Trail Access Restrictions - No UTVs = No Horses

JFK

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Side by sides are useful sometimes in some places, and I don’t necessarily hate them, but they are an absolute scourge on public lands during hunting season, and my hope is they are banned in more places during hunting season. They create a race to the bottom. As the forest gets louder, game goes further back, more people buy side by sides to get further back, and the cycle repeats itself.
 

Mtndawger

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@ThorM465 One of the primary reasons the hunting we have today is because of the conservation mindedness of our forefathers. Wildlife requires wild lands and habitats. We fund most of that with our equipment and ammo purchases as well as our license dollars. You can’t have that if the lands are overrun with motorized vehicles. The impact of a sxs or quad is not only to the land, it is also the air (exhaust/pollution)) and to the ears (sound). This has been a continuous and historic debate about the meaning of freedom and access, privileges and rights. Wildlife struggles enough, do we need to add more to its struggle to survive? It’s not a big leap to understand why horses would be allowed and not motorized vehicles. Its about the animals…its not about you
 

IDVortex

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I can't afford a sxs, nor even afford to have horses (or be around the crazy horse ladies) so I agree with you. If I have to work harder should everyone else since I can't have what they have.

(I personally think most atv's/sxs's should only be limited to FS roads only, and gravel roads.)
 

TxLite

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Hopefully the mods don’t ban me for sharing this secret to western hunting but here it goes….. if you are on foot you can leave the trail and hike places horses and utvs can’t go. Hell, you can even go places where there is no trail.
You can’t be revealing all the secrets like this out in the open lol
 

IDVortex

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Hopefully the mods don’t ban me for sharing this secret to western hunting but here it goes….. if you are on foot you can leave the trail and hike places horses and utvs can’t go. Hell, you can even go places where there is no trail.
I hope you get permanently banned. Including your IP address, for sharing such a dumb idea.
 

Caseknife

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Hey I was around there too. Laced them up and went to the where the elk were with zero thought about whether the other guys had horses or not. Sure the pack out sucked but that's part of the reason elk like it there.

Nothing is worse than hearing a damn sxs all day and seeing people trying to drive them anywhere wide enough for the tires to fit though.
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Looks like he parked himself just right:)
 
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Hey I was around there too. Laced them up and went to the where the elk were with zero thought about whether the other guys had horses or not. Sure the pack out sucked but that's part of the reason elk like it there.

Nothing is worse than hearing a damn sxs all day and seeing people trying to drive them anywhere wide enough for the tires to fit though.
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And it’s amazing how soundly the elk sleep in areas where they’re not bothered by utv noise pollution, like this one in the picture. Hell, looks like he’s feeling secure enough to sleep in a bit after sun rise…Sunday morning maybe?
 

JohnB

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This year I was hunting behind a tank trap on a closed road. At least once a day I'd hear a SxS cruising along it because they wrestled their way around the tank trap. I did get to tell two guys "hey man, I was up here yesterday and the FS law enforcement officer was writing a guy a ticket for being back here"

Mom always said don't lie but I think she approved of that one.
 
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