blasted_saber
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- A blue part of Ontario
Hes an exception, obviously I have no issue with that.
Hunting Moose on Ontario highways...?
- Thread starter NorthernPF
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Hes an exception, obviously I have no issue with that.
NorthernPF
Regular
- Location
- Ramore, Ontario
So here's a hypothetical for you. You have a bull tag. You leave your house to go to hunt camp. As you're driving down the highway to go to hunt camp (All in the same WMU) you see the biggest trophy bull of your life in a marsh 75 yards off the highway. Would you pass up on it because you don't want to be hunting from your truck?? You're not really hunting from your truck but it's just in passing going to camp.
blasted_saber
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- A blue part of Ontario
I hunt for the experience of the hunt above all else. Probably would stop, take a picture, get to camp and joke with the guys about how I just saw an enormous bull on the side of the highway.
Experience>meat>antlers
As an aside, almost my whole WMU is private. So in this scenario I'd be tresspassing if I got off the highway to shoot.
NorthernPF
Regular
- Location
- Ramore, Ontario
See up here most of it is all crown land. And to be 100% honest with you, moose numbers up here aren't always great. I would shoot it because it would be meat in the freezer, even if it wasn't a trophy bull. I love the experiences of hunting but above all I hunt to put meat in the freezer for my family.
I don't think anyone would have a problem with coming across a bull in a WMU for which you have a tag... stopping your vehicle, taking out your rifle, walking off the road allowance, loading your gun and shooting a legal animal for which you have the appropriate tag... not much of a "hunting" experience, but it is a freezer full of meat, if that is what you are after.
On the other hand... many major highways are the WMU boundary... and more than one "hunter" (poacher), has shot a moose on the wrong side and dragged it across to the legal side... clearly this individual has his/her priorities all "screwed-up." There were several cases of this in Ontario last year alone... and one case of two moose being shot at night on highway 101, and left behind... the perpetrator(s), may have been scared off by oncoming traffic... or perhaps they shot just to kill... disgusting! I never did hear if there was a conclusion to that case.
Maybe the guy you took your course from taught you this because it applies to your area, but it does not apply to the province as a whole. You need to read the regulations. Seriously.
Our camp is at end of a logging road that is used by the general public. On any given day during the small or big game season you will find vehicles running up and down this road hunting. I have seen hunters sitting on chairs on the road watching a swamp area back when u got tags. This roadway is not part of the 8 meter rule and I have followed many hunters stop on middle of road and shoot a grouse standing on side of road. This road is also patrolled by OPP and CO's. You can shoot from it but not across it. It is a bush road and not maintained by anyone. No one I know would pass a moose standing off this road when they have a moose tag because this may be their only tag they will ever get in a life time. Each to their own as long as it is legal. Nothing more P's me off is, "do as I say not as I do", when no one is around to see what I do?
The OP asked if its legal and the answer is YES (with some caveats that mean he has to buckle down and read the regs for his area).
Legally shooting from a road feeds the family. Spending time in the bush getting a hunting experience feeds the soul. No reason to confuse the two and no reason to spit on people who choose one over the other.
Legally shooting from a road feeds the family. Spending time in the bush getting a hunting experience feeds the soul. No reason to confuse the two and no reason to spit on people who choose one over the other.
