You gotta remember I live in the middle of nowhere and 90% of roads are gravel so this isn't an issue in my local area anyways. Not only that, park on the side of the road and you'll probably get crushed by farm equipment here!
We have an area of our property where the only reasonable access point is by parking along the highway. Have done it forever and see no issue in it as long as state laws allow. How do we get deer out? Gut it on our property, drag it to the truck on the side of the road, load it in.
Is your truck conspicuous? Hunting decals and such? If so, could make your truck a target for thieves.
Where do you guys live?!? Act like you're parking in downtown Chicago with a bunch of valuable items in the bed of your truck. I would have zero issue parking along an interstate as long as it's allowed. There's nothing in my truck of value besides my hunting gear and that would be with me.
I live in a new world where cops are criminals and criminals are victims. Maybe there is a fantasy land out there void of thievery that I've never heard of.
Oh I wish I could do that at one spot. Would make my 2 mile bike ride/hike into a couple hundred yards
This is why I started doing it. 1.5 miles is cut down to .3 of a mile. And just as importantly its all down hill on the way in!
I think you face the same chances of getting something stolen in a parking lot somewhere...yeah more people pass the vehicle on a well used road but that works both ways. More people see it and if someone is messing with it more people see them. Like someone said I'd worry more about getting hit. As long as your over as far as you can get and its legal I don't see why not. I'd do the same if it meant I could come in a better way. The farm I hunt mostly is a long (almost a mile) narrow (well 400 yards wide) property. The fence rows and logged out areas are the places to hunt. Access through the corn/soybean field is easy except you are out there and playing the wind is sometimes a pain. Once the crops are off I use my ATV to get to a spot to walk in from. They seem to ignore that so far. Sometimes I'd love to park on the other side of a stand of woods behind the property to come in that way but it just isn't gonna happen. Can't wait for some trees to grow back either.
But then again if we could do that other people would probably do it and then I have to worry about people hunting those areas..
I see it all the time on 435 West in Kansas City. There's some great looking land around there, I've seen some monsters standing up on the bank above the highway. They just pull way off the road as far as they can, I don't know if they have had any troubles though.
Whenever I drive by a truck pulled over during hunting season I always wonder if they killed anything.
I always wonder that as well. One time many years ago, I was coming down the NE Extension of the Pa Turnpike, where I know you can't just pull over and park to hunt, I saw a guy trying to get his buck over/through the SGL fence along the highway and into his pickup. I remember this because I was surprised by the size of the rack!
gfitzwater -Technically not legal in VA (though it happens all the time) and I have heard that the CPO's are starting to ticket vehicles they find that way.
Guys do it all the time down here hunting in the swamp, but people have vandalized there trucks. Now on the interstate where it use to be legal (where you park is way off the road to) is now illegal I think because they had so many issues with people complaining about there trucks getting messed up and insurance having to cover it. But if you have a good wife or friend that can drop you off then that would be best.
