Don't you just love all the new acreages
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Most certainly. My initial interpretation was that the " something for nothing" was to an extent a put down but when placed in context it was not.
The issue of permission on private land will always create debate but the truth is that the landowner calls the shots and the hunter can only respectfully ask for permission.
And as for game laws there is a lot that can be debated also but my newest beef is that wonderful new computerized system they have implemented.
Cheers and good hunting
The issue of permission on private land will always create debate but the truth is that the landowner calls the shots and the hunter can only respectfully ask for permission.
And as for game laws there is a lot that can be debated also but my newest beef is that wonderful new computerized system they have implemented.
Cheers and good hunting
I haven't bothered to hunt private land for something like 15 years; never did hunt much on the farmland. Way too much hassle getting permission, then having to put up with a**holes that disregard property rights and don't bother getting permission.
So I go out to the crown land, which fortunately is in abundance here. But even on the crown land, you gotta go deeper, farther if you want to avoid the a**holes.
So I go out to the crown land, which fortunately is in abundance here. But even on the crown land, you gotta go deeper, farther if you want to avoid the a**holes.
I did so as well but life has kept me close to home and I am having to hunt private land or not hunt at all. Sooner or later I will have the time and I'll go back to the crown land. Around here if you can walk a half mile from the nearest road or quad trail you are alone.
I've been on both sides of the landowner/permission debate as it works here, and have been on the paying end of pay-to-hunt arrangements in countries where that was normal. For the record, that's practically everywhere but here.
Personally, I'd rather pay my own way. That's not to say that I haven't benefitted from free hunting at times, but I still don't understand a law that says that a landowner can't charge for permission to hunt in Saskatchewan. What sense does that make? He could charge for any other legal use I can think of from berry picking to baseball, parachuteing to pasture pool (golf), road-raceing to ranching but not hunting. I can't help thinking that someone pulled a fast one when the laws were being written up because it doesn't make sense. How or why would a government assign a value of zero to something that obviously has a value. Its not like they don't know it has a value because they charge for permission slips (Licenses)themselves.
Personally, I'd rather pay my own way. That's not to say that I haven't benefitted from free hunting at times, but I still don't understand a law that says that a landowner can't charge for permission to hunt in Saskatchewan. What sense does that make? He could charge for any other legal use I can think of from berry picking to baseball, parachuteing to pasture pool (golf), road-raceing to ranching but not hunting. I can't help thinking that someone pulled a fast one when the laws were being written up because it doesn't make sense. How or why would a government assign a value of zero to something that obviously has a value. Its not like they don't know it has a value because they charge for permission slips (Licenses)themselves.
I've got great hunting within a 2 -5 minute walk from my house.
My issue with hunting in semi-populated areas usually involves watching a gunsel unpack the Uber-Magnum.
Duh... it's got houses with rifle distance in the sweep from East-south through west. Do you really need me to show you the bullet hole in my garage window?
It's creek bottom land dolt! I've received permission; no problem because I'll use BP, shotgun or brush guns like 38-55 / 44 magnum. Weapons that rapidly bleed power so the subdivided community on the hill isn't threatened quite as much.
Most shots are 100 yds tops; is a 7mm UltraMag really necessary?
If the OP has a big issue; dig deep and it'll go away, most things do.
I'm dealing on a neighbors creek bottom land to graze a few cows and for hunting. Madness to contemplate spending 250,000-300,000 to acquire 80-100 acres to hunt, correct?
But I can't very well complain about losing my hunting spot if I don't own land, IMO.
Unless you are native or own land; hunting is a privilege, not a right
My issue with hunting in semi-populated areas usually involves watching a gunsel unpack the Uber-Magnum.
Duh... it's got houses with rifle distance in the sweep from East-south through west. Do you really need me to show you the bullet hole in my garage window?
It's creek bottom land dolt! I've received permission; no problem because I'll use BP, shotgun or brush guns like 38-55 / 44 magnum. Weapons that rapidly bleed power so the subdivided community on the hill isn't threatened quite as much.
Most shots are 100 yds tops; is a 7mm UltraMag really necessary?
If the OP has a big issue; dig deep and it'll go away, most things do.
I'm dealing on a neighbors creek bottom land to graze a few cows and for hunting. Madness to contemplate spending 250,000-300,000 to acquire 80-100 acres to hunt, correct?
But I can't very well complain about losing my hunting spot if I don't own land, IMO.
Unless you are native or own land; hunting is a privilege, not a right
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That's a North American concept. Even at that most juristictions recognize that the landowner owns the dirt, and standing on his dirt is something that he can allow or disallow for any reason or no reason at all. Usually those reasons can include payment.
I actually know why Saskatchewan doesn't allow charging for hunting. It dates back to when Americans were buying up hunting leases around Carlyle country back in the day. That lead to laws like no charging for hunting access, no outfitting on posted land, Non-resident alien B.G. hunters only being able to hunt in the north where most stuff is Crown and only hunting with guides there. Knowing why, and perhaps even have benefitted from it is not the same as agreeing with it in principal.
If a law were passed that everyone in the province had to give me a dollar, or let me drive their Ferrari I would benefit from it personally. That doesn't make it right or even logical.
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