I've been doing a bit of scouting for a good hunting spot this year and I think I might have found just the spot. Only problem is that there is a trail for hikers I would need to use for a little ways and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with the fact I would have a rifle slung over my shoulder and a kill with me while I'm in the presence of non hunters. Has anyone been in a situation like this?
Encountering people on a trail to your hunting spot
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What are you hunting for? Small game or big game? If it is crown land you have a legal right to hunt there and it is illegal for anyone to disrupt you during your hunt. However, I personal dislike seeing anyone for any reason when hunting... we het a long ways back into the bush usually involving two or three portages... I just breath a whole lot freer when I feel really connected to wilderness... but this is not an option for many, so you have to be prepared to share the field with other users. Be respectful and safe.
I passed a camp of ... well, campers while I was going hiking/plinking on crown land with my trusty 22. When I came back, I had a white plastic bag in hand and one of them asked me if I had bagged anything. I showed them the empty beer cans I had collected along the way, put against a rock wall and duly executed (several time just for safety). They seemed a little surprised, but happy. (edit: the campers, not the cans) 
Where I'm from it's not uncommon to see people walking on 100 series highways with a rifle, especially during deer season. I'd personally try to be discreet with downed game out of courtesy but if everything is legal I wouldn't let them stop me from hunting.
When I worked at Tims as a young lad I remember how the DT girls would react when someone would come through with a deer tied to the hood.
When I worked at Tims as a young lad I remember how the DT girls would react when someone would come through with a deer tied to the hood.
It happens lots on Haida Gwaii as long as your not shooting I ther directions Who cares
If you run into them on the trail just be polite and courteous and don't worry about it you both have rights to enjoy the wild
If you run into them on the trail just be polite and courteous and don't worry about it you both have rights to enjoy the wild
There is a guy in our town with an old K car, and every year he parades around town with his fresh kill bleeding all over the hood of the car.
Most people are shocked, women scream, children cry ...
Most people are shocked, women scream, children cry ...
If it were me, and I happened to see any campers/hikers on my way in and they were on for a chat I would tell them I am going to be hunting deer/moose whatever back up here a mile or two so if you hear shooting don't worry, its me.....and see how the discussion goes.
I have had hikers come past me on the Bruce Trail while deer hunting in ONT and usually we have a chat and away they go and that's that.
I have had hikers come past me on the Bruce Trail while deer hunting in ONT and usually we have a chat and away they go and that's that.
I was playing around on a hotel estate in South Africa a couple years back. They had quite a bit of land, enough that the "grounds " had enough area that it includes what passed for a mountain in those parts. There were trails that guests and hikers travelled and at the same time there was some very subtle population trimming on the resident wildlife to keep the numbers manageable and baboons scared of people.. Anyways, I was wandering around with an older PH there, mostly because his son managed it and there was an extravagant buffet we wanted to hit while travelling. We did a bit of (non hunting)hiking and talking and the topic of hunting close to tourists and guests came up. What he had for a system was that if he met hikers on the trails he would move off the trail a ways, set down his rifle, turn his back on them and pretend to take a piss. Almost everyone would look the other way and hustle past while pretending not to notice. Nobody was ever going to leave the trail to harass an old guy with his #### out.
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I run int Quadders all the time while hunting, always ready to have a pleasent chat, never encountered anyone that had a problem with me hunting.
And when hunting I have a few plastic bags to use when picking up the cans and bottles that I find along the trail.
And when hunting I have a few plastic bags to use when picking up the cans and bottles that I find along the trail.
Coming out of a hunting area two years ago I ran into about 40 kids (grade 3 or 4 maybe) and a few adults on a field trip. Nobody screamed or cried, just a couple questions asking if I bagged anything.
Don't worry about it. Even if someone puts up a stink, it's your right to be there. Hunting is a wholesome past time and one should not be hiding in the shadows just because one hunts.
Don't worry about it. Even if someone puts up a stink, it's your right to be there. Hunting is a wholesome past time and one should not be hiding in the shadows just because one hunts.
