hunting on reserve

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A friend of mine wants to take me out hunting, He is native and wants to take me hunting on the reserve. Am I aloud to hunt on a reserve? He will be with me the whole time but we are concerned if I can legally shoot anything on the reserve.
 
I think you will be ok as long as you have been invited to be on the reserve but as far as taking any game, your regular hunting licence,tags and bag limits ,species,and openings apply just as they would anywhere else in the province.
Consider yourself fortionate-my adopted Native son who is legally entitled to hunt under native rules isn't the slightest bit interested-he's a golfer....
 
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I think you may hunt on reserve according to the laws of the province. You may get away with hunting under native laws BUT it is very much frowned upon by many hunters.
Like taking an untagged moose out of season where moose are not so pentiful, always a big issue in NB and NS.
 
I think the BC regs say you need to have the permission of the Band office.
Reserves are considered posted/fenced private property and you are trespassing if hunting with out permission of the band. I would stop in the band office with your buddy and get the OK first. What is cool with your friend might not be OK with the Chief.

anyway assuming you get permission and yoyu do not have a status card, you can only take game in accordance with the game regulations. Even if your friend has a card and is with you legally you can not shoot an out of season animal/ an animal that you do not have tags for.
 
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Ok so i can hunt on native land with permison but I have to follow the regular laws? is that pretty much the just of it? cause that was going to be a follow up question on whether I have to follow the regular hunting laws while hunting on native land.
 
I don't know about BC but in Sask, you can hunt with a native hunter, but He must also have a licence if he is hunting as well, otherwise it is not considered sustainence hunting but sport hunting.
 
As with any Private property you need permission from the land owner.

I seriously doubt that they have left anything worth shooting in their area anyway. :D
 
In BC you do not need permssion just because it is private land!

You need permssion if it is properly Posted at access points, Fenced or Under Cultivation.

The Indian Reserves are a special case where you need permision even if the other triggers for permssion are absent.
 
#1 page 5 of the bc hunting regs states...

IT IS UNLAWFUL

1. to enter; hunt over or trap in cultivated land, posted land or private property without the owner's permission.


That means all lands posted or not... except of course crown land.
 
First nations land..................interesting how it works (who the hell knows for sure). Do provincial regs apply and if so, why???? It is federal land.....and some bands are trying to start guiding businesses and say they have the right to opt out of the provincial fish and game laws and set their own.

It is all a big can of worms.
 
I'm sure for you the provincial hunting regulations apply, just the same as they do when you hunt on anyone's private land. Licences, tags, seasons, bag limits, all apply.
 
I know a few native hunters who just voluntarily follow the provincial hunting reg. But they were quite frustrated at the fact that someone like me found secret spots which they thought nobody else should know. :)
 
I don't know the what the law says in regards to provincial regs being followed on federal land. However if you are non status wouldn't it make sense for an individual to follow the laws for said province. The provincial laws are what is followed while hunting on CFB Shilo, at least as far as I know, and likely every other base in the country that has areas you can hunt. Wouldn't that be federal land?;)
 
ya but a CF base is not the same as a Native reserve.

but thats cool guys, im just going to follow the regular provincal laws. I don't know if I have to or not but I will just to be safe. Not that there is going to be any CO's there but still.
 
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