In ontario a bear hunter must wear orange while hunting unless in a "treestand". I'm trying to find out what counts as a treestand. Is setting up on a pile of large boulders sitting on a small stump a treestand or does it has to have a seat fastened to a tree. Also how high must it be? I've treid calling the ministry and emailing them and I'm getting different answers from the few replies I get
define a treestand
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NolanOsborn
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Was curious about that myself, whether or not a ground blind counts.
I was told while bear hunting if in a ground blind you must still wear the orange but our ministry is so ####ed up they won't put anything in writing. I recently purchased a ontario wolf tag and they tried to charge me $263 because I wasn't a resident of the north
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A treestand, is a treestand (elevated position in a tree, would make sense to me). Not a pile of rocks, or a tree stump. Even if you are hunting from a "treestand" you still need to have Blaze orange with you, to wear while on the ground to and from your treestand.
Wonder if an elevated Box Blind would count? It’s elevated off the ground but not attached to a tree. Could this be like the update they did to the Ontario regulations that for small game? It used to be 22 calibre rim-fire rifle chambered in 22 short, 22 long, or 22 LR. They have changed the regulation to rifle of muzzle energy less than 400 foot pounds. I guess this was to include the 22 magnum and 17 calibre rim-fires. But would it now include center fire with muzzle energy less than 400 foot pounds?
