Noob question, can I take wife hunting w/o her licensed?
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I don't know about there, but I think here the high-visibility clothing requirement for hunters still is also applied to persons accompanying them. As always, check the regulations of the jurisdiction you are in.
(If it was about safety, wouldn't the Conservation Officers be wearing it, too?)
Not sure about others but here's what I will do:
Contact your local WMU ahead of time tell them your intention on bringing a non-hunter and ask what she can / can't do when you will be going and make sure record their names so in the case you confront with a less knowledgeable CO at least you can proof that she is not hunting.
I am sure 99.9% of the CO are good guys and won't give your a hard time if you comply with the law.
The last thing you want is she's get a ticket or worst a summon that she has to take time off school work etc travel to the area court to explain to the judge because CO don't write the law just enforce it and it will be a nightmare if the CO don't believe you then it is up to you (your girl friend) to explain to the judge.
Contact your local WMU ahead of time tell them your intention on bringing a non-hunter and ask what she can / can't do when you will be going and make sure record their names so in the case you confront with a less knowledgeable CO at least you can proof that she is not hunting.
I am sure 99.9% of the CO are good guys and won't give your a hard time if you comply with the law.
The last thing you want is she's get a ticket or worst a summon that she has to take time off school work etc travel to the area court to explain to the judge because CO don't write the law just enforce it and it will be a nightmare if the CO don't believe you then it is up to you (your girl friend) to explain to the judge.
Like the majority of everyone else I started off by tagging along with my dad on grouse hunts. Wasnt allowed to go on the deer hunt until I actually had a license. In over 25 years of hunting I can count all the COs I have run into in the bush on one hand and still have 4 fingers and 1 thumb left over. My only encounter with a CO was when we returned to shore after fishing once.
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we, the class, were told the same thing when i took my hunter safety course. they said if we have someone with us who did not possess an outdoors card they should stay in the car or at the camp site.
Seriously? thats like saying everyone riding in the car should have a drivers licence. seems like they are just trying to reduce the number of hunters one generation at a time.
Not really.
Hunting is defined in Ontario as:
Includes lying in wait for, searching for, being on the trail of, pursuing, chasing or shooting at wildlife, whether or not the wildlife is killed, injured, captured or harassed. You need a hunting licence to do any of these things, except where the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act states otherwise.
I have put in bold what your partner would be participating in.
Here's something to think about - if she has her Outdoors card, and gets her license, you've just doubled your bag limit.
That's why I got my fishing license last year. Fishing does not interest me at all. But the gf loves it. So, I went down to the lake with her, her brother and the dog. I sat in the grass with the dog while they fished, but then we could bring 6 pickerel back instead of 4.
Cannon
That's why I got my fishing license last year. Fishing does not interest me at all. But the gf loves it. So, I went down to the lake with her, her brother and the dog. I sat in the grass with the dog while they fished, but then we could bring 6 pickerel back instead of 4.
Cannon
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