Aerial scouting

[gasman]

Wasn't a law passed prohibiting aerial scouting? I was up in the Wyoming range this weekend and both Friday and Saturday morning there was a plane flying pretty low and slow over the Salts. Hard to prove they were scouting, but it seemed pretty obvious. Is it another unenforceable laws?

 

[DoubleDropMuley]

Yup the law is in place from August 1st. I'm sure they were breaking the law but be hard to prove. I say shoot them down and collect evidence lol

 

[TOPGUN]

More than likely they were cheaters and they are in all facets of our lives. For the most part it's like any other law and the hope is that the vast majority of people will honor it. Unless you could get numbers off the plane and possibly some pictures or video I think it will be hard to prosecute. Also, if a rancher legally has cattle on public land all he has to say is he was checking his animals. it might be a bit harder for an outfitter in the area to get away with that excuse. I wonder if Robb Wiley is still flying his hunt area up there.

 

[RoadlessHunter]

I heard a plane buzzing up and down the canyons this weekend, but never made a visual. The sad truth is every scouting trip I've been on this year we have seen airplanes flying low up and down the canyons.

 

[gasman]

White with blue trim

 

[wildfin]

A game warden told me in 30 that they were after coyotes and they worked for the state,but they were over a bull we had bedded there,but latter found wounded coyotes were they circled.I guess there friends know were to go.

 

[jm77]

You have optics correct? Get the numbers and turn them in....

 

[Triple_BB]

Guess with the Monstermuley police everyone is guilty until proven innocent?

Regarding the yotes, all you need is an aerial gunners license and this law will be virtually impossible to enforce.

 

[Founder]

In my 16 days of scouting up there so far this year I haven't seen any low flying planes myself. I hear them, and start looking, but they've all been high. None that I thought were looking for game.

Brian Latturner
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[mntnguide]

Ive been in the highcountry down there for the past 3 weekends...Ive had planes low and around me each one. The first weekend..I could see the faces of the pilot and passenger and I gave them my thoughts with my gestures...I had watched them circle over every peak and drainage until they got to where I was, and they proceeded to circle numerous times UNDER the elevation my tent was at...I did write down Tail #s for future reference, but back then it was still July. . In all reality, Like ive said all along with this law, I highly doubt anything would ever come of turning in a plane. A pilot can go fly his plane for fun...how will they prove he was looking for deer? and the wardens have plenty of other things going on than chasing tail #s of grumpy DIY hunters...

 

[jm77]

>Regarding the yotes, all you need
>is an aerial gunners license
>and this law will be
>virtually impossible to enforce.
>


I'm sure you and your outfitter looked into this already. Did you both get one or just him?

 

[Triple_BB]

Don't know about him, but my application is pending...

 

[TOPGUN]

Sad BBB, very very sad!

 

[RoadlessHunter]

I have no problem with them flying and following the law. I was just surprised at the amount of fly going on. A couple weeks ago the plane circled around and flew 50 feet above the herd of deer we were observing.

 

[TOPGUN]

IMHO it's too bad they couldn't make the date 7/1, rather than 8/1. However, it they were that low it seems a little ridiculous, as well as dangerous. I'm surprised some yahoo hasn't shot at one if they come down that low and bother you or the animals.

 

[jm77]

>I have no problem with them
>flying and following the law.
> I was just surprised
>at the amount of fly
>going on. A couple
>weeks ago the plane circled
>around and flew 50 feet
>above the herd of deer
>we were observing.


When they fly that low they are guilty of a totally different statute and it doesn't matter the date. It is big game harassment. There is also a federal statute that deals with aircraft harassment of big game..

Get the numbers and turn them in.

MM Police

 

[gasman]

I was talking to a guy who flies today, he said there is a place in Afton that sells planes specifically for mountain flying, I wonder if theres a lot of test flying going on.

 

[elks96]

So is this an issue in some of the lesser general type of units? I took a good buck in region W years ago, and since then we have had a heck of time finding better bucks.

Do you think people are flying the top units mainly? I have seen the wildlife officers flying for counts in late winter spring but nothing else.

 

[Founder]

LAST EDITED ON Aug-27-16 AT 09:02AM (MST)[p]Well, 25 mornings of scouting the high country in Wyoming this summer and I never did have a plane fly low over me.
Didn't even hear many planes, but when I did, I was looking to see if they were flying low somewhere. None.
Hopefully it's a method of scouting that people will give up on.

Brian Latturner
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[jm77]

>LAST EDITED ON Aug-27-16
>AT 09:02?AM (MST)
>
>Well, 25 mornings of scouting the
>high country in Wyoming this
>summer and I never did
>have a plane fly low
>over me.
>Didn't even hear many planes, but
>when I did, I was
>looking to see if they
>were flying low somewhere. None.
>
>Hopefully it's a method of scouting
>that people will give up
>on.
>
>Brian Latturner
>MonsterMuleys.com
>LIKE MonsterMuleys.com on Facebook!

This is good news for wildlife and hunters. Most sportsman abide by the law and from what I am hearing around the state, that is the case with the new aircraft regulation. I am told that in some areas, there was flying in late July for both deer and elk.

 

[snowsheep]

Had a helicopter working the country I was scouting in H on July 30....low and slow for a couple hours that I observed on every high ridge and bowl in sight.