Would you hunt from this?
 

I wanted to do a poll but guess I'm not allowed...

Just curious what everyone thinks about hunting from one of these:

http://hylift.com/images/p0000417.jpg

Personally I'm 100% against it and any other hunting from a vehicle. Looks like something you'd see in one of those emails with a caption below it that reads: "Redneck Hunting Blind".

What do you think of it? Would you hunt from it?

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I think the deer around here would laugh at you from 400 yards away.


I used to know a guy who had something similar to that. It was a blind mounted on a trailer and had hydraulic lifts. But, he was confined to a wheel chair.

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no i wouldnt maybe for ohhhh 8-900 bucks

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You wouldn't catch me in one, simply because most of the time you only see them on ranches with fences!!!

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I wouldnt but i am sure someone with more money than sense would!!!!

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here ya go. id never hunt out of one. even though they look kinda cool lol

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That aint nothing, my buddy hunts a ranch in west texas thats about 60 miles by 60 miles. they build trucks and jeeps similiar to that but your able to drive them from up top. theres no other way to hunt this place. Its kinds of desert like, you wouldnt see a deer any other way. They hunt from sun up to sun down covering many many miles. Just to get a deer. Its not as easy as you think, and shots can range 4 or 500 yds.

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They need the truck to carry all the bait and then to run them up in the corner of a fence. Then they plug in the spotlight shoot.

Hunt'n Texas Style.

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I shoot from a wheelchair sometimes.I have a permit to hunt from a vehicle.But never did yet.But as my physical condition worsens I will have to in some cases

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Can't say until I've tried it and that aint likely, but if I did I'd be slow to mention it.:D

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That would be quite normal in 2 Mobile WMA s in Florida. There are 2 WMAs down there for wheelchair bound hunters. One fellow shot 3 trophies ...all 10 points in one week. Article was in the July edition of Glorida Fish and Game 2005.
Chuck

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Huntin Texas style is not all high fence and fancy stands! East Texas bottom land hunting is as challenging as it gets! But NO I would not hunt from that!

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HAhAh a friend of mynes little bro and his step dad hunt west texas from there 4door dualie with it RUNNING the Heater on and Music..... I would think that rig is on a big managment lease and YEA you could probly Kill you a deer from it. I woulnt call it hunting tho. I dont consider any management Lease hunting. If you dont kill something its your fault on those type of leases. IMO

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Let's see $40,000+ truck with hydraulic set up and then add the lifting stand!

Now I get reamed about the money i spend on stands and well hunting in general by my wife but nothing in comparison to this!!!!!!

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I must have mistaken the shoulder straps on the front bumper. I thought it was a ram for people with a lazy trigger finger.

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Iwo good ones in one post.:D Your on a roll.:D

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NO I would not .

In Ohio that would get you a ticket

Johnch

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No,I couldn't get that thing up the tree.

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I don't know how many times I've gone out into the woods leaving my Camp/pickup behind and returning to find numerous tracks (read fresh in snow) milling about the camp/pickup. If hunting would only be that fortunate rigs like that would be everywhere. My camp isn't cammo either. And my blind/stand is on the front end of the camper:Dbut I wouldn't dare shoot through the windows.

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I don't see it as any different from hunting out of any other blind . I've laid on boulders that tall before and had vegetation to hide in too , this isn't much different .

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Kansasdeerhunter, its nice to see that you've posted a copyrighted picture with out permission.........


Anyway while we are on the subject here are some more for your viewing pleasure............

http://hylift.com/images/dscn-0269.jpg

http://hylift.com/images/img_0846.jpg

http://hylift.com/images/brian_bailey_truck.jpg

http://www.southtexasoutfitters.com/ShowData.php?vID=5

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In deep south Texas and Mexico that type of rig is very common. And you cant chase them down and corner them into a fence. Mostly because you cant drive one of those very fast. Also because the ranches are 20,000 + acres and that's a small one. In mexico they'd look at you and ask "whats a fence?" I've hunted out of a rig like that on a ranch that is54,000acres and low fenced. We shot hogs and coyotes of it. We saw a lot of deer but for the life of me I can't remember a single time that we ran one down and shot it with a spot light.The primary reason for the rig is so you can see over the extremely thick brush. Let not your ignorance cause judgement on a topic when you know not of which you speak.

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Iunder stand that different locations call for different methods of hunting, but those are alittle out there.I dont think it is anything like a climbing stand, not even close. I have never seen a climber with a V8 hemmi in it.

No I would never hunt from one, my feet will do just fine.

Also comparing it to a rock bluff is rediculus.

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Different regions, different styles and methods of hunting. It's perfectly legal so whysay anythingabout it?? IF you don't like it.... DON'T hunt from one.

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Please check my original post again, I didn't post a copyrighted picture, just a link to a page on the site, no different than what you did.

I just don't see how its any different than hunting from a vehicle. In Kansas I'm pretty sure that's illegal, if not it is certainly frowned upon by the majority of hunters. I know its legal in some states/countries, and used often there. I just think it takes a lot out of the challenge of hunting deer.

I simply posted this for discussion- wondering what others would think - knowing that there would be opinions on both sides. I'm not trying to cause judgement, just seeing how everyone else feels about it.

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Many, many hunters hunt from these, wht not make it portable?
When it starts to rain hard, just get in the truck or sleep in the
truck, plus you have all your hunting gear with you. Here in Fl
you park in the palmettos and you can't see the truck.
Can always change locations quick. I have a similar set up on
a 88 Blazer Tahoe.



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well it definitely brigns a whole new meaning to the term "deer drives"

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Bottom line: It's their property, they can hunt it however they want, except for using artificial light.

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Tex, in the FL reg's it states that no hunting from a
vehicle whilein motion or swiming deer enen if the boat
is standing still.
In over 50yrs of hunting, I have never hunted in a private
enclosed area and never shined for deer.
Yes I hunt from one of these, I have a 88 Blazer Tahoe
with a shooting stand on it. With the palmetto's we have
here hogs and deer can't see the Blazer, but I can see them.
The states up north and out west are different than the Southern
states when it comes to theterrain in which we hunt.
Different strokes for different folks!


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Nice set-up..... I cant afford a 60,000.00 deer stand...
As for purpose they work great, the scrub and brush in South Texas heck even the trees you are hard pressed to find anything big enought to put a stand in...the high rack set-ups work great for seeing over the brush would be really hard to bowhunt from...

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WELL SAID, RYAN!

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I was down in South Texas(San Antonio) for 3 weeks in 2001. I saw many of these while cruisen the country. They all weren't mounted on new trucks either. As some have already stated the ranches down there are HUGE. Some of these ranches are as big/bigger that the county I live in!

I can't see how one would hunt that area effectively unless you built 100+ deer stands at a cost well beyond what a truck mounted hydraulic manlift would cost.The deer stands/towers I did see were as high as some buildings around here. If you got the bucks - Go For It.

I just can't see anything unethical about hunting out of one of these vehicles vs some of the "Club Houses" some guys call deer stands.

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Heck, even if I wanted to hunt with that thing, I couldn't get it back to where I hunt. Can just barely get a ATV to my lease.

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I Love That SETUP......:D:D:DAWSOME.
In British Columbia its unlawful to shoot from a vehicle...
One has to outside the vehicle before a shot is taken........This would probably constituteas shooting from one....
Personally I don't see the big deal in hunting from this setup...
Not my hunting style but I'm not a farmer,rancher nor do I live
in the flat open prairies......
No diff than some other methods that are used elsewhere..
Give the guy some credit he is an idealist....He has found a loophole in the hunting laws and ethics..
But until that law is stated and a defination declared its O.K.
Esecially if I was a farmer and deer where deer have a detramental affect my annual crop harvest....Any advantage I could get I would take...

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I don't see it as any different than hunting out of any other box blind especially if it's parked. If it's moving than that is a little different but I still see no problem with it so long as it's legal in the state that you hunt in.

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Well said.

That brush is so thick you people from the midwest, the east or wherever have no idea. Pretty much the only way to get around, at least on my lease is by way of caliche roads criss crossing the ranch. Like they say everyting in south texas either bites, stings or has a sticker.

Some people on this forum just think they are so damn high and mighty that they gotta go accusing others of being un ethical when they do not take into consideration the terrain, vegetation, and situation of other hunters in other parts of the country.

Anyways not my prefered method but yes id hunt out of that high rack.

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I personally wouldn't use that particular "stand" because our ATV's couldn't pull that much weight back into the woods.

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I knew dove hunting from a truck was illegal, and I had thought hunting other game animals in that fashion was, too. But I thought I'd better check the regs before commenting, and sure enough, it's legal.

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NT, In Texas its perfectly legal to hunt from a vehicle as long as you are on private property....My daughter went on a youth hunt on the King ranch a few years back and thats the way all the kids hunted (from trucks) 12 kids, 12 bucks smallest was 97 inches and largest was 137 inches all in one day, all cull bucks that were over 5.5 years old...

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Well, that is all fine and dandy, but I have hunted in So texas for does and hogs/javelinas. Plain and simple, you cannot walk through that brush and realistically hunt. You can't even see 1 foot into the brush. And when you have to track a wounded animal through it, every thing has 2-5" thorns. No joke. We didn't have one of those rigs, but we wished we did! A couple of other guys there had them. It is essentially just a 4 wheeler to get to a stand, with out having a set place for the stand. No idiot, that I have met or heard of, has ever "chased down and cornered it by the fence". Also as has been stated,many of these ranches are so large it is hard to comprehend. The ranch that I hunted on was the same sizeas the valley that I livein, and Utahvalley isn't that small,100,000 people live here. Those rigs are the most practical way to hunt So Texas and Mexico.