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[sacshooter]

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Jimc, did you go to the squirrel wars dinner?
Supposedly the new fish and game officer spoke to the crowd and said he was going to start citing people who shoot are shooting from vehicle mounted stands.
This sucks, because we have been doing this in Cedarville for the last 13 years or so
Roger

[JimC]

Supposedly the new fish and game officer spoke to the crowd and said he was going to start citing people who shoot are shooting from vehicle mounted stands.
Roger

Hi Roger,

I posted a brief report under your last General Chat post, and I am no longer an air gun squirrel virgin. But to answer your question, yes I was there and yes that is what the Game Warden said. Basically no shooting from a motorized vhehicle (car, truck, ATV, tractor....) if you have a trailer that you shoot from and it is attached to your vehicle you are considered to be shooting from your vehicle. If you rest your rifle on the hood of your truck, you are shooting from your vehicle. Not a lot of happy campers at the dinner.

The warden basically said this was your warning. I don't think he wrote any tickets last weekend but it sounds like they are going to be enforcing the law. How aggressively is the question? I think there is one warden for all of Northern California.

That is one nice set up you have. My friend had one of the RCBS RASS benches mounted on top of the lumber rack on his truck and he let me shoot from it for a while, quite a different perspective from 8-10ft off the ground, safer as well as the steeper angle reduces the chance of a long ricochet. Where the high platform really would come in handy is when the grass starts to grow. I guess we will all have to come up with new platforms to shoot from. One of my other friends was really upset as he just build one of the nicest swivel bench set ups I have seen, bolted to the bed of his truck. It looks like it was good for one season.

Get up there as soon as you can as they are having a great squirrel season. I heard a report of 2 shooters who claimed to have taken 1,198 squirrels in one day at the Round Up. I can’t imagine how you could do that unless you never missed any shoots out to 500 yds.

Jim in Sacramento

[sacshooter]

the Game Warden said. Basically no shooting from a motorized vhehicle (car, truck, ATV, tractor....) if you have a trailer that you shoot from and it is attached to your vehicle you are considered to be shooting from your vehicle. If you rest your rifle on the hood of your truck, you are shooting from your vehicle.

I thought about moving the stands to a trailer, but I think they could still get you even if it was not attached to your vhehicle, because if it has License plate with valid registration then technically acording to the DMV it is considered a licensed vehicle isn’t it. I also think dragging around a trailer would be difficult because you do a lot of backing up to avoid driving on the alpha, so this could be a pain in the butt.

I am making sausage with my father on Saturday, he has something he came up with, I may just make a 12 foot long platform to mount my shooting stands to then the two of us can slide it off the truck onto a couple of sawhorses or something.

I feared this day was coming so I got one of these and It was modified to hold one of my 44CF carbon fiber tanks.
It will hold all my pellets, and it even has a soft sided ice chest to hold my lunch:’)




I think I will use it to carry one airgun and the other gun rack will be used to hold my shooting sticks, and an umbrella. Now all I need is a folding chair:’)

[JimC]

......I thought about moving the stands to a trailer, but I think they could still get you even if it was not attached to your vhehicle, because if it has License plate with valid registration then technically acording to the DMV it is considered a licensed vehicle isn’t it

Roger you might be onto something here. I believe the law states motorized vehicle, but I'm not sure if there is a definition of what a firearm is. Perhaps air rifles would be exempt? Is it illegal to shot a slingshot from a motorized veheicle?

Nice shooting wagon you have there. That would work perfectly with my camp chair and shooting sticks. I took a lot of squirrels using this method with both the air rifle and the 17hmr. You can move quickly an quietly from area to area and not disturb the squirrels.


Jim in Sacramento

Update: I did a little research and got my answer. they covered all the bases. Here is DFG code section 3002

"3002. It is unlawful to shoot at any game bird or mammal, including a marine mammal as defined in Section 4500, from a powerboat,
sailboat, motor vehicle, or airplane."

[sacshooter]

I'm re thinking the trailer thing.

If I had an extra $11k I'd get this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPljPF3I ... r_embedded

or back to making a platform that slides off my truck rack. that may be too much work. Or worst case just stick with the range boy

[BamaFan]

Roger,
That sucks that the warden is going to be that "anal"! In most states you, of course, can not hunt from a motorized vehicle, but being a ex-police officer in the State of Alabama for 10 years. A "motorized" vehicle here is considered as anything propelled by a motor. So in other words, don't hunt from your ridin lawnmower. I would think you would be okay shooting from your trailer so long that it is not attached to your truck. Of course I am siting laws from my own state, but just because it has a license plate doesn't make it a motorized vehicle. It is simply a trailer that is registered to an owner. Let us know if you get any clarity from Law Enforcement in Cali. Cheers, Shawn

BTW-Love the cart and rig on the truck!

[Supercharged86]

So you guys have squirrels running around "open" flat lands out there. Here in New England the squirrels spend most of the time running from tree to tree. Well that is until there "falling" out of them .

[JimC]

Hi Steve,

We have those kind of squirrels here as well, with the same malady The ground squirrels we are talking about here are usually seen in much higher volumes, like thousands in a single field in a day. The ranchers welcome shooters with open arms.

Jim in Sacramento