Hunting on bicycle - how to secure the rifle?

Silentexpanse said:
I've done this. I'm big into cycling and alot of areas are closed to motor vehicles or have annoying restrictions. So i loaded my steal "Bombtrack" touring bike with gear and giant 3.5 inch tires and my gun. Worked real well. You can cover alot of distance. I had a front-rack that i mounted to the bike and then i mounted a set of ATV grips on that to hold my gun.
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Thanks, bud. Got pix perchance?

Trying to figure out the least of two evils here: ifI wear it as part of a pack, that's a lot of weight on me, up high. I'd prefer if the bike carried that. But if I attach it to the bike, I have to think it's going to take a bit of a thumping. I'd hate to shake the scope into uselessness...
 
Are you hunting big game? A friend of mine is doing the same thing with his fat tire bike. He got a super light trailer that attaches to the back. He can throw a deer on it if he wants. Or his gun. I believe what he ended up doing is stashing his pack, with the gun in it, in the trailer on the way in. And if he got a deer, he'll wear the pack on the way out or he'll strap it to the deer. I believe he said that he can go 70km with just the battery. So hauling an another 150lbs of deer would drop that by quite a bit.
 
I was thinking something like this but more of a scabbard style.
https://deathrideradventure.########.com/2015/09/gun-mount.html
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Like one of these. Thay are quite and hardly anything protects a rifle better. 2 million cowboys can't be wrong.
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Dark Alley Dan said:
Thanks, bud. Got pix perchance?

Trying to figure out the least of two evils here: ifI wear it as part of a pack, that's a lot of weight on me, up high. I'd prefer if the bike carried that. But if I attach it to the bike, I have to think it's going to take a bit of a thumping. I'd hate to shake the scope into uselessness...
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Unfortunately i don't have any pics and ive since removed the gear from the bike since i ride it when its not hunting season. I would recommend a trailer of some sort though to haul your animal back if you get one (i did not). This was the first year i did it as a test.

The scope seemed fine to me. It wasn't any bumpier than riding in an ATV or side by side.
 
I've used my ebike for hunting. I slinging a shotgun across the front of my chest with the rear stock down on the outside of my right hip. Pretty quick to grab the fore stock and lift it up over my head for shots at grouse and its easy to adjust it if starts to move / slide. haven't tried with a rifle but should be pretty much the same. I've looked at other options. Rambo bikes make a gun / bow holder that bolts on to the rear rack (https://rambobikes.ca/electric-bikes/gun-bow-holder/) and biktrix has their "A-bars" handle bars (https://www.biktrix.ca/products/biktrix-a-bars?variant=35837219569818) that I would look into if I wanted to use the rhino type gun holder. i
 
What ever you decide to go with, this is one of those use cases where a compact modern rifle with shorter barrels and or folding stocks helps... :)
 
I use a trailer with a large backpack with a meat shelf.

I put the backpack in the trailer with my gun facing back and down in a soft case.I portage rough spots with the backpack on my back making the bike easier to manipulate during crossings/obstacles.

While traveling all i have to do if i see something is stop /get off the bike lean it over on the ground and pull the rifle from the soft case that i i left just open.

I figure if i get something(a bear) i will get as much meat in the trailer as i can and wear the backpack out with my rifle strapped to the pack.

Haven't killed anything yet,it's all theory.

Was out last weekend and saw no bears,we'll try again this weekend.
 

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rideonjon said:
I use a trailer with a large backpack with a meat shelf.

I put the backpack in the trailer with my gun facing back and down in a soft case.I portage rough spots with the backpack on my back making the bike easier to manipulate during crossings/obstacles.

While traveling all i have to do if i see something is stop /get off the bike lean it over on the ground and pull the rifle from the soft case that i i left just open.

I figure if i get something(a bear) i will get as much meat in the trailer as i can and wear the backpack out with my rifle strapped to the pack.

Haven't killed anything yet,it's all theory.

Was out last weekend and saw no bears,we'll try again this weekend.
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I bet your rifle takes a poop kicking bouncing around in that trailer on bumpy trails!
 
The thing about scopes is that they're mostly designed to take blows from one direction, ie, straight back from the recoil of the rifle. For a while at least, good quality scopes were being ruined when people started mounting them on air rifles where there was a recoil coming from the 'wrong' direction, not very strong little double shoves from the compression spring. Such things do add up, as it turned out.
 
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I remember seeing a guy testing a yak bob trailer years ago, he was riding some technical trails and even attempting log rides.... tralier was dragging behind him doing a Rail style grind for a bit till it pulled his rear tire off the log as well..... :)

I think some of the newer ones have a suspension link mostly so it doesn't bounce and hop around.
Fixed iron sights and fixed power prism optics are more durable then more complicated optics.

This thread has me motivated to set up a similar rig!
 
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The goal here is to ride the bikes, all stealthy and quiet like, to an area where deer should be.

If we fatally surprise Bambi, we'll drag him to the road and pick him and the bikes up with the truck. Don't imagine we're going too far off truck-accessible roads. Neither of us are thinking about getting ten miles back on trails for this.

Why bother with the bikes then? Buddy has a sh!t knee. Easiest way for him to reasonably quietly cover ground is on a bike.
 
riversrest said:
My question would be...

How do you haul the game out on a bike ? You hunting upland game ?
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I think most of the big game bike hunters do the same, at least I do, bike until you see something, stalk the something, hopefully shoot the something, then drag/carry the something to the nearest truck accessible trail and get the truck to that spot!!
We did that a few times, once up the heart recover road off the Demster hwy, the road is blocked now to trucks, but in those days on dry years one could drive the truck about 10km down the rd. But last time I shot a caribou up there with the bikes, there was a section maybe 1km from the main rd that was really bad( we actually got stuck) for the truck but easily passable with the bikes, so off we went looking for caribou. Saw a small group on a mountain top and went for a stalk, successfully we pack the meat in our packs and off we went back to camp, after that we went back to get the bikes that were a few Km from camp! I find sometimes it is a good way to do approach that would be otherwise longer on foot.
 
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