sunrise

[Bushmoose]

I check "official" sunrise and sunset times every day before I go out because it's the legal standard used to establish the time of an offense,never leaving anything to chance. I dumped a Coyote at legal time last week with one eye on my watch and the other on the case latch.

What "official" time are you using or referring to? I don't believe there is an "official" time per se? It will always be the precise moment based on your location. The GPS will calculate that instantly or, if you have a copy of a Nautical Almanac and a sextant, you might be able to figure it out? lol

[outdoorlife]

Buy a gun sock. Use it for vehicle-stand and stand-vehicle.

I sock my gun with trigger lock on, then hard case. At roadside (before legal time) i remove socked gun from hard case and remove trigger lock, leaving that in the hard case).

The c.o. In our area was good with this

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

Buy a gun sock. Use it for vehicle-stand and stand-vehicle.

I sock my gun with trigger lock on, then hard case. At roadside (before legal time) i remove socked gun from hard case and remove trigger lock, leaving that in the hard case).

The c.o. In our area was good with this

Trigger lock is not needed unless fire arm is unattended. Just the sock buttoned up tight and unloaded of course...

[MikePal]

I can tell you from personal experience that they do it, the same COs that cover the area you hunt. .

Again not the scenario as proposed...he's talking about sitting in your stand/blind prior to legal time.....not the parking lot or the entrance to the bush. COs will not walk in the bush, in the dark, to talk to you at the foot of your stand at 6:00 am.

[Deer Wrastler]

Bad advice for new hunters in this thread.

Mods should lock and delete before some young kid get persuaded by the wrong person or thinks its cool/ok to break the law as some have implied.

[rick_iles]

What "official" time are you using or referring to? I don't believe there is an "official" time per se? It will always be the precise moment based on your location. The GPS will calculate that instantly or, if you have a copy of a Nautical Almanac and a sextant, you might be able to figure it out? lol

I have an App on my phone, Trimble Pro GPS Hunt. It gives me actual sun times, for wherever I am, using GPS coordinates....works very well ..

[Bowjob]

i use a sock or a soft rifle case i can sling onto my back.

[finsfurfeathers]

Again not the scenario as proposed...he's talking about sitting in your stand/blind prior to legal time.....not the parking lot or the entrance to the bush. COs will not walk in the bush, in the dark, to talk to you at the foot of you stand at 6:00 am.

Had a pair of Cos in a canoe paddle up to my duck blind opening day on mud lake. Its only assessable by a long winding canal from Lake St. John. It was an hour before sunrise and they were checking every one in the marsh that morning.

[MikePal]

i use a sock or a soft rifle case i can sling onto my back.

Gun is carried in the soft cover case, take it up into the stand, take out the gun and put in a 4' piece of 2x4 in it then lay it across the arm rests. Makes a great cushioned rest.

[LowbanksArcher]

This seems like a good thread for me to ask this question. I may, or not, have a habit of climbing down at dark and leaving my unencased bow securely tied to the tree so I don't have to carry it out and back in the morning. Is that breaking some rule?
Wait...let me start again. A guy that I know, may, or not, have a habit of....