Boston Bar road block

Compete stopage off all south bound traffic on the HWY 1 at boston bar for a check point run in concert by atleast 6 RCMP and 6 Conservation officers....

I would Imaging a game check but they had the hwy stopped and were talking to EVERY vehicle.... Not sure its legal but the cops seem to make up the rules as they go along these days.
 
Boombb said:
Compete stopage off all south bound traffic on the HWY 1 at boston bar for a check point run in concert by atleast 6 RCMP and 6 Conservation officers....

I would Imaging a game check but they had the hwy stopped and were talking to EVERY vehicle.... Not sure its legal but the cops seem to make up the rules as they go along these days.
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If the RCMP are talking with every car that sounds like a road block searching from someone of interest and the CO's might just be there to kill two birds with one stone.
 
drache said:
If the RCMP are talking with every car that sounds like a road block searching from someone of interest and the CO's might just be there to kill two birds with one stone.
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That's the normal MO.

Happens every hunting season outside Lake Cowichan on Hwy 18 as well.

Funny how they are never around to bust the poachers...only around to harass those that follow the rules and hunt during the season etc etc. :rolleyes:
 
also happens at cache creek every year. But the poachers know to travel at night because every one of those cache creek road blocks is shut down at dusk :eek:
 
Game checks at Cache Creek used to run 24/7, almost the entire hunting season. There were at least two signs indicating teh check was ahead and stating that all hunters and every vehicle with guns, MUST pull into the check. Still, they caught a considerable number of hunters with loaded rifles in the vehicle!
I knew some of the game personnell that helped operate the game check. One fellow told me it was a scary job. He said a a carload of hunters would pull in, the doors would fly open and you would be looking down the muzzles of about four rifles, as the guys piled out with them. And he said you knew that a certain percentage of the rifles would be loaded, with the cartridge invarriably right up the spout!
 
I've been stopped afew times on the big hill in North Bay( hwy 11) Opp, CO, an MOT!
Watched two very drunk fellas spil out of truck that had two very nice bulls. I'm sure their hunt was OVER!!!! JITC
 
We always hit the bug hill at North Bay on HWY11 as well unless we go up 144 instead.

This year we ran into 3 on the bush roads in 6 days. OPP one day and 2 different MNR guys - one traveling along with what appeared to be 2 OPP plain clothes officers in an unmarked truck.

Each wrote down our hunting card numbers along with what caliber each was shooting, plus the usual checking of guns to be unloaded. I suspect that they were looking for something specific as they didn't even ask about the grouse we had.
 
We hit one of those road blocks last year bow hunting during rifle season. The guy I was with is a long haired half asian guy wearing an iron maiden Tshirt...not exactly who you'd expect to find out in the bush. He was just along to see what hunting was all about (he's getting his CORE now). The cops were demanding to see firearms liscences.
"I'm bowhunting, no firearms liscence cause I don't have any firearms."
"So your firearms are unliscenced?"
"NO, I'm bowhunting!" my bow was sitting on the backseat of my F250, clearly visible.
"So where are your guns?"
"I don't have any, I'm bowhunting."
"So are there any guns in the vehicle?"
"NO! I'm bowhunting!"
This kept on for a few minutes, RCMP just chomping at the bit to bust me for unliscenced firearms, doing everything but climbing into the truck, he even pulled a couple empty beer cans out of the box and sniffed 'em.
The CO came walking up from the back of the truck, stopped, read the bumper stickers ("Observe, Record, Report" and "Hunter's and Fishermen, the first environmentalists are still the best"), CO came to the window, pulled the RCMP away, spoke to him, came up, checked my hunting liscence and sent us on our way.
 
my friend went through the same b.s. at heffly creek, with a cop over a flintlock rifle , the cop couldnt get it through his head that flinters arent registered, was going to confiscate it till another cop came over to see the arguement and told him he was wrong,,wade
 
jiminthecorner said:
I've been stopped afew times on the big hill in North Bay( hwy 11) Opp, CO, an MOT!
Watched two very drunk fellas spil out of truck that had two very nice bulls. I'm sure their hunt was OVER!!!! JITC
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Thibault hill is the name of the big hill in NB you are referring to and yes it's an annual event as they check guys going through there. Another spot to watch is just a few more miles North on 11 at the Sand Dam turn-off(North Bay Landfill site). The O.P.P set up there regularily, sometimes in conjunction with M.T.O and do trailer inspections during the hunting season. Check to make sure loads are secured properly, trailers aren't overloaded and even that Truck/Trailer combinations arent exceeding their GVRW rating. Saw them handing out many tickets there fall before last when I was running sand fill to the dump. Looking at the way some guys secure stuff to their trailers made it understandable but seems the gov't mandates them to pick the pockets of hunters come fall. Sure irks me sometimes!
 
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