How often do you get harassed while hunting?

Have Never been harassed that I remember.

One guy accused me of harassing him one time. I explained to him I was at work doing my job. After he calmed down a bit he was apologetic and I told him where there was a good herd of whitetails. Saw him in the spot where I told him to go the next day with a buck in the back of the truck and he gave me the thumbs up as I drove by.
 
rattus, she didnt have purple hair now did she?
Have had my share of run ins and tried to reason with them once or twice.
But, gave that up for foul mouthed comments directed at me and right back at them.
If they can not speak to me in a civil voice, they get trucker mouth right back.
Ignoring them doesnt work either.
Even had a member of the RCMP greet me on the Dyke in the past when coming in from Duck hunting too.
But, that is a story for another time.
Rob
 
The only thing I have ever experienced, that was mildly "harassing" was an anti-hunting lady lawyer, who drove a Red FJ Cruiser would stop beside vehicles of hunters and lean on the horn... On one hunt she did it every morning and every evening for a week... Where is the "purple-haired tire slashing girl" when "I" need her???
 
I harass everybody hunting the single lane private road to my place, where the owners of the adjacent land are either native or my neighbours (who have only given permission to hunt to their neighbours).
 
FLHTCUI said:
rattus, she didnt have purple hair now did she?
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Naww, that was when I was thirteen or so on the dykes in Port Coquitlam, before they got shut down. It was a couple on the other side of the slough, and the woman just kept yelling "murderer" over and over. She was seriously unhinged. And that's probably why they closed the area to hunting.
 
LowPost42 said:
I harass everybody hunting the single lane private road to my place, where the owners of the adjacent land are either native or my neighbours (who have only given permission to hunt to their neighbours).
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That's not harassment... That is confronting trespassers... And while trespassing they are NOT "hunters" they are poachers... Hunters are respectful and follow all laws in pursuit of their hunting interests...
 
Depends a lot where you hunt. We yote hunt in a farming area and never get a season in without someone who sees a gun or owns a lot the size of a postage stamp give us a problem. For us it's part of doing business.
 
rattus said:
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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Cell phone camera then report it to the police. They're driving off the road officers here is the law that says they can't do that they're breaking this law as well I would like to press charges. (they won't want to do it) They will just look up to see if it's a fine and if it comes down to money they will go after them anything else they wont care. Just get the trucks plate and the face of the driver that will allow them to track them down. Threats and harassment are a crime.

I've had people threaten me for just walking down a public trail saying it's private property (I had all the land maps saying no it's a park which is also open to hunting)

I know pit lake is open to hunting but widgeon creek is closed to hunting that 1 area only.
 
rattus said:
Naww, that was when I was thirteen or so on the dykes in Port Coquitlam, before they got shut down. It was a couple on the other side of the slough, and the woman just kept yelling "murderer" over and over. She was seriously unhinged. And that's probably why they closed the area to hunting.
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You can hunt on the other side shooting towards the city that's the stupidity of it all while the other side you shoot towards farm land. The island between the 2 is Federal and is open still.


I just don't like the roadway hunters more then anything. I've dodged bullets because of them and so have other people.
 
Jonny_Cannon said:
Who in their right mind harasses people with guns out in the wilderness?

Cannon
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Many canadian-born people have never witnessed violence in real life. From the cradle, the most violence they probably have ever had visited upon themselves is probably a spanking when they were little, and even that is rare these days. Therefore, they have the audacity to do things such as show the middle finger, tell someone they don't know to eff-off to their face and base all their decisions on odd concepts such as "he was in the wrong anyway" and do silly things like walk across crosswalks with their heads down on their phones.

I for one, would never even raise my voice to a stranger. Respect for my fellow man has come from years of seeing people getting the snot beaten out of them by baby-faced little boys with machetes hidden in their trouser legs. I'd never, for instance, seen anyone give the middle finger to someone and did not get chased down and have said finger broken in multiple places.

But hey, this is Canada ;-)

OP...I see you live in Maple Ridge. Pop over to city hall and have a chat with the COs there. Give them a good description of the cowards who bullied your 80-year old dad and 9 year old kid. Maple Ridge isn't a big place. Chances are, you'll see those yahoos again, and make sure to call them out and get them into trouble. Its BIG trouble they're in, especially since they interfered with your hunt. If you don't do it, they're gonna do it to someone else, and who knows, they might get bolder. Bad behaviour needs to be nipped in the bud.
 
OEM said:
OP...I see you live in Maple Ridge. Pop over to city hall and have a chat with the COs there. Give them a good description of the cowards who bullied your 80-year old dad and 9 year old kid. Maple Ridge isn't a big place.
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Thanks. If it was Maple Ridge I'd do it but we hunt in Kamloops. Next time I'll have my cell phone camera ready.
 
IMO I don't believe that the anti hunting harassing folks care if they are fined or charged.

They are martyrs , they will look at it as a victory if they spoiled your hunt and allowed the quarry to escape that particular day.
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
IMO I don't believe that the anti hunting harassing folks care if they are fined or charged.

They are martyrs , they will look at it as a victory if they spoiled your hunt and allowed the quarry to escape that particular day.
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I suspect most do and are just unaware that's it's illegal. Nice to help them find out :)
 
I have had it happen too.A place that I deer hunt had a 2 acre lot severed off years ago and the people who own it think they own the 100 acre farm behind it.They feed the deer from the yard and I guess think of them as pets.Every year if I sit somewhere that I am visible from the house they are out there honking the horn and yelling and screaming (never directly at me, just yelling).It is illegal to interfere in a hunt but I normally just try to sit somewhere out of sight.
 
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