How to increase your odds when road hunting.

Gatehouse said:
Happens quite often like that! Or you hike all day and I'm your way back to your truck you find one right on the road! :)

People questioning the legality should relax. It's perfectly legal to shoot from a forest service road in BC. Don't worry about it, just chuckle at the irony of being all suited up and bumping into a deer while you drive to your spot! :)
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Glad you understood my post Gate. That was my intensions of my post. It can be funny how things work out sometimes.
 
Reminds me of a friend of mine. He gets his horses and heads to the hills. Spends a week hunting and sees nobody and no big bucks. Comes back, loads his horse trailer and drives down the forest road. Comes around the corner and there is a giant mule deer there. :)
 
Same thing happened to us a few years ago moose hunting. We spent a week hunting moose away from the crowds on the main roads where all the camps were. We were calling in swamps, moose meadow, hiking remote moose trails. For the whole week we didn't see anything. We decided to move camp back to the main road for the last couple days of our hunt. We had two bulls on he pole within 12 hours. Both shot from the main road! We saw a third one on the road but our tags were filled. Sometime you just have to shake your head and take what he hunting gods give you!
 
two-dogs said:
lol! If you are road hunting, no need to buy all that gear and spend all that money! Cheap running shoes will do just fine!:p. Or no maybe not, get the best running shoes that your money can buy, that way when the CO's chase you, you can out run them with ease!
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why would shoes matter?, spend the money on the vehicle you are road hunting in so it can outrun the CO rather than degrading yourself to a foot chase
 
bcsteve said:
Sounds like you need advices on to decrease your odds while truck hunting. This way you won't see anything till you get to your hiking spots. One one those deer whistles on your truck might help!
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I never had this problem till I got all this light weight gear. I might have to change my tactics. A whistle might work. lol
 
I'm pretty sure everyone road hunts in on the way to their hunting spots.

I drive around until I find a nice cut line or road, then get out and walk. Shot my doe this year on a lease road I was walking down.
 
DiabeticKripple said:
I'm pretty sure everyone road hunts in on the way to their hunting spots.

I drive around until I find a nice cut line or road, then get out and walk. Shot my doe this year on a lease road I was walking down.
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Apparently you can't do that. Keep your eye's on the rd, dont let your eye's wonder from side to side. If a big buck jumps out in front of you, ignore it.
 
Purple shoulder said:
Dont worry. You still have the gear and maybe next year you'll get to make the walk. Congrats on the buck.
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Thanks P.S. Yes always next year. The area I usually hunt, I can hike right from the wall tent. I'll have to get back there. The last couple of years I have been hunting southern bc, Rock Creek and Greenwood area and we stay in a motel.
 
......... just caught myself from being banned from the site. See you all again when this drunk wears off.
 
Gatehouse said:
Happens quite often like that! Or you hike all day and I'm your way back to your truck you find one right on the road! :)

People questioning the legality should relax. It's perfectly legal to shoot from a forest service road in BC. Don't worry about it, just chuckle at the irony of being all suited up and bumping into a deer while you drive to your spot! :)
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When hunting moose me and my stepbrothers will road hunt our favorite cheapest method is to sit in a parked pick up drinking coffee and wait for a moose to cross the road near a swamp or lake in the morning or late evening
the mid day hunt is for hiking looking for them bedded down
the most over looked spots are actually not that fare from town
But we are getting older and shoting them on the road is quite nice for Us old guys haha
 
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Same thing happened to me this year Laugh2
Sat in a blind all week!!! Finally gave up and thought we would do a little truck hunting farther north.
It was my first hunt, and I found myself a handsome 8 pointer.
I'm not stoked I nailed my first truck hunting, but it filled my freezer just the same!
 
bcsteve said:
Same thing happened to us a few years ago moose hunting. We spent a week hunting moose away from the crowds on the main roads where all the camps were. We were calling in swamps, moose meadow, hiking remote moose trails. For the whole week we didn't see anything. We decided to move camp back to the main road for the last couple days of our hunt. We had two bulls on he pole within 12 hours. Both shot from the main road! We saw a third one on the road but our tags were filled. Sometime you just have to shake your head and take what he hunting gods give you!
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Last moose hunt we were walking along the road and calling, climbed to a higher vantage spot off the road, and the moose came out of the trees, and walked right up the road to us! He died right on the road, it was awesome. None of us have ever had that happen before, it's always been backpacking out quarters or loading them on horses. We were able to cut it up right there and load it into the back of the truck! Nothing better than cracking a beer at 9am, celebrating with a moose already in the truck!
 
pete dobinson said:
Im not hunting public rds. I don't hunt rds normally. I don't turn down an opportunity though. A mountain is a pretty big backstop.
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Just remember Pete, most of the people commenting on road hunting don't know Blacktail hunting BC forest service and old logging roads using 5000 ft mountains as a back stop. They live where they can watch their dog run away for a week before it clears the horizon lol
 
rjf1963 said:
Just remember Pete, most of the people commenting on road hunting don't know Blacktail hunting BC forest service and old logging roads using 5000 ft mountains as a back stop. They live where they can watch their dog run away for a week before it clears the horizon lol
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How true that is.lol. I think more hunters on van island rd hunt more than anything else. The only way to get access to the back country is by logging rds. The bush here is so thick and the terrain is rough. There's not a lot first growth left to hunt. I like to hunt timber blocks and slashes. Most of the rds are gated. On private logging land they have a gate attendant that signs you in. Some time's there's a line up of 20 trucks, waiting to get in. I hate that. There are some beautiful areas to hunt though.
 
Gatehouse said:
Reminds me of a friend of mine. He gets his horses and heads to the hills. Spends a week hunting and sees nobody and no big bucks. Comes back, loads his horse trailer and drives down the forest road. Comes around the corner and there is a giant mule deer there. :)
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What happened next? Did he get the deer?
 
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