Hunting question
- Thread starter Mayday_
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That's exactly what I plan on doing. Im not going to let him ruin my hunting experience. I'm looking for places on my own and I know I'm going to learn a hell of a lot more from hunting by myself and spending time in the bush with my bow.
Thank you
I, after working hard for years, was finally able to buy my own property just last year. I make my own rules now and anyone, including friends and family, who dont like them are free to choose not to come. Its unfortunate your brother has his views...but again you have no skin in the game.
1963beretta
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- Vaughan, Ontario
Stuff like this happens all the time....even within families. I have a sister who has a cottage that happens to be in prime grouse country. She only ever extended an invite to my father and I when stuff needed to be done. My father pretty much built most of the structures on the property. Once most of the stuff was complete, the invites stopped coming until something else needed to be done. She always refused to allow us to hunt the grouse even though much of the hunting would be done in crown land. I havent been up to her cottage for almost 20 years. I really only went up in the past to help my father do what ever he was working on. Now that my father has passed away, I’m the default person to call when things need to be done. Since I never get an invite to go up to enjoy some time away, I never accept an invite to go up to do any work either.
Oddly enough, I just got a call from my sister this past weekend to see if I was interested in buying the adjacent property that currently belongs to her elderly in-laws who are considering selling it. Ummm.....no thanks. I learned a few decades ago that I get along with this particular sister much better when we remain a little more distant than I am with my other sisters. Just because we’re family, doesnt mean we have to agree on everything
Life moves on in other capacities. In my situation, to the detriment of my sister. So be it
Oddly enough, I just got a call from my sister this past weekend to see if I was interested in buying the adjacent property that currently belongs to her elderly in-laws who are considering selling it. Ummm.....no thanks. I learned a few decades ago that I get along with this particular sister much better when we remain a little more distant than I am with my other sisters. Just because we’re family, doesnt mean we have to agree on everything
Life moves on in other capacities. In my situation, to the detriment of my sister. So be it
- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
It’s funny how that goes sometimes, especially with the adjacent property coming up for sale. I bet she was more worried that some stranger might buy the place and interrupt her time up there than she would want to see her brother have an opportunity to buy the place.
1963beretta
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- Vaughan, Ontario
Thats exactly what it is. The properties started off as one big lot with a single 3 bedroom cabin on it. This was the in-laws place. Then the property was severed into two in which my sister and her husband built the second 3 bedroom cabin....or should I say my father built the second cabin. From there each property received their own 2 car garage as well as storage cabins. There is also a communal two room outhouse with shower that is used during the winter months. Each property also has a boat house....again all built by the hands of my father. Because the actual cabins are in very close proximity, I’m sure my sisters biggest concern is having strangers up there and would much prefer I purchase the property so that things continue as normal for her. As much as I love the property, I have zero interest in pursuing the opportunity. I cant pick my family, but I can pick every other thing in my life
1963beretta
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- Vaughan, Ontario
Been there, done that! Your relationship with your brother may be better off if you go your separate ways on the hunting front
If that's the case, #### the lot of em and do your thing! It's crown land. They don't own it, and you owe them nothing.
And every other front. I see my brother at family dinners and such, that's about the most I can stand him. He thinks he's better than me because he has more money(he works 60-80 hour weeks more often than not), but the jokes on him because I'd much rather have free time than money. You can't buy more time in the woods or with your kids, you can always make another buck...
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- Location
- Western Manitoba
I agree about the choices that are made. However, I worked in the order of 900 hours/year overtime for many years - others chose not to. But I get to say what goes or what doesn't go with the stuff I bought - they typically remain jealous and feel "hard done by"...
No offence intended to you Mr Mayday, but my experience has been when people intentionally misrepresent the situation in an effort to get what they hoped to be unbiased opinions of others, my gut tells me that there’s something else going on that’s impacting the decision making of the actual people involved in the situation.
Perhaps you should have a heart to heart with your brother?
Maybe he will rent the cottage to you after the rifle hunt?
Maybe you could discuss bow hunting with the other hunters and see what they have to say with regards to both before and after the rifle hunt?
Read your own words in post 20. That is good advice.
Perhaps you should have a heart to heart with your brother?
Maybe he will rent the cottage to you after the rifle hunt?
Maybe you could discuss bow hunting with the other hunters and see what they have to say with regards to both before and after the rifle hunt?
Read your own words in post 20. That is good advice.
Runningfool
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- SW Ontario
Deer drives are not my thing either but for a guy who has exactly one season of deer hunting under his belt, you sure seem to be Judgy McJudge. Those guys have been hunting there for 30 years but after 1 year you know “it’s not the best technique”....Hmmmmm...I wish you luck with your next hunt camp invitation.
With the millions of acres of crown land available to you, why is it so important to you that you hunt this piece? Seems pretty obvious that a) you’ve got a place to stay and b) now you know the lay of the land from those experienced fellas showing you around last year. Whether your brother’s fear that the other guys may be put off is real or imaginary doesn’t really matter - it’s his place that you would be staying at, he’s the one who got you invited in the first place, I think you should respect his decision about not asking the other guys (as well as if your dog is welcome or not) even if you don’t agree with it.
You could always pitch a tent on crown land and you and your dog could stay in that but even then, out of courtesy and respect for the older gentlemen that showed you the ropes last year, I would talk to them about it first. That’s not legally required of course but I still think it’s the right thing to do.
Runningfool
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- SW Ontario
There is no best technique. Hunt a few years, you will understand.
All I said is that it works but it's not the best (also said by other people in this thread) That's my opinion. I would like to try bow hunting, that's more my thing, but maybe not for those other guys. If you want to look at that statement and find as much negative as you can in it and say I have no experience and are judgy then so be it.
I do not need to hunt that land and as I stated earlier I chose not to hunt there with them. There is no discussion, or reasoning, or talking about it, my brother said no. He didn't ask them their opinion, it's just his.
blasted_saber
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- Location
- A blue part of Ontario
Any group that wants to discourage a (relatively) new hunter from harvesting an animal is not a group I want to be associated with. If they cant handle someone bow hunting in the archrey season, they should go buy their own private property and make their own rules for it.
