"Road Hunting" laws??
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Vermont USA
Posts: 68
"Road Hunting" laws??
Do any states/provinces that you all know of have laws against "Road Hunting"?? I think it has really started to hit me since I bought a little land but I see a couple cars a day the rest of the year, but come deer season, its like an interstate by my place only the trucks and "hunters" are only going 5 mph. I feel if you are going to hunt, get in the woods and hunt instead of picking off a deer in sight of the road.
If you have laws, how are they worded and how are they enforced?
Thanks all
D
If you have laws, how are they worded and how are they enforced?
Thanks all
D
#3
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Vermont USA
Posts: 68
RE: "Road Hunting" laws??
M Magis, Im only looking for comparison purposes. I did a google search for road hunting and I guess its seen differently in other places. When we say road hunting in VT, we mean riding in your vehicle, creeping along the roads, looking for a deer that is in a field, on a lawn, under an apple tree etc that you can jump out, get 10 feet off the road and shoot. I guess to each their own, but thats shooting, not hunting a deer.
I work in law enforcement in a rich resort town and we get calls all the time about the "road hunters" and it is also the cause of MANY posted signs to go up.
Just wanted to see what other states did on this type of thing.
I realize every state has their own way of looking at things. Just like OH compared to VT private land. You need written permission out there to hunt and it can be hard to come by. In VT if its not posted, its open to hunt on.
Not trying to start a problem, just comparing other states. The only places Ive hunted are VT and OH.
I work in law enforcement in a rich resort town and we get calls all the time about the "road hunters" and it is also the cause of MANY posted signs to go up.
Just wanted to see what other states did on this type of thing.
I realize every state has their own way of looking at things. Just like OH compared to VT private land. You need written permission out there to hunt and it can be hard to come by. In VT if its not posted, its open to hunt on.
Not trying to start a problem, just comparing other states. The only places Ive hunted are VT and OH.
#4
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cambridge Ohio USA
Posts: 744
RE: "Road Hunting" laws??
In VT if its not posted, its open to hunt on.
#5
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Vermont USA
Posts: 68
RE: "Road Hunting" laws??
Yes, very frustrating. Before I started hunting in OH, I never thought Id like a state where I couldnt just hunt wherever but after 8 or 9 years of it out there, and now owning land myself, I like the idea.
Id like to put a bug in the ears of some board members and/or lawmakers here about these issues. This is why I ask as I know they are going to say, what can we do about road hunting, how can we enforce it...
I do see what you mean about the problem here though. If they couldnt hunt on private land, there would be no need to road hunt.
Thanks for the quick replies
D
Id like to put a bug in the ears of some board members and/or lawmakers here about these issues. This is why I ask as I know they are going to say, what can we do about road hunting, how can we enforce it...
I do see what you mean about the problem here though. If they couldnt hunt on private land, there would be no need to road hunt.
Thanks for the quick replies
D
#6
RE: "Road Hunting" laws??
Pitt
Hunt with a firearm from or on, or across a public road or the
right-of-way thereof.
Hunt while under the influence of an impairing substance.
Hunt with a firearm within 300 feet of any residency or occupied
building without the written, signed and dated permission
of the owner or lessee of the land. Permission must be
renewed annually.
Hunt or to discharge a firearm on or across posted land without
the written, signed and dated permission of the owner or lessee.
Permission must be renewed annually.
Release dogs on or to allow dogs to run on posted land without
the written signed and dated permission of the owner or lessee
of the land. Permission must be renewed annuallyThat the ILLEGAL stuff.
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: NW Oklahoma
Posts: 1,166
RE: "Road Hunting" laws??
In Oklahoma you can't shoot from, down, or across a road. If you were creeping down the road and saw a deer and jumped out of the vehicle, over the fence and shot a deer you would still be trespassing unless it was your own land. In that case it would be legal providing you were observing other laws such as blaze orange requirements. Land not being posted does not give you right to trespass, either.