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<blockquote data-quote="kcebcj" data-source="post: 295816" data-attributes="member: 10391"><p>Here in West Central Idaho where I live which is located about 33 miles from a paved road I use a quad mainly to get around and so do my neighbors. Quads are used for everything except hunting. What I mean by that is we use quads to get to and from certain areas and such then hunt on foot. Have I ever hunted just off the quad you bet, but hunting on foot or horseback is more fun and of course your not limited to some trail. What I have learned is that deer get used to hearing and seeing quads and aren't spooked much by them. I do much of the early scouting from a quad and see the same bucks or bulls in the same canyons week after week from a distance of course but they certainly heard me. You drive right up on them and they are gone especially elk they will go to the next county. I'm bordered on the south by the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area on the east by BLM and on the north and west by neighbors. All the tress passers and poachers we catch in here get into this back country using a quad and it's usually stashed somewhere. Does that make the quad a bad thing no, it's of course the person doing the riding.</p><p></p><p>I don't see the public land here being abused by quad riders mainly I think because it's too steep to drive a quad off the road or skid trail in most areas and there is a lot of pieces of private land that limits where folks can go so there is probably just less traffic then in other areas.</p><p></p><p>Your always going to have the a$$holes that run off trail cut fences and just act stupid but I think that most of the people around here are civil and law abiding and use their quads legally.</p><p></p><p>I think there are enough restrictions in place but they are hard to enforce. I don't want to see Fish & Game turned into quad cops they have enough to do but the forest service and BLM employees do have the ability to ticket violators and that's who should be enforcing the rules on public lands anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kcebcj, post: 295816, member: 10391"] Here in West Central Idaho where I live which is located about 33 miles from a paved road I use a quad mainly to get around and so do my neighbors. Quads are used for everything except hunting. What I mean by that is we use quads to get to and from certain areas and such then hunt on foot. Have I ever hunted just off the quad you bet, but hunting on foot or horseback is more fun and of course your not limited to some trail. What I have learned is that deer get used to hearing and seeing quads and aren’t spooked much by them. I do much of the early scouting from a quad and see the same bucks or bulls in the same canyons week after week from a distance of course but they certainly heard me. You drive right up on them and they are gone especially elk they will go to the next county. I’m bordered on the south by the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area on the east by BLM and on the north and west by neighbors. All the tress passers and poachers we catch in here get into this back country using a quad and it’s usually stashed somewhere. Does that make the quad a bad thing no, it’s of course the person doing the riding. I don’t see the public land here being abused by quad riders mainly I think because it’s too steep to drive a quad off the road or skid trail in most areas and there is a lot of pieces of private land that limits where folks can go so there is probably just less traffic then in other areas. Your always going to have the a$$holes that run off trail cut fences and just act stupid but I think that most of the people around here are civil and law abiding and use their quads legally. I think there are enough restrictions in place but they are hard to enforce. I don’t want to see Fish & Game turned into quad cops they have enough to do but the forest service and BLM employees do have the ability to ticket violators and that’s who should be enforcing the rules on public lands anyway. [/QUOTE]
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