go_deep
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Twice this last weekend I got bad unsolicited advice, in both cases what I was told was illegal. Both times I corrected the people that were telling me said illegal things, but they seemed surprised that they were wrong.
My daughter hasn't hunted in 2 years and this summer she asked if I'd take her up blue grouse hunting, absolutely I told her. First bout of bad advise we park and are getting a few things together and a guy that had a camp at the TH comes over assuming we're archery hunting to talk to us about where we're going for the night and I just told him I'm taking my daughter up to walk some of the rock edges with the brush to look for some grouse not far off the road. He says, those grouse are all over the road, just drive up and down the road and shoot them off the road. I said, well it's a public road and you legally would have to push them back past the ROW, them you could shoot them. He was surprised that you couldn't shot them right off the county road.
Second piece of bad advise the next day we're walking some forest roads and a guy comes by in a bike with archery gear on his back, we talk a little, the he asks what we're hunting for. I tell him blue grouse, he then tells me about a road down the mountain a ways where they're grouse all over the road and to go down there and shoot some. I explained to him that I knew that road very well, and those are sage grouse, and season isn't open for them. He seemed very surprised that there was more than one kind of grouse and didn't understand why they'd have different seasons for them.
If you genuinely don't know, don't point someone in the wrong direction.
Good luck and be safe this season!
My daughter hasn't hunted in 2 years and this summer she asked if I'd take her up blue grouse hunting, absolutely I told her. First bout of bad advise we park and are getting a few things together and a guy that had a camp at the TH comes over assuming we're archery hunting to talk to us about where we're going for the night and I just told him I'm taking my daughter up to walk some of the rock edges with the brush to look for some grouse not far off the road. He says, those grouse are all over the road, just drive up and down the road and shoot them off the road. I said, well it's a public road and you legally would have to push them back past the ROW, them you could shoot them. He was surprised that you couldn't shot them right off the county road.
Second piece of bad advise the next day we're walking some forest roads and a guy comes by in a bike with archery gear on his back, we talk a little, the he asks what we're hunting for. I tell him blue grouse, he then tells me about a road down the mountain a ways where they're grouse all over the road and to go down there and shoot some. I explained to him that I knew that road very well, and those are sage grouse, and season isn't open for them. He seemed very surprised that there was more than one kind of grouse and didn't understand why they'd have different seasons for them.
If you genuinely don't know, don't point someone in the wrong direction.
Good luck and be safe this season!