Slooshark1
CGN frequent flyer
I'm not sure if I'm in the wrong here so I'm asking your opinion.
I went away fishing at a friends camp in Westree, ON for the May long weekend. There were about 15 guys in total. I decided to through my 870 Wingmaster with slug barrel in the truck. "Just in case." I had a Ziploc bag with some slugs and bear bangers. We drove to a lake and launched the boat and fished for the day. When we got back to the landing and were unloading our boats, the game warden showed up. Okay, no big deal. He checked our licenses and coolers and everything was good. He then opened the back door to my truck and said, "Who's firearm?" I said, "That's mine." He said, "For what reason do you have a firearm in your truck?" I said, "I don't have a reason. I was going away fishing for the weekend and just thought I'd throw it in the truck in case I needed it."
"What would you need it for?" He asked. I said, "I don't know but if I did, I would be glad to have had it."
He took my gun and my fishing/hunting license, driver's license and my PAL to his truck to make some calls. The other three guys that I was standing with were all worried. I had actually forgotten that it was even in the truck. I had it covered up and out of sight and the truck was locked.
He comes back with my gun and said, "There's no plug in this shotgun, There's no trigger lock on it. You can't hunt with a shotgun with no plug in it and you don't even have a valid small game license." I said, "But I'm not hunting." He said, "I suggest that you keep this locked up at home and not bring it out if it's not hunting season." He said, "If I had caught you with this in the boat, you would be getting charged for poaching." He asked me, "Why wouldn't you have left it at camp?" I told him, "I don't know all of the guys at the camp, I'm not leaving it there with them." Nobody in the camp even knew I had a gun with me. I wasn't advertising. I told him that I did have a trigger lock for it at the camp in my duffle bag and told him that I would put it on when I got to the camp. I had forgotten that there was no plug in the gun, but again, I wasn't actually hunting. I went on to tell the game warden that I always carry a gun with me when travelling alone. It makes me feel safer. (God hasn't anyone watched Deliverance, Blair Witch Project and Wrong Turn?)
He wrote down all of the information off my shotgun and then gave me my shotgun back and drove away. I was so flusterred, that I didn't even think to ask him for my licenses back. So we're on the highway, half way back to Westree when I realize that he never gave me back my driver's license, PAL and hunting fishing license. I don't even know where the guys office is or what his name is or anything. He showed up at the camp in the evening and gave them back to me.
When I got back to the camp, I cut a stick for a plug and I put the trigger lock on the gun and locked it up in the truck out of sight.
So the next day we're out fishing and we packed up to go to another lake and saw two game wardens on the side of the road loading up a boat on a trailer. We pulled over to say hello and see what was new. One of the game wardens came over and chatted with us. He asked if he could have a look in our cooler and we told him sure. The second game warden was the fellow from the day before. He walked up and asked me where the shotgun was. I told him it was behind me, locked, with the plug in and stored out of site. He asked me again, what reason I had carrying a shotgun and I told him again, "Because it makes me feel safer." I didn't want to tell him that it was for protection from bears because then he might charge me with poaching bears, which I most certainly was not doing.
I was a little embarrassed in front of the guys I was fishing with because they all hunt but they're not quite into guns as much as I am and would never think of bringing a gun on a fishing trip. I wasn't showing it off or shooting at the moon with it at midnight so I don't see what the big deal is.
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't do anything wrong.
I went away fishing at a friends camp in Westree, ON for the May long weekend. There were about 15 guys in total. I decided to through my 870 Wingmaster with slug barrel in the truck. "Just in case." I had a Ziploc bag with some slugs and bear bangers. We drove to a lake and launched the boat and fished for the day. When we got back to the landing and were unloading our boats, the game warden showed up. Okay, no big deal. He checked our licenses and coolers and everything was good. He then opened the back door to my truck and said, "Who's firearm?" I said, "That's mine." He said, "For what reason do you have a firearm in your truck?" I said, "I don't have a reason. I was going away fishing for the weekend and just thought I'd throw it in the truck in case I needed it."
"What would you need it for?" He asked. I said, "I don't know but if I did, I would be glad to have had it."
He took my gun and my fishing/hunting license, driver's license and my PAL to his truck to make some calls. The other three guys that I was standing with were all worried. I had actually forgotten that it was even in the truck. I had it covered up and out of sight and the truck was locked.
He comes back with my gun and said, "There's no plug in this shotgun, There's no trigger lock on it. You can't hunt with a shotgun with no plug in it and you don't even have a valid small game license." I said, "But I'm not hunting." He said, "I suggest that you keep this locked up at home and not bring it out if it's not hunting season." He said, "If I had caught you with this in the boat, you would be getting charged for poaching." He asked me, "Why wouldn't you have left it at camp?" I told him, "I don't know all of the guys at the camp, I'm not leaving it there with them." Nobody in the camp even knew I had a gun with me. I wasn't advertising. I told him that I did have a trigger lock for it at the camp in my duffle bag and told him that I would put it on when I got to the camp. I had forgotten that there was no plug in the gun, but again, I wasn't actually hunting. I went on to tell the game warden that I always carry a gun with me when travelling alone. It makes me feel safer. (God hasn't anyone watched Deliverance, Blair Witch Project and Wrong Turn?)
He wrote down all of the information off my shotgun and then gave me my shotgun back and drove away. I was so flusterred, that I didn't even think to ask him for my licenses back. So we're on the highway, half way back to Westree when I realize that he never gave me back my driver's license, PAL and hunting fishing license. I don't even know where the guys office is or what his name is or anything. He showed up at the camp in the evening and gave them back to me.
When I got back to the camp, I cut a stick for a plug and I put the trigger lock on the gun and locked it up in the truck out of sight.
So the next day we're out fishing and we packed up to go to another lake and saw two game wardens on the side of the road loading up a boat on a trailer. We pulled over to say hello and see what was new. One of the game wardens came over and chatted with us. He asked if he could have a look in our cooler and we told him sure. The second game warden was the fellow from the day before. He walked up and asked me where the shotgun was. I told him it was behind me, locked, with the plug in and stored out of site. He asked me again, what reason I had carrying a shotgun and I told him again, "Because it makes me feel safer." I didn't want to tell him that it was for protection from bears because then he might charge me with poaching bears, which I most certainly was not doing.
I was a little embarrassed in front of the guys I was fishing with because they all hunt but they're not quite into guns as much as I am and would never think of bringing a gun on a fishing trip. I wasn't showing it off or shooting at the moon with it at midnight so I don't see what the big deal is.
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't do anything wrong.
