sacshooter wrote: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