Conservation Officers Carry Sidearms!?!?

A buddy of mine is a CO. Several years before they carried sidearms, he was held at gunpoint by a couple poachers.

He and a sled were dropped by a chopper to check licences and tags on a couple guys dragging a cow moose in the thick bush. No tags or licences and they butt stroked him with the rifle. Taunted him and put the boots to him for several minutes. Made several threats to kill him and bury him in the bush. Luckily he had a distress beacon he was able to activate and the chopper returned quickly.

COs should have been armed a whole lot sooner than they were.
 
The Fishery Officers I know in BC could shoot the spots off a fawn at 50y. I've shot with them before, as well as some members of the RCMP. Comparatively, the RCMP are still in junior league when it comes to shooting ability.
 
577/450 said:
as soon as I can get hold of the targets I will post pics with the co's names. they have to sign thier targets
Click to expand...

Please do, remember they aren't shooting the 10X ring. They shoot centre mass thats all they train for. Nothing special, nothing fancy, so that if the SHTF they can react based on muscle memory and training.

Its about coming out alive not a nice looking target. :rolleyes:

Like I said earlier this stupid comment always come up in these LEO threads.
 
I look at it this way, police officers/conservation officers/prison guards, are no more than a small group of fellow citizens. But, with a special career, and special duties.
Most, like other younger generation Canadians, are more familiar with computers than handguns.Of course depending on age & upbringing.
Like military personnel, they have to meet a minmum qualification score once a year, with thier issue weapon, and whatever carbine/rifle, or whatever.

Those that are truly proficent shooters, more often than not, were 'gun people' long before thier chosen profession in law enforcement.
(rural background/trapping/hunting/family recreational shooting history, etc etc)
And when they retire, they will continue to be 'gun people' until they are unable to do so.

my 2 cents.....
 
They are not out there just during hunting season---I meet them on the ice in the winter a lot more than during hunting season. These guys will put on over a hundred miles a day easy on their sleds, and in some pretty isolated and rarely travelled portages and trails. Last year my buddies and I were fishing after dark on an isolated lake and a pack of wolves were pushing an island about 200 yards from us----I was sure hoping our sleds were going to start right up and if a person was broke down and walking 10 miles in the dark it would sure be nice to be "packing some heat"
 
Where have you been? COs have been carrying here for at least the last 15 years or so... what's the rational? well 50% of the people they investigate are armed too!

I only read teh first page, this might have already been mentioned.
 
Only a person with little to no experience with the variety of morons(or they are one themselves) who frequent the outdoors would object to CO's carrying.
 
Everyone a CO deals with is armed. Rifle-Knife-Axe-Fishing pole-walking stick....Back-up is either a long long ways off or non existent. Most poachers are involved in other criminal activity. Lots of their clients are drunk or stoned or both. They need to have every possible tactical advantage they can have.

I bet getting hired as a CO in Alberta now is way more difficult that joining any other LE agency ( Hiring freezes aside ).

A sidearm is a tool that provides a tactical advantage for their survival.
 
Out in the middle of no where, possibly dealing with hunters who do not like laws armed with rifles and shotguns, animal threats, ect.......I'd want one too.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom