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

VanIsleCam said:
Now, this is my first experience hunting in Saskatchewan and it was fun but wow - too easy! You drive around in your truck, all nice and warm, looking into dead flat fields with 5kms visibility, choose your target and home for tea. No sitting in a blind getting pissed on, or pushing through deadfall with fickle little deer midgets darting around you in the bush. You prairie guys are lucky.
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You're talking like we all do that which is quite frankly insulting. I've hunted many provinces and have never hunted harder then here in Saskatchewan, the opportunities for those who are willing to put the effort are amazing. The sick, lame or lazy are truck hunters, yet again, they are hunters whether you like it or not, as long as it is legal, I have no issues with it. You can't blame a guy with reduced mobility or health driving around enjoying the sport the we he/she can. Truck hunters can get lucky and harvest a beautiful buck, for the most part, they don't. I've spent around 20 days in the bush this year trying to fill my tags and have been successful at doing so, you can see that in a thread I started about my 2017 hunt.

Also, you've clearly never been north of Saskatoon, no endless prairies there, a lot of that thick brush you talk about though. I bear hunt in areas that are just as bad as northern Ontario or Quebec...
 
scruffee said:
You're talking like we all do that which is quite frankly insulting. I've hunted many provinces and have never hunted harder then here in Saskatchewan, the opportunities for those who are willing to put the effort are amazing. The sick, lame or lazy are truck hunters, yet again, they are hunters whether you like it or not, as long as it is legal, I have no issues with it. You can't blame a guy with reduced mobility or health driving around enjoying the sport the we he/she can. Truck hunters can get lucky and harvest a beautiful buck, for the most part, they don't. I've spent around 20 days in the bush this year trying to fill my tags and have been successful at doing so, you can see that in a thread I started about my 2017 hunt.

Also, you've clearly never been north of Saskatoon, no endless prairies there, a lot of that thick brush you talk about though. I bear hunt in areas that are just as bad as northern Ontario or Quebec...
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I'd like to think it is clear that I am not referencing all Saskatchewan hunters in this thread. My aim was to be light hearted and poke a little fun.
 
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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I don't truck hunt, but my first requirement in a Rifle is a detach magazine. I find it soo much easier and faster to damn near anything.

You'd probably be not to surprised to know that most truck hunters dont unload anyways. A fella at work, his cousin shot a hole in his best friends 2016 RAM. Hit it right through the door. He claimed the .308 Tikka (which he borrowed) just went off. There is sooo much fail in that story. That same fella lost his license a few years back for a loaded gun in a truck.

He did win the biggest shot RAM of the season though. I heard he is getting a trophy.
 
As a non-resident, I have hunted Saskatchewan many times since 1988 and never truck hunted, case in point, I think never in Alberta. Saskatchewan is a beautiful province for hunting. I could not see myself driving around in a heated truck when there is fantastic hunting terrien to walk, or sit in the bush. Northern Saskatchewan has great boreal forests to still hunt or sit, however; my favorite place to still hunt or stalk an animal is the Great Sand Hills. To each their own how they wish to hunt, but I'm not missing out to venture into the outdoors.
 
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