found a hunt camp in the bush....

[popcan]

and this camp had a little deer hanging.... a really small deer. I would have been suprised if it was more that 125 lbs. No one around.

The thing is, where the camp was situated, deer would have had to be 4 points or better, which this deer was certainly not! How ever, crossing the main road 400 yards north would have put me in a different zone where this little deer would have been legal. The hunters likely shot the deer in a legal zone and brought it back to their camp.

So my question is; if a C/O comes across this deer, will they be hassled about where the deer was shot, and have to prove it?

 

[2fat2fly]

They'll have to give an account of the shooting. Gut pile, drag trail, etc.
Common problem around Hudson Bay, Sask. There is forrestry on one side of the road, and farmland on the other. Forrestry has a second antlerless tag, farm land doesn't.

 

[MiG25]

They'll have to give an account of the shooting. Gut pile, drag trail, etc.
Common problem around Hudson Bay, Sask. There is forrestry on one side of the road, and farmland on the other. Forrestry has a second antlerless tag, farm land doesn't.

from what i have seen in southern bc, there will be no gutpile the next morning.

different regs in nearby areas is common, in alberta the trunk road used to be (still is???) the dividing line between 6 point elk and 3 point elk, and i think draw mule deer and open season.

 

[Fox]

I think it would depend on the guy investigating. Around our camp in Eastern Ontario you could be hunting out of 5 zones in the same day and from the same camp, I don't know what they would do, but I believe if you remain legal it should work out in your favour.

 

[bronco_mudder]

I think it would depend on the guy investigating.

I agree, as well as the attitude of the hunter/hunters "in question". There are good guys, and a**holes when it comes to conservation officers, but it's the same for hunters. If a hunter gives attitude to the CO, chances are the CO is going to give the hunter a hard time. Act civil and for the most part things remain that way...unless of course as mentioned the attending CO is a dink anyway.

 

[popcan]

I Around our camp in Eastern Ontario you could be hunting out of 5 zones in the same day and from the same camp,

Our area is a convergance of 4 zones, and the stupid regs switch back and forth during the season.... one week it's 4 points on one side of the road, then later it's 4 points on the other side. Then, no kidding, back again later on!

Can't understand the logic of it, but with rules like that, I'm there's lots of potential for deer being shot legally, but hanging in the wrong zone.

 

[2fat2fly]

from what i have seen in southern bc, there will be no gutpile the next morning.

different regs in nearby areas is common, in alberta the trunk road used to be (still is???) the dividing line between 6 point elk and 3 point elk, and i think draw mule deer and open season.

The gutpile may be gone if it's been more than a few hours, but there will still be tracks, scrape marks and such showing the location.

 

[Gatehouse]

The CO will likely just check the hunters tags to see what region he shot it in.

Very unlikely he is going to take the time to investigate a gutpile for a non 4 pt deer 400 yards from a any buck area.

 

[MiG25]

The gutpile may be gone if it's been more than a few hours, but there will still be tracks, scrape marks and such showing the location.

i wouldn't count on it, where i do most of my hunting the ground is rock hard. and there is nothing to say that there would be drag marks, ie it might have been loaded straight onto a quad.

i have my doubts that the CO would even make an issue out of a small deer in a area with multiple zones with differing rules...... unless the hunters are beaking off or there are other infractions.

 

[Gatehouse]

A couple of years ago, I shot a deer that was polite enough to run out of the cutblock and onto the road before dying. We gutted it, took it back to camp, hung it....

An hour later we passed the same spot. Ravens had left nothign behind but a stian, one hour later.

 

[DarrylDB]

An hour later we passed the same spot. Ravens had left nothign behind but a stian, one hour later.

See, there will be reminants of a gutpile for a few weeks. Even if its scavanged to nothing, the blood/fat/fluid trail willl be on the ground until a few heavy rains.
I've seen killsites that were scavenged before snow that still had signs of blood and color after the snow left.

 

[bone-collector]

well ravens dont eat the stomach contents IE grasses and mulch