Anything you can hunt without a license?

If a bear is "comin around" your cabin, it's not exactly hunting, its either self defense or get the fukk out. If its self defense, you can't keep the rug anyhow. The dept of wildlife will confiscate it and study it. I live in the most liberal hunting area in Canada. Everything I hunt here is a matter of going to the store and buying the tags.....no draws except for buffalo and muskox.
Moose/barren land-woodland caribou/bear/wolves/wolverine/small game/etc are all "just buy a tag and off you go". BUT WE STILL HAVE TO BUY THE TAG. Anything else you mention is called poaching
 
In AB, rabbits, hares, porcupine, ground squirrels, crows, magpies, raccoons, skunk, black birds, starlings, house sparrows, coyotes, ravens, wolves, bobcat, black bear and beaver can all be hunted without a license depending on area/season/or status (private or crown) of land.
 
Like sjemac mentioned above, we are lucky in Alberta to have a number of species that can be hunted without any sort of hunting license.
 
Invasive species wasn't it? AkA bullfrogs, european cotton tails sutff like that?

You'd probably get harassed by a CO and others though...

Are you waiting on your hunting liscence? If not, get your liscence!
 
sjemac said:
In AB, rabbits, hares, porcupine, ground squirrels, crows, magpies, raccoons, skunk, black birds, starlings, house sparrows, coyotes, ravens, wolves, bobcat, black bear and beaver can all be hunted without a license depending on area/season/or status (private or crown) of land.
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Anywhere I can find more info on this? We have a bear that seems to be living around our cabin and doesn't seem to be scared of people(we were yelling at him and shining a flashlight at him and he just sat there staring at us, also he was trying to open a friend's van with him in it as he slept). Would be nice to be able to get rid of him. My PAL is in the mail and when I go out to the cabin with my first guns, I'd like to know if I could go deal with Mr. Bear and get to keep the fur/meat.
 
There is a really good group of extremely knowledgeable people on here..... BUT remember this always - YOU need to know and understand the laws and regs. So I reccomend you educate yourself. It is all published. Or if you don't care to do that at least call your co as has been suggested. If we tell you it's cool to cap the bear it doesn't make it so. The other thing is if you get caught with meat and or a pelt and no tag I would think that you will be in a very awkward position and that's being optimistic. If you want to keep anything, why not get a tag?look you have a right to defend yourself but if you are shooting a bear that is in the area that's Not defense, that's hunting.
 
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David_K said:
Anywhere I can find more info on this? We have a bear that seems to be living around our cabin and doesn't seem to be scared of people(we were yelling at him and shining a flashlight at him and he just sat there staring at us, also he was trying to open a friend's van with him in it as he slept). Would be nice to be able to get rid of him. My PAL is in the mail and when I go out to the cabin with my first guns, I'd like to know if I could go deal with Mr. Bear and get to keep the fur/meat.
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Don't take my word for it, but I believe the killing of a black bear without a license / in season only applies to livestock predation:

http://www.albertaregulations.ca/huntingregs/

Access for Control of Livestock Predation
Black Bear and Coyote*
Any person who is (a) the owner or occupant of privately owned land, or (b) authorized to keep livestock on public land, or (c) a resident authorized by a person described in (a) or a resident authorized in writing by a person described in (b) may, without a licence, hunt (but not trap) black bear or coyote on such lands, at all times of the year.
 
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