Retrieving game after legal hours

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This is in SK and trying to make sense of it. Let's say I shoot in the last of 5 minutes of legal time and give my deer 20 minutes to die in peace.
The rule says that I'm suppose to call CO but I wonder how many people do it?
 
The law as written does not allow you to retrieve after dark. But I've never once heard of a problem, as long as the shot was taken during legal shooting time. CO's do have some common sense!
 
You have an obligation to retrieve your game, but you might want to unload and case your rifle afyer legal light though...
 
It is funny but it's the law. It happened to me last season when it took me a long time to find my buck. After I retrieved my buck I realized that it is a grey area and was a bit concerned. I was curious if anyone here ever had a problem.
 
mbogo3 said:
No CO's I've run into had common sense or manners.
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I met one a few years ago in Ontario. I thought at the time, if they were all like him .... polite, professional AND a sense of humour that their job would be a lot easier. Sadly, COs like that are incredibly scarce!
 
rkr said:
It is funny but it's the law. It happened to me last season when it took me a long time to find my buck. After I retrieved my buck I realized that it is a grey area and was a bit concerned. I was curious if anyone here ever had a problem.
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Never had a problem, never heard of a problem. Good on you for caring enough to worry about it.
 
In the deep south of Saskatchewan one season a deer I wounded ran onto posted land. It ran right past the NO HUNTING sign. So, rifles in their cases, drive to the farm entrance and walk out to speak to the farmer. Nope they wouldn't give me permission to follow the track and at least see if it had run onto the neighbours. Called the CO hotline, and one arrived rather promptly and he went to talk. The CO came back, and thanked me for calling him, but the farmers were right. Sorry but if it dies, it dies.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
In the deep south of Saskatchewan one season a deer I wounded ran onto posted land. It ran right past the NO HUNTING sign. So, rifles in their cases, drive to the farm entrance and walk out to speak to the farmer. Nope they wouldn't give me permission to follow the track and at least see if it had run onto the neighbours. Called the CO hotline, and one arrived rather promptly and he went to talk. The CO came back, and thanked me for calling him, but the farmers were right. Sorry but if it dies, it dies.
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Alberta now has a law that requires landowners to give hunters permission to retrieve game on their property. If the landowner refuses such permission, the hunter must call a CO and they inform the landowner of the hunters right to retrieve game.
 
Odinson said:
I met one a few years ago in Ontario. I thought at the time, if they were all like him .... polite, professional AND a sense of humour that their job would be a lot easier. Sadly, COs like that are incredibly scarce!
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I used to deer hunt with a CO and his deputies. They would tell stories of other COs and who is good and bad. One they mentioned was lazy, never leave his truck. He just wait there until the hunter comes out to the road to do a license check. There are a few bad apples in the bunch.
 
Cow Town Bill said:
Alberta now has a law that requires landowners to give hunters permission to retrieve game on their property. If the landowner refuses such permission, the hunter must call a CO and they inform the landowner of the hunters right to retrieve game.
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i am unaware of this new law. can you cite it?

As far as I know, land owners have the final say, regardless of what the CO thinks.
 
rkr said:
This is in SK and trying to make sense of it. Let's say I shoot in the last of 5 minutes of legal time and give my deer 20 minutes to die in peace.
The rule says that I'm suppose to call CO but I wonder how many people do it?
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Doesn't matter what everyone else does what matters is what would you do?
 
Cow Town Bill said:
Alberta now has a law that requires landowners to give hunters permission to retrieve game on their property. If the landowner refuses such permission, the hunter must call a CO and they inform the landowner of the hunters right to retrieve game.
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The landowner does not have to allow the hunters to enter the property. F&W will come, and they will try to convince the landowner to grant permission to enter the property, but they are not legally obligated to allow the hunter on the property. And if the landowner does allow the hunters to enter the property, he can make you enter the property on foot, and remove the animal, and all guts etc, on foot. And if you call F&W, the physical evidence had better show that the animal was shot before it entered the private land, and that no shots were fired after it entered private property.

i am unaware of this new law. can you cite it?

As far as I know, land owners have the final say, regardless of what the CO thinks.
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Unless there has been a violation, and the carcass is evidence, to be removed by the officers, then yes, you are correct. F&W can enter the property as part of their duty, but removing legally killed game animals is not part of their duty, and the hunters are not officers.

But feel free to show me specific legislation that has changed to force the landowner to allow hunters on his property to retrieve game. Not just a statement that there are new regulations, but reference to the specific regulation that states this, as in the section and subsection of the Wildlife Act.
 
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