV's need insurance in BC if you're going to ride it on the logging roads. But that would cost you around 800.00 for the year.
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its about $250 for the year for 2m liability or if you get a bcwf membership liability insurance is included but only for when you are hunting or fishing
 
Weird Thats what they quoted my wife when she went to insure our ATV 250.00 would certainly be cheaper. Its cheaper if you join a club though that much I do know. Who do you insure through broncoo if you dont mind me asking?
 
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