Hunting license For Varmits

[RayT]

Do you need a hunting license for shooting small varmit ( groundhogs )?? In Ontario

 

[boney]

Yes,you need a small game licence.

 

[Nighthawk39]

What about for pest control in your yard? Do you still need a license in that case? Such as a woodchuck for example.

 

[savagefan]

Shhhh! don't give our gubmint any ideas, all we need is ammo.

 

[sunray]

Woodchuck is another name for the ground hog. As for shooting one in the back yard, that depends on where said yard is located. If it's in a municipality, you can't shoot there in the first place. (Some places have made shooting a bow within the municipality illegal.)
However, if your back yard is measured in hectares or acres and you make your living from it, then you can shoot the 'chuck. Assuming there are no local by-laws about discharging a firearm. However, you cannot hunt, even on your own recreational dirt, without a small game licence.

 

[Nighthawk39]

Woodchuck is another name for the ground hog. As for shooting one in the back yard, that depends on where said yard is located. If it's in a municipality, you can't shoot there in the first place. (Some places have made shooting a bow within the municipality illegal.)
However, if your back yard is measured in hectares or acres and you make your living from it, then you can shoot the 'chuck. Assuming there are no local by-laws about discharging a firearm. However, you cannot hunt, even on your own recreational dirt, without a small game licence.

My cousin had a problem with one, he lives in a rural area and his yard is measured in acres. Problem was it was making a home at his home. LOL I don't think he ended up taking care of it with a gun though...

 

[Mike]

However, you cannot hunt, even on your own recreational dirt, without a small game licence.

Are you sure you can't shoot groundhogs without a licence? I thought that they were not protected under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. I know beaver is protected as a furbearer, but on my own property I can kill or harass them to my hearts content due to the clause about protection of property (and I don't need to have my hunting licence current to do so). I would have thought that even if groundhogs are protected, this would apply to them as well.

 

[RayT]

Do you still have to do the hunters safety course for a small game license?

 

[BIGREDD]

In Ontario... you must be in a location where discharge of firearms is legal. And you need a firearms license even to shoot one in defense of property. In most cases you need a valid hunting license and a small game license to shoot any varmint.

 

[SharpCdn]

Go ahead and just take the Hunter Safety Course! You will be really happy once you have it.

It doesn't take much of your time and then you will know the rules...AND then you are free to go hunt whatever you want by simply purchasing the appropriate tags for the appropriate areas. Then, you don't have to worry about gray areas, or looking over your shoulder and waiting to get busted by a CO, Bylaw Enforcer or Police Officer. That would ruin anyones day. Don't put at risk your privilege of owning guns.

 

[arch1965]

varmint license



My suggestion,..... move to Alberta. Other than big game, its fair game on all varmints without the money grubbing paperwork.

Gophers, fox, coyote, squirrels, badgers, pigeons, skunks etc etc etc.....

Arch

 

[oldbadger]

Not quite, furbearers in Alberta are covered under the trapping regulations. In most cases you can get a nuisance permit from your local Fish & Wildlife office, but it is not a certainty.

No matter where you live, check with the local wildlife enforcement agency before you assume anything.

 

[Cowboy]

Nusince permit---what the hell is that? Never heard of it. Now I know why I live in debt free sunny Alberta------Cowboy

 

[arch1965]

varmints



Good thing I'm not trapping them then . When it comes down to having to get a license to shoot a coyote, that is eating at one of my newborn calves ........