Bystander tapes poachers taking a deer
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It is going to have to be some pretty fine detective work to catch these clowns and have a conviction stick.
Seen the footage of the incident...good on the person taping the event and contacting the enforcement branch though.
Do hope some loose lips get these clowns ...and at least they have their day in court to defend themselves.
Rob
Seen the footage of the incident...good on the person taping the event and contacting the enforcement branch though.
Do hope some loose lips get these clowns ...and at least they have their day in court to defend themselves.
Rob
Looks like a typical hunting season in Saskatchewan. Just about everyone hunts from their vehicles or discharges firearms from the road allowance when an easy opportunity presents itself. There are so few hunters that actually walk around in search of animals anymore. Most just pick a field along a creek or with several small bluffs of bush that can easily be accessed and just drive the areas with a loaded high power rifle on the seat beside them. Some people think that's not hunting but when a majority of the hunters are doing it...it becomes the norm.
Only way you'd know this is if you were doing the same thing. Get off your high horse and speak for yourself and not everyone else in the province.
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- Jameson, SK
Agreed.
I don't hunt much, but when I do there's no shortage of trudging up and down coulees.
There are 1000's of law abiding hunters hunters here in Sask and you get a know it all troll Umchunk2 making a blanket statements about all of us..guys like that are usually the worst offenders against wildlife.
I can't count how many miles Ive walked for pheasant in south sask or elk up in Green water this year and Im not alone....All my hunting buddies have done the same. If you choose to hunt from a truck there is nothing wrong with that either. For a clown to say that a typical hunting season in Sask is poaching off roadways shows he knows very little and has a small closed mind. His thinking is very much inline with a how a racist thinks. Then again we all know he is troll with all the drivel he posts on here.
There certainly are poachers in Sask but they are not the majority.
Talk about hunting in Saskatchewan, in the South West in particular: I drive around on the prairie with my truck until I can spot a deer in a distance. Get my gear on, go for hike for a quiet approach and go for the kill. In some cases I've walked less then 250 yards and in others I've walked more then 1000 yards. This is how it works when you call SW Saskatchewan home.
I thought SK was so flat you could spot a deer for 2k and watch your dog run away for 3 days?
I thought SK was so flat you could spot a deer for 2k and watch your dog run away for 3 days?
Good one. Not so flat in the SW.
i go through more pairs of boots than truck tyres
Truck hunting is like a right of passage in the prairie provinces. Personally, I don't do it but I've seriously thought about hammering a buck/bull on many occasions on the roadside after walking from sunset to sundown and seeing sweet jack all worth pulling a trigger for. There are a huge number of guys that cruise grid roads shooting coyotes and beavers or pretty much whatever else moves just for fun.
I can cover 10 miles walking in a day or cover 10 miles in a truck in 10 minutes. You have to wonder how many guys are actually going to pass on an easy opportunity when one presents itself. After walking 4 days and 40 miles in a 13,000 acre PFRA then seeing a buck off the gravel around sundown the last thing I want is more work that comes from shooting and butchering a 200+ pound 3.5 year old or older deer.
It's hard to believe that with how common truck/quad hunting is that more charges aren't laid and vehicles and firearms confiscated. But the truth is, conservation officers are too busy in their offices issuing $10 find and retain permits for dead wildlife or just avoiding the cold entirely.
I can cover 10 miles walking in a day or cover 10 miles in a truck in 10 minutes. You have to wonder how many guys are actually going to pass on an easy opportunity when one presents itself. After walking 4 days and 40 miles in a 13,000 acre PFRA then seeing a buck off the gravel around sundown the last thing I want is more work that comes from shooting and butchering a 200+ pound 3.5 year old or older deer.
It's hard to believe that with how common truck/quad hunting is that more charges aren't laid and vehicles and firearms confiscated. But the truth is, conservation officers are too busy in their offices issuing $10 find and retain permits for dead wildlife or just avoiding the cold entirely.
When I lived out there that was pretty much the way of it. A good hard days hunt for a lot of guys was two tanks of gas and a couple pee stops. And usually an empty truck, too.
Had one fellow at work ask me how come I alway seemed to get my deer, when he always had them run away by the time he got his gun out. I told him it was because he drove over the hill, and I walked.
Worst I saw was down by Coderre, where I watched a couple guys pushing bush with their Dodge camper van. A doe got up and ran, and they went after it across the field, the guy with the rifle riding on the driver side step, hanging off the mirror, while they went across the field after her. Crazy!
Best thing I can say about hunting in that area was that once you got at least one hill between you and the road, you pretty much had the place to yourself.
Cheers
Trev
Went hunt in a provincial graze land this year for the first time in a while, and same old same old there, while not technically road, there sure is a lot of road warriors, I was sitting in a make shift ground blind near the top of a hill and I couldnt believe the amount of times I got scoped from vehicles at about 600 yds, kinda pissed me off actually.
