Duck Hunters Buzzed by Police Helicopter.

maybe the landowner called because the guy didnt have permission to be there? I have friends with land in that area and they always get city hunters walking on to there land. We were out shooting clays once and had a guy walk right over the hill we were shooting near, almost got himself shot!! This was in the middle of 350 acres.
where abouts is this pond? I am also from the Wack.
 
ryanloco said:
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
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That happened to us last season, about 20km west of Whitney, it was just clearing the tree-tops...
 
Ryanloco & Blargon, Had the same thing happen to me a few years ago east of Bancroft.Apparently the c130s are doing some low level manouvers out of Trenton.One of the guys in our camp is retired from the Air Force and he told me at that time exactly what it was that they were doing but damned if I can remember what he told me. Cheers Bac4
 
Well, as a lifetime resident of Richmond Hill, York Region, Ontario I am very familiar with said helicopter and police force. And that isn't because I have EVER had the cops called on me, nor have I ever been pursued for anything. Everyone in the area is familiar with it. When the helicopter program started in York Region (I believe it was around 8 years ago, going from memory here) it was set up to work just like a car in that it responded to any call that was out on the radio. Yes, ANY call. This has been published many times in the local papers and the rationale is that if you have a pilot and a cop there, better to have them up in the air shining a massive spot light on whatever they see fit than have them sitting on their hands waiting for an "important" call. I admit that this is a good deterrent against crime in general. I moved just west of the area a couple of years ago, but friends of mine tell me that yes, that is still the policy. I know many people who have been awakened in the middle of the night because of the helicopter flying really low, shining the light around. I don't mean this as a negative in and of itself, but it generally has a poor image in the local public's eye because they see it more as a form of harassment than a benefit in a low crime area. York Region gets a helicopter, reaps some benefit while metro Toronto (at least at that time) did not have one, but actually really needs one.

I have personally been the center of attention of this helicopter from simply being in a friend's back yard at a small barbecue while they were seemingly looking for someone. I understand that the cops are in most cases using this tool to the best of their abilities, but it can be quite intrusive and a buzz kill when you are doing nothing wrong, to say the least. Another time I was out on lake simcoe fishing in the middle of a bay just after dark. We were at anchor. The helicopter came in to the bay, shined it's light from the shore, to our boat, then back and forth for several minutes. It looked to us like they were trying to find someone on land, saw us and were waiting for us to do what, I have no idea. I used to live on a rural property on the north end of Richmond Hill and I have seen the helicopter time and time again conducting intensive searches of farmers fields, for what I never could tell.
 
That same chopper used to hover over our field parties in Pickering years ago after they got it. We were on private property but i bet our 25 foot wide fires lit up thier F.L.I.R. from miles away.

They'd just hover for a while to try to annoy (not too low as we partied beside power lines) and shine thier big bright light on us all.

They must have been a little upset at all us giving them the finger and mooning them. Maybe they liked it?:)
 
Well we didn't have a helicopter over us I'm in Alberta and have hunted the same lake for the last 25 years on private land that I have permission to be on . across the lake there is a camp ground . well out of the range of our shotguns by far nor would the pellets go even 1/2 way across the lake well one of my friends dads runs the camp ground and he was also hunting with us needless to say some lady was distressed by seeing her beautiful geese falling from the sky and phoned the RCMP well after the morning shoot we proceeded to pic up geese decoys etc. and head back to the camp ground to my friends trailer for a deer sausage lunch . well when we drove into the camp ground guns encased of course as I'm no fool and take care to know the letter of the law as it was only a municipal campground well we were greeted by this lady and here angry husband who swore at me accused me of shooting in a park you see they thought that the whole lake was the park and it is just one small area . I informed them that what we were doing was legal on private land that I had permission to be on .They would here no reason and said that the police had been called I said thats fine send them down to the trailer as we will be having lunch . The RCMP officer pulled up we came out of the trailer we told him where we were and and what we were doing he asked only to see our PAL's and left us to get back to our lunch . She called the police next time as well when some one calls the have to check it out he said Hi to us and the next time he said that they will frown on it if she called again . she did call again the Fish and Game officer came out watched us with Bino's the RCMP had had enough he did not come over and interrupt our hunt . I talked to him later he talked to the lady and told her that we were doing nothing wrong and that if she called again that it would be bordering on harassment and she may be in trouble. Had to tell the story one for us for a change.
 
DEZ said:
Well we didn't have a helicopter over us I'm in Alberta and have hunted the same lake for the last 25 years on private land that I have permission to be on . across the lake there is a camp ground . well out of the range of our shotguns by far nor would the pellets go even 1/2 way across the lake well one of my friends dads runs the camp ground and he was also hunting with us needless to say some lady was distressed by seeing her beautiful geese falling from the sky and phoned the RCMP well after the morning shoot we proceeded to pic up geese decoys etc. and head back to the camp ground to my friends trailer for a deer sausage lunch . well when we drove into the camp ground guns encased of course as I'm no fool and take care to know the letter of the law as it was only a municipal campground well we were greeted by this lady and here angry husband who swore at me accused me of shooting in a park you see they thought that the whole lake was the park and it is just one small area . I informed them that what we were doing was legal on private land that I had permission to be on .They would here no reason and said that the police had been called I said thats fine send them down to the trailer as we will be having lunch . The RCMP officer pulled up we came out of the trailer we told him where we were and and what we were doing he asked only to see our PAL's and left us to get back to our lunch . She called the police next time as well when some one calls the have to check it out he said Hi to us and the next time he said that they will frown on it if she called again . she did call again the Fish and Game officer came out watched us with Bino's the RCMP had had enough he did not come over and interrupt our hunt . I talked to him later he talked to the lady and told her that we were doing nothing wrong and that if she called again that it would be bordering on harassment and she may be in trouble. Had to tell the story one for us for a change.
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That's the way it should turn out every time. Sadly it's not that way a lot of the time these tree huggers call about lunatics firing guns wildly at anything that moves with no disregard for safety!:rolleyes:
 
alot of people think guns are what kill humans and neglect the fact with no hunters the populations would grow larger than there food supply

people will be people i guess
 
Interesting comments.

As for the communications part. The media monitor police radio communications night and day 24/7 *AND* report on it. If the authorities want to track me down over posting such posts. Fine. Oh boy. Am I suppose to put my tail between my legs and piss on the floor? Wasting police, Crown, and court resources over some internet posts?? How much would that cost the tax payer? HHmmm? I wonder. What ever! Are they still charging people for spitting on sidewalks? No wonder the court system in Canada is run like it's a banana republic.

Here's my IP address 74.12.148.52 come and get me.

I've learned in life there's two types of people in the world, introverts and extraverts. Introverts will respect ones opinion and extraverts will dictate and force there opinions on others.....Extraverts are the ones who have problems in society...and usually don't adhere to there own advice they so like to dictate to others. Part and parcel of forums I guess.

www.Radioreference.com as numerous threads on 'interesting things I heard on the scanner.' Anyway wrong forum for that topic.

I just thought I would share this story with some fellow hunters and see if anyone else has had the same experiences. It's appears I was not the only one. Thank you.

As for bashing the police. I don't live in a communist country...yet. Everyones entitled to freedom of expression and belief under the Canadian Charter. I've learned cops are narcissistic. It's a *job/employment* and they (police) commit crimes just like some of the people they arrest. Some people seem to have high regard for the police like there some sort of God. There not. There investigators of crime after the fact.

Thanks for the comments. Bow season opens tomorrow again. Heading back out to the bush. I shot a spike buck on Nov 21 (crossbow) in the shoulder but it got away. I couldn't believe it. We searched for three hours and went back the following day. No luck. Damn, it's cold out now.
 
bukee said:
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.
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This happened to me once. But on the second pass they napalmed us and cooked all the ducks.
 
on the same note, while out Deer hunting 2 weeks ago, a helicopter was buzzing the hills just south of us, and they were killing deer with s/a and f/a rifles. They were within a km of us.

Hunting season was not over yet, there is a cull on, but hfs was that not cool.
 
Duck Hunting on the salt marsh Outside of Delta BC last year, me and a buddy were in our punts with a good spread of goose decoys around us and our tow boat anchored about 1/4 km out in the deep water...Hovercraft comes roaring in and pretty much tried to rescue us. They sat about 50 yards off from us trying to talk over the loudspeaker (which was pointless with all the noise the hovercraft makes) and had a guy harnessed up in full scuba on the deck...so we got out of our punts and onto firm land and did our best to call off their rescue. After 5 minutes they just packed up and left....not bashing them at all for the attempted rescue...maybe they had been out looking for someone in distress...quite thankful they are out there actually, never know when any one of us might need their services...Just wanted to tell the story...
 
Ken07AOVette said:
just FYI it is very illegal to videotape surveil or record RCMP et al while in the process of peace keeping.

Don't let anyone get ahold of that tape.
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I also call BS. Please provide a reference to that law.

It is illegal to record a private conversation to which you are not a party. (ie, bugging devices). But if you can see/hear them in plain sight, then it is fair game.
 
Amherst Island, near Kingston Ont, the police make the rounds in a helicopter around the beginning of hunting season. They are both checking hunters and also looking for grow ops.

Apparently this year they sent the tactical team in the helicopter ...
 
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