How often do you get harassed while hunting?

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I'm wondering how common it is to be harassed while out hunting. I was out with my 80 something year old dad and my 9 year old son, duck hunting on the Thanksgiving long weekend. We mainly jump ponds because we are dogless. Basically, we set up at one end of a pond and then one of us (larger groups work better) sneaks around to the other side and scares them up. We only shoot at ones that will drop on land. We were setting up on a small pond in an area we have hunted for years. While I was waiting for my dad to jump the pond two guys in a white pickup drove up and told me the area was a wildlife preserve. I politely told him, no, it was open to hunting. It is in an area that has restrictions on off-road vehicles but that's not a wildlife preserve. Anyway, he left, we jumped the pond and moved on to the next one a few hundred metres away. I had a long walk on this one and my dad and my son set up on the the reverse slope of a rock outcropping by the road. White truck guys came back, verbally harassed my dad and started honking the horn. They then drove off the road, in violation of the off road restrictions, and got up on the berm behind my dad and started honking again. Anyway, they got bored I guess because it was a really long walk for me to get to the other end of the pond. We jumped it, birds flew, we got nothing but not because of the yahoos. Still, I was a little perturbed.

So how often does this happen? The only other time for me was when I was a kid and some nutter called us "murderers" while hunting on a dyke in the lower mainland. Also, does BC have a law against interfering in a lawful hunt?
 
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In Alberta they'd be breaking the law...not sure about BC. Surprisingly I've never been harassed and we hunt some of the most yuppie filled mountains in Alberta. It must be really frustrating when you are. I'd call the fish cops if I were you.
 
I write a letter stating/tell the verbally, that I have video taped the individual and their action and if they do it again I will call the MNR/police and have them charged.

Usually works.
 
I returned from goose hunting on Saturday morning and while unloading geese from my truck a group of high school kids was walking by. One of the school girls made a comment about how I was a cruel bastard. Next morning when I went to leave for my hunting trial I noticed my tire was flat. Upon inspection this is what I found.
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Sick. I've never been bothered other than having to throw the odd tresspasser off family land. I lucked out in Winnipeg too, all my close neighbours have been hunters or country folk. Got some new animal rescue type people across the back lane now though, it could be interesting when I string my deer up in the garage this year.
 
It happens to me at some point every single season. I hunt all the time and have noticed that it is mainly deer hunting that gets people emotional.

Believe it or not, half the time it is other hunters who can be a pain in the a** thinking that they own all deer. The other half it is usually people that are neighbours to the properties hunted, they think they own all property within sight.

Rarely do I have any issues hunting small game with my dogs.

Deer hunting can bring out the worst and because of this I enjoy it less and therefore do less of it now.
 
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I returned from goose hunting on Saturday morning and while unloading geese from my truck a group of high school kids was walking by. One of the school girls made a comment about how I was a cruel bastard. Next morning when I went to leave for my hunting trial I noticed my tire was flat. Upon inspection this is what I found.
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That biatch needs some tuning up. She used an illegal weapon against your property. Indictable.
 
I guess I should just Google it myself :)

It is illegal to interfere with a legal hunt in BC:

Obstructing licensed persons

80 A person commits an offence if the person interferes with or obstructs a person licensed or permitted to capture wildlife or to hunt, fish, guide or trap while that person is lawfully so engaged.

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(3) Subject to subsection (4), a person who commits an offence referred to in subsection (1) (b) is liable,

(a) on a first conviction, to a fine of not more than $100 000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, and

(b) on each subsequent conviction for the same offence or another offence referred to in subsection (1) (b), to a fine of not more than $200 000 and not less than $2 000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both.
 
Yep. Illegal in BC. It hasn't happened to me, but if it did there would be no second chances. I'd inform them that they are breaking the law. If they did not cease their behavior and leave the area immediately, I'd call the authorities.

Every time one of these idiots gets away with something like this, it encourages more of the same behavior.

React swiftly and surely.
 
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