ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter

I agree with you Sproul to a certain extent.Road hunting is becomeingmore prevelant.Due to a viral infection that caused substantial heart dalmage a couple of years ago, I usually hunt a lot closer to the roads than I once did. When I hunt the 2Fbig woods these days it's usually within sight of the road and I see WAY too many trucks cruising very slowly down the back roads.

We even had a bad experience with some roadies this year. A friend with a leg that is essentially dead from mid thigh down struggled through 6 inches of snow 150 yards into the woods this season to his stand and shot at a buck around 11AM. he struggled over to the what he though were the bucks tracks and found no blood. When I came over to see himabout 1/2 hour later I went over and had another look for him.I picked up a heavy blood trail just 10 yards further than he had gone. We took the trail up as quickly as two gimps can and it took us right across the road. At the road we found two sets of human tracks coming our way on the blood trail and then turning right around to follow the deer up when they apparently determined that the deer was headed the opposite way. The road was covered with a dusting from a fresh snow squall and it was obvious they had been dropped off by a vehicle right there. The blood trail led to a gutpile and dragmarks right back to the road. The place in the road where the drag trail ended was 200 yards plus from any placewhere a vehicle couldpark. I seriously doubt that they even shot the thing again. The sign indicated that they likely found it dead and took it.[:'(]