Duck Hunters Buzzed by Police Helicopter.

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Just thought I would share this little bit of gossip.

A number of months ago during the morning I heard a chopper flying over head in our town. I took a look out the window and it was the police flying circles around our town. Curious, I grabbed my communications scanner and tuned in. I caught the tail end of the call. The ground unit reported, "there probably in the bush wearing camo" Apparently, someone in town called the police because they heard gun fire. We live out in the country.

We have a small pond just outside of town which guys hunt in the fall. It's on private property. So I assume the landowner was out duck hunting. The helicopter continued to buzz the hunters while the ground unit interrogated the duck hunters, and I video taped the police interaction with the hunters from a distance.

I feel sorry for you guys (gun owners). I really do. I will always stick up for the gun owner.

A million dollar bird and a police cruiser for some duck hunters???? Has Canada become a police state already? Then the cops will want a budget increase the following year.OH BOY! Excellent use of tax dollars, boy's!
 
scott_r said:
I would be the farm on ....... ONTARIO
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now maybe i'm blind, but I don't see ontario anywhere in his post? if thats what your special grammar is trying to get across?

big place, lots of police helicopter possiblity in ontario. not a small place, where everyone knows everyone like Sask. :rolleyes:
 
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I was duckhunting a swamp/flooded timber last year with a buddy, when out of nowhere a fighter jet roars pretty low over head. It was amazingly loud, fast and agile as it preformed many manouvers back and forh over us. We were just praying that it didn't use that swamp for target practice, which it didn't. This was an awesome, somewhat scary sight, and a fast way to learn that a military base was close by.
 
Scott_N said:
I don't know about the other provinces, but in Alberta it's illegal to interfere with a lawful hunt.
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Ayup!

SK too. Heard of a CO getting a formal reprimand outta continuously checking the same guy, by driving up to where his stand location was, south of Moose Jaw.

Fair enough.

There's doing ones job, then there's being a #### about it.

It's up to the guy that was legally hunting, to make the official fuss about it, though.
If he's not willing to put the effort into it, he may just as well get used to being treated that way.

Not good.

Cheers
Trev
 
Yep. Certain area's. Where these guys were was not a restricted area. Besides when the cops were done with them, the hunters left with there guns. However, I didn't hear anymore gunfire after that. NO, I didn't rat them out.

When I moved out of Toronto about ten years ago and settled in the country I discovered a number of Regional forests to walk.

About nine years ago I was out for a walk on an old rail line which runs north/ south from the town of Sutton, ON. From the rial line I could see the main road and kinda noticed a white pickup...more then once drive up and down the main road. I didn't pay much attention to it. When I got back to my car and drove off and saw flashing red lights in the rear view mirror. CO's. I pulled over. One got out the passenger side and was, 'at the ready' as his partner approached me. He asked, "Doing a bit of hunting today"? It was Sunday. I said no. "Do you have any guns in the car"? No, I don't own guns, I replied. "Would you like to have a look"? Sure enough the CO rifled through the trunk of my car and asked for my hunting license. I bow hunt only. After running a 10 minute 'check' on me I was able to leave. I haven't hunted for over ten years and just recently got back into it. Got a big bear with the crossbow last Sept.

As a rule of thumb now I almost always carry a video camera (Canon Elf) while bow hunting or while in my car. I tend to think it's open season on hunters and gun owners OR am I out to lunch?
 
I'd be careful about posting the contents of communications which you were not a party of on a public forum, as it is a federal offense to reveal the contents, or profit from, intercepted telecommunications. ;)
 
Not in Alberta you think? Actually the RCMP set a helicopter down beside my wife and I while we were hunting geese in a field north of Dapp (although it was about 20 years ago) . Had our willow blind flapping pretty good. Checked our licences, shotguns for plugs, counted our birds and they were on their way. I think my Lab would have liked a ride in the Jet Ranger. I would have been ticked off only if a flight of geese had been approaching, otherwise nice to see someone paying attention. Probably their token check for the year.
 
chris50362 said:
Just thought I would share this little bit of gossip.

A number of months ago during the morning I heard a chopper flying over head in our town. I took a look out the window and it was the police flying circles around our town. Curious, I grabbed my communications scanner and tuned in. I caught the tail end of the call. The ground unit reported, "there probably in the bush wearing camo" Apparently, someone in town called the police because they heard gun fire. We live out in the country.

We have a small pond just outside of town which guys hunt in the fall. It's on private property. So I assume the landowner was out duck hunting. The helicopter continued to buzz the hunters while the ground unit interrogated the duck hunters, and I video taped the police interaction with the hunters from a distance.

I feel sorry for you guys (gun owners). I really do. I will always stick up for the gun owner.

A million dollar bird and a police cruiser for some duck hunters???? Has Canada become a police state already? Then the cops will want a budget increase the following year.OH BOY! Excellent use of tax dollars, boy's!
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No offense but, you know, Canada is much more than Ontario. :p
So your question should be: " Has ONTARIO become a police province already? " One advice, if you are thinking to start a police bashing thread, think twice. The thugs will jump all over you.
 
dudu said:
No offense but, you know, Canada is much more than Ontario. :p
So your question should be: " Has ONTARIO become a police province already? " One advice, if you are thinking to start a police bashing thread, think twice. The thugs will jump all over you.
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And the banninators...:D
 
A lot of assumptions from only being a bystander. Is this around the time Brandon Crisp went missing? Grow Op eradication? You say they were looking for guys in camo. After they realized the fellows were duck hunting maybe they just asked them if they saw something and they did so the transaction was longer than you think it should have been. Why worry about it when you really don't know what happened.
 
I was sitting in a treestand patiently about 4 weeks ago, just north of Bancroft, when out of nowhere a C130 Herc buzzed over the tree tops.. I've never seen one that close in flight before !! :D
 
RobSmith said:
I'd be careful about posting the contents of communications which you were not a party of on a public forum, as it is a federal offense to reveal the contents, or profit from, intercepted telecommunications. ;)
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Correct. You may intercept, but keep details to yourself. Criminal Code offence.
 
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