Chopper Hunts Into Landlocked Public Land

[wapitibob]

2025 seems to be the year of inflation, but prior to, 3 guys would be all in for less than $1,000ea from what I have seen posted the last few years.

Blue Mountain is the outfitter in OR that does this.

 

[Beendare]

2025 seems to be the year of inflation, but prior to, 3 guys would be all in for less than $1,000ea from what I have seen posted the last few years.

Blue Mountain is the outfitter in OR that does this.

They will be booked solid for the next 5 years now....grin

 

[JF_Idaho]

"Considering charges" - what constitutes hunter harassment in WY?

Yeah. In the first article it seems like the hunters "let it go" after an apology.....not sure.

I guess at this point its up to the warden or state f&g to decide to press charges.

 

[180ls1]

Yeah. In the first article it seems like the hunters "let it go" after an apology.....not sure.

I guess at this point its up to the warden or state f&g to decide to press charges.

Ah, OK. Honestly, that video is probably far more damaging.

 

[TaperPin]

A little bit of word salad here TP?
What is it you are saying?

I have a wide variety of friends, but I really don’t know that many people, not like a social butterfly who might have thousands of people they keep in touch with. In my circle of friends and slightly larger circle of acquaintances, which is a very small percentage of the population, I know a guy (maybe two and he won’t talk about it) who was paid to sign a NDA after a back country helicopter trip that didn’t end well so the location and identity of folks on board wouldn’t come out.

It wasn’t until working for some well off clients on their vacation homes that the amount of idiocracy surrounding boys with expensive toys became more clear. One client with a moderate amount of new money has an annual fun budget for hobbies of $200k in walking around cash and about that for moderate size purchases. He firmly believes rules only apply to others and sometimes it bites him on the ass. He’s more likely to hunt a high fence ranch with an expensive hooker under his arm for company, but if he wanted to be dropped off next to an elk herd on public land, he would concoct some far fetched way to get plausible deniability and do it. He’s the type that would pay one of his employees to take the fall for him.

Another client of a guy I worked for with new money bought tens of thousands of acres bordering good elk hunting for a hobby ranch. He flies into the property on a helicopter and I’d bet an expensive steak dinner, one with those fancy warm wet towels I never know what to do with, that he has no problem being dropped off up on the mountain to meet up with his ranch manager during hunting season. Unless someone could prove the guy getting out of the helicopter was him, it would be argued it was the camp cook arriving with supplies. In an afternoon he could be at one of his 6 other properties many states over, with an entire staff of people saying he never left. He was the biggest ass I’ve ever met - hopefully he has some long drawn out painful kind of medical condition by now that can’t be treated.

 

[TaperPin]

What Wyoming law or regulation was broken by using a helicopter for transportation? Oh, that’s right, none of them. The only lawbreaker here was the landowner trying to keep people from accessing public land.

I have no doubt both sides are ass hats, and even if no laws were broken anyone is allowed to sue anyone in civil court. Some big ranches are owned by attorneys and they love to flood people with bs civil suits. It has historically been an effective way to keep people away from private land just to avoid the hassle of defending against such things.

Corner crossing and landing on islands of public land sounds like a good use of time to many people, I’m just not one of them.

 

[passinggas33]

I don’t think you can legally use a helicopter to do that in Idaho.

I called fish and game about this last year. You can get dropped off by helicopter but you cannot legally transport game via helicopter, so if you kill something you have to get it out some other way. I was looking at a hug chunk of prime land locked hunting ground. Thanks to the Wilks bros.

 

[Customweld]

I called fish and game about this last year. You can get dropped off by helicopter but you cannot legally transport game via helicopter, so if you kill something you have to get it out some other way. I was looking at a hug chunk of prime land locked hunting ground. Thanks to the Wilks bros.

They locked up a ton of ground.

 

[noisy]

Funny I just watched a couple old Newberg videos where he does this exact thing. Seasons 3/4. Surely in Montana. Only reg he mentions is not being able to hunt the day you fly.

 

[loganwayne]

Sounds like all the regs are aimed at helicopters. Why not use a bush plane. Yes I realize a plane will limit where you could land.

 

[Geewhiz]

I think you guys might be sulprised at how few parcels of land locked land are possible/legal to fly into and on top of that how few of those would actually be worth it. A helicopter or a plane is not as much of an easy button as most think.

 

[MuleyFever]

Sounds like all the regs are aimed at helicopters. Why not use a bush plane. Yes I realize a plane will limit where you could land.

Because if I remember correctly in many areas its illegal to land. Helicopters can drop you without touching the ground.