Anyone here use a bicycle to get to and from their hunting area ?
Keen to hear how you are transporting your rifle.
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Anyone here use a bicycle to get to and from their hunting area ?
Keen to hear how you are transporting your rifle.
I don't but have come up with this issue in the past.It ultimately depends what other bag/pack you are carrying.
A big pack with a scabbard or way of attaching rifle to pack is easy.
No bag/pack is easy if you have a good sling.
Small bag or day pack that you can' attach a rifle to is the most difficult.
If the bag isn't too big and/or heavy, sling your rifle over your back and put the bag over the top.
Otherwise could try slinging rifle on your front and wearing the back pack normally, or bag on front and rifle on back.
Yeah, I've done a few trips on the mountainbike. I used to use a pack with a scabbard down the back, but had issues with either the bottom of the scabbard rubbing on the rear wheel or the stock hitting me in the back of the head. Now I just strap my rifle to the side of my pack. The rifle isn't the problem, it's the super-heavy pack on the way out ;P I'd love to get myself a trailer, the BOB yak looks to be the best style for hauling a load over singletrack.
I have often jumped on my scooter (nifty50) and scooted down the road with my gun in a gun bag over my shoulder. This was awhile ago now , dunno if id do it now tho. I was going heading to my sisters in laws house to shoot some rabbits she had on her front lawn.
Any photos of the scabbard ?Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
This is the issue I've had, rifle tends to slide around a bit and hard to get to quickly if a deer is handy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beetroot
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Hahahahahaha. He can't be that stupid? Surely????Quote:
Originally Posted by striker
It isn't a push bike but this is the system we used on the pest board. there is a bracket that bolts onto the bike frame that the leather scabbard slides onto. the rubber band stops a lot of the movement of the scabbard on rough ground. Used this system for 20+ years and works well. If you have to drop the bike try to drop it on the other side otherwise damage to rifle could result, but in saying that I never wreaked rifle in all my time shooting despite a few ass ups.
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Sounds like a good excuse to buy a take down rifle.
@Mooseman that idea will work even better on a newer upside down forked bike.
I used 75mm pvc on my RM250 15years or ago, no scopes tho, double barrel shottie and homemade slugs
bush bashing old forestry tracks looking for spotlighting possies. way too quick of a bike for purpose:thumbsup: walking was way more productive:ORLY:
That's what i need only if i could find somebody to make oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Mooseman
Bicycle infantry was an idea for a while, might get some neat ideas out of that:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rifl...w=1920&bih=920
i did on on an mtb once
the advice i give is disc brakes!!!!
rim type brakes and wet grass is a recipe for disaster and the end of a leupold scope
I use a mountain bike quite a bit for a few places I hunt as I can often ride the first 5 or 10km. All I do is put the sling over my head just the same as I would if walking and don't want to hold the rifle or attach it to the pack. It works ok, occasionally the rifle will slide round the front but if it catches on a strap , it then holds it back in position.
Nice. You never let on you have wrangled both the velocipede and equine . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
Thanks @7mmwsm, I have an old Lee Enfield canvas bag that might be just the thing for trying that setup :thumbsup:
Velocipedes are ok, the equines I am terrified of :D
I have used MTB for a large % of my hunting in NZ over the last 15 or so years. Both for transport and actively hunting.
for transport a single wheeled trailer is king if your going somewhere YOU are capable of taking it as it make carrying a any sort of load much easier than trying to have a pack. If you can't then a take down rifle is king, some bike frames lend them selves well to old army bike sleeve style cary like others above have shown but have seen both damaged rifles and bikes from people doing this of full suspension bikes that ended up using more travel than expected. Air shocks for the win as easy to shane pressure for the extra weight compared to bikes normal use.
for hunting from the bike(best way to surprise deer imho)some sort of handle bar mount like people use on farm bikes works ok- I found guns with just a hammer to pull back(BLR and TC) to be the best for the fast transition from cary to shooting that bike hunting often needs. All my mtb have either 780 or 800 wide bars so its fairly easy to have something that doesn't stick out to far each side is you don't mind the weight distribution on your bars being funky.
Following with interest now. After a jaunt down the river bed and bike tracks, managing to sneak up on numerous birds. Tossing up between gun over the shoulder, or handle bar holder. The suspension is soft enuf that it wouldn’t shake around, and it’ll be ready in an instant. Much easier to conceal as well. Trailer has a lot of merit to. Got enuf spare parts around to knock something up.
This thread is making me miss my 6.5 Grendel AR15 which packed down to fit in a day pack. :(
ta, might go visit them when we are released from jail :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
