RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

Makes a lot of sense and I'd bet you could get closer to game as one wouldn't look nor sound like a human walking. Just like horseback or ATV, game is less likely to spook.

I know many use them on some game lands locally, it's an old Army bunker site called the Ordinance. Miles of flat dirt roads throughout. People use mt. bikes to ride clear to the back towards the prision fence, that's were the deer go when the bullets rain out. I was taken there as a teenager and heard bullets go by, never went back again.

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

Hey ulti, that is a cool pic. Could you give us pics of your bike by itself and your experience of what is necessary for options on one. Thanks.

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

I think it's a neat idea and would probably work to some extent, especially in a place that already has designated trails.

However, I always feel that hunting with as little scent as possible is hunting better. I would think that while it may work for the first season pretty well. It would greatly interfer on the farmland deer I hunt from that season on. I believe the whitetail would become wise to it.. smelling the grease on the chain, the bearings etc. and associating it with danger from the year(s) before. I try never to under estimate the power of a whitetails memory.

Bikers are in fact rare, or scarce, in my woods and the deer would catch on quickly!:)

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

in one spot where i bow hunt theres no motorized vehicles at all.. so a bike is the only way.. i tend to disagree with less likely to spooke when on a bike instead of a 4wheeler.. there so used to atv's around here they dont even get up jus watch ya.. when ya stop thats when they get a lil itchy... but half the time they still dont go no where. i know it dont make sense but they jus adapted to them here

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

Mountain bikes work great. We use them to go up gated logging roads to bow hunt elk, etc. Sometimes the trip in is 2-3 miles and takes over an hour(where ATV's are prohibited of course), but the trip out is usually 10-15 minutes or less on the bike. We put the ATV bow/rifle holders on the handle bars too. I have saddle bags for packing a spike camp in, and we often strap deer or antelope to them as well. My father-in-law made a hitch for his game cart so he can pull it with his MB.

Here is a pic of us getting ready for a 4 mile pack into remote mule deer country in Eastern Montana:

http://eatsleephunt.googlepages.com/PackininEasternMTMuleyHunting.jpg

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

Yea hardcore I will get some pictures this weekend it is dark when i get home.Did yoy notice the 4 foot long lodgepole lashed to the handle bars? That is what is used to push and steady the bike. I will post pictures of my scabbard as well

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

Yes I did see the pole. Thanks.

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

Thats the way alot of Fla. boys do it in the Green Swamp. I hunted there with some friends and they gave me a bike to make the 6 mile trek backto where they had their hunting spots. I gotta tell you, riding thru that sandy soil with all your gear on your back was quite the work out. I was so ready to get off that damn bike.

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

Yep, on land that doesn't allow motorized vehicles. Itisn't as easy as it seems and I wouldn't do it if there were no cut trails, I couldn't do it. All I can do to go up some wash outs. Just gets me back to the general area,a mile and a half back. Takes less than 10 miniutes in, there's a grade coming out and even though it's small, it's a killer.I pull a kids cartcalled a Burly for gear. I don't worry about camo. Great for scouting! The only thing you leave behind is rubber tire tracks and those are barely recognizable to man or beast.

Learned this the hard way, put your bow in a soft case or make sure it is secured safelyand securely. Strings don't like to be rubbed.

ATV's are the ticket.

RE: Mt. Bikes and Bowhunting??
 

This is my new concept of getting into the woods (along these lines anyway)! I'm going revolutionize the entire industry with this one. Still have a kink or two to work out on some minor details but I think it will fly.