I agree. I bought a Lic, but am thinking that I should not have. My love for hunting and being in the forest every year since I became of age for hunting is overwhelming, I just gotta be out there. I won't take a buck this year unless it is ideal, which I highly doubt that I will see. I doubt that just one year of no hunting will bring back the old standards, but it would surely help to recover somewhat.
gonna be a tough hunt this year
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I agree. I bought a Lic, but am thinking that I should not have. My love for hunting and being in the forest every year since I became of age for hunting is overwhelming, I just gotta be out there. I won't take a buck this year unless it is ideal, which I highly doubt that I will see. I doubt that just one year of no hunting will bring back the old standards, but it would surely help to recover somewhat.
I don't want to get into the politics of hunting in MB but from posts on other forums and talking with other hunters there is some mistrust of the provincial NDP government and their policies with respect to rights based hunters which now includes Metis hunters as well as aboriginal hunters. Metis hunters can now hunt big game animals under the authority their own Metis Harvester permit which is issued, from my understanding, not by MB Conservation but by the MB Metis Federation. Not sure who sets tag limits if any, for the Metis and aboriginal hunters and I don't believe there are seasons restrictions.
Road hunters are a problem in the areas I hunt and there seems to be no MB Conservation presence to curb road hunters. I know from talking with COs that their resources have been cut back - for example they don't have money to do proper aerial herd counts so instead MB Con estimates herds from what data I don't know. From my own personal conservation with a retired MB wildlife biologist his opinion is that MB Con is overestimating the moose population by 5000 moose. We have had moose season closures in some GHAs to try to bring populations up.
The retired biologist also made the point that how effective can hunting policies, tag limits and season restrictions be if they only apply to one third of the hunter population in MB.
I believe the NDP government is afraid to enact any policies for wildlife management that will negatively impact their electorate base. That's probably why there was no deer season closure. Any even if they did, it would probably only apply to the non aboriginal/non Metis hunters.
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Two Dogs, you need a big game license to hunt coyotes and wolves and the biggest favour you could do for the deer is hammer the yotes and wolves
I am not going to shoot anything less than 140 myself but I will try and get out and kill some dogs after deer season
I am not going to shoot anything less than 140 myself but I will try and get out and kill some dogs after deer season
What are you on about? You don't tag wolves or coyotes, the bag limit is by estimation a possession limit
got the Lic and my eyes are wide open. See many paw prints, hear the howling, but very rarely see them. I think many will starve to death this winter. Folks around will have to keep a sharp eye on their family pets. I make sure it is at least daylight when I let mine out in the morning and in the evening I go out with them. They don't usually go far, but I don't want to take any chances. Quite often I hear the howling out back at 4-5 in the morning. I blast off a 12 ga shell into the sky and they are gone like a shot in the dark.
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You can buy an open area trapping license for $10 and shoot unlimited coyote and wolf year round in open area zones.
My wife filled her tag with a 4x4 in muzzleloader season, and there was another 4x4 with him. I have hunted quite a bit since and only seen does and fawns since. I did shoot a nice coyote the other evening, and saw a couple others that I couldn't get a shot at.
well, a little faith was restored yesterday, for the first time this season we saw some deer! A group of 6 does and 3 single runners. But, not a single buck! So, at least we know there are some deer out there. It's snowing like crazy this morning and we have winter prept work to do here at home, so we won't be back out there until tomorrow morning. Any sightings in your area? Any bucks?
