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Crappy Tire has a set of Motorola radios on for 69.99. They claim an eight km range, 22 channels and 99 sub channels. It includes charger and 2 NiCad rechargaeble batteries. Has anyone experience with these radios?
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Go to Costco and buy the Cobra set for 79.99, they have a 16km range, a VOX, ear piece and short boom mike included, plus recharger and batteries. This is a better package and it works. I use it fishing and while sheep hunting in the Rockies, your partner spots and directs you in, distance was 3-4km with tree cover until we broke out into the rock face.
 
ringo said:
Go to Costco and buy the Cobra set for 79.99, they have a 16km range, a VOX, ear piece and short boom mike included, plus recharger and batteries. This is a better package and it works.
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X2. We use Cobras on our property and despite some hilly and rocky terrain they work very well.
 
Some regs are relaxed, you can use electronic calls for certain species now however there is a new reg about shooting off a provincially maintained highways (you have to be 15m from the middle on a 2 lane) and illegal guiding is getting seriously looked at. Archery, rimfire, centrefire and shotgun use has been clearly defined on p16.
 
ringo said:
Go to Costco and buy the Cobra set for 79.99, they have a 16km range, a VOX, ear piece and short boom mike included, plus recharger and batteries. This is a better package and it works. I use it fishing and while sheep hunting in the Rockies, your partner spots and directs you in, distance was 3-4km with tree cover until we broke out into the rock face.
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Do you find that when your partner is directing you that it is hard to keep him in sight so you can see his hand signals. Over 3-4 kms binoculars are a must. :)
 
I got a set of Cobra's from the state's just before they became available and legal in Canada. They have been great, I'm not sure any makes tell the truth about range but they reach a lot further than the old frs radios ever did. In open country or open water they reach a long way.
 
Do you find that when your partner is directing you that it is hard to keep him in sight so you can see his hand signals
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Naw! I use GPS and topo maps, when I'm really lost, flares and smoke work well!
 
Setanta said:
Why not? said:
ringo said:
............. while sheep hunting in the Rockies, your partner spots and directs you in, distance was 3-4km with tree cover until we broke out into the rock face.
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That is illegal up this way. :roll:

Ted
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Forgive my ignorance but what part is Illegal?
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Using radio communication to assist a hunter in stalking an animal.
 
We have been using radios for quite some time while deer hunting,They work quite well when you knock something down to call in some help to get it out.My wife likes to stay out as late as posible and when she is ready to come back to camp she calls in and I collect her with the Quad.I also have a gps but it is not much help in these situations. :|
 
BIGREDD said:
Walksalot
I don't think it is illeagal to use them to hunt in B.C. but it is definetly against the rules of "Fair Chase".
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I don't know if they interpret the rules in that way... if they do then would not a GPS would be considered unfair... :?
http://www.azwildlife.org/RulesFairChase.pdf
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One hunter, with a radio, sitting on a ridge coaching another hunter, with a radio, to where an animal is located.
With a GPS you would have to have a given location to be loaded into the GPS. This could be done from a plane, which is covered by the rules.
Radios are a communication device while a GPS is a navigational device.
I am sure though soon they will be making GPSs with radios built in.
 
I am sure though soon they will be making GPSs with radios built in.
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They have for a few years already.... :idea:

And the rules say specifically that " Use of electronic devices for attracting, locating or observing game, or for guiding the hunter to such game. "

As far as this rule is concerned it would preclude the use of range finder binoculars... range finders... GPS units... radios... and a myraid of other electronic devices.
Methinks that many Boone and Crocket listings were not taken by fair-chase :idea:
Fair chase is an unenforceable and ethereal concept........ :roll:
 
If for nothing else the radios are handy to summon help if you should happen to break your leg or some such silly thing.The ranchers all use them where I hunt so you can usually find someone to call if you cant reach camp
 
BIGREDD said:
And the rules say specifically that " Use of electronic devices for attracting, locating or observing game, or for guiding the hunter to such game. "

As far as this rule is concerned it would preclude the use of range finder binoculars... range finders...
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You know. Red, I never thought of that, but you are correct for sure!

If a guy can determine the range within a few yards using an LRF, then "chase" is certainly lessened.

Ted
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