Can you shoot pen-raised game birds off season?
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thepolinator
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Read section 445.1(1) (d) of the criminal code. Your suggested activity may fall under that definition.
newbreedfarm.ca This place is 5 minutes from my house and that is exactly what they do. Pelee Island has made an industry of farmed pheasant hunts. There must be some allowance/ variance from the criminal code section quoted.
Just to clarify. You pay for farm raised birds to be released and you shoot them.
thepolinator
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My job requires me to be familiar with the criminal code
How in hell do you train dogs without live birds? I have been to trials in Alberta where birds are shot as part of the trial and as as far as I know no one has ever been charged. That sounds like an SPCA or PETA influenced law to me.
I thought pigeons were vermin not game birds. They are treated as such in my area at any rate.
(d) promotes, arranges, conducts, assists in, receives money for or takes part in any meeting, competition, exhibition, pastime, practice, display or event at or in the course of which captive birds are liberated by hand, trap, contrivance or any other means for the purpose of being shot when they are liberated; or
I'm no lawyer, but to me that's talking about shooting them straight out of the box/trap, or releasing one by hand while another beside you shoots it. If you release them into the wild and then hunt, a different thing.
I'm no lawyer, but to me that's talking about shooting them straight out of the box/trap, or releasing one by hand while another beside you shoots it. If you release them into the wild and then hunt, a different thing.
thepolinator
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Interestingly I just found this page on the province of Ontario's website. ontario.ca/page/release-birds-hunting-private-land
This seems to agree with Grains post above
This seems to agree with Grains post above
New Camper
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^^^ this. It's in the bold text... "when they are liberated" not "after they are liberated". I'm not sure there is much reasoning behind this except to force a particular definition of sportsmanship...(can't say I disagree, but I despise the issue of force...) I expect whole bit of the CC on animal cruelty is motivated by those intentionally being cruel as clearly there is exception to wasting people's domestic pets that are harassing/threat to livestock. Of course I'm not naive to ignore the fact leftards are always seeking angles to ban hunting... one of the last few reasons they still concede is a legitimate purpose for owning guns.
I think it refers to the way they used to conduct live pigeon shoot competitions where the bird was released for a trap and the shooter had to knock it down before it got out of a perscribed circle. Another form was a guy would hold the bird and pitch it and the shooter then takes the bird. There was big money in those competitions.
constructoman
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In Ontario. Game birds , pen raised can only be shot during the open season
The pheasant season does not run sept to end of april in the regs i have yet those are the times all the farmed hunts take place. Nesting and raising young is the cause for the downtime
Its still a thing in some countries. I hear the super-wealthy in the middle east still do it, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could do something very similar in a lot of impoverished nations - as they say, money talks.
Im saying sanctioned clubs do these though. They are scored events. I haven't been to one but I am literally training a dog for this.
