Hunting Regulations Can Suck

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Reading these posts about Ontario and NFL and apparently eastern Canada in general seem to have really restrictive hunting regs. Wow, illegal to carry a firearm, or even a bow apparently unless holding the right license on crown land! Damn I'm glad I live in friendly Manitoba. I honestly can't imagine how bad that must suck. How do you cope?
 
Many reasons, control of schedule C animals (shootng crows), bear defense, just plain target shooting for fun. Why wouldn't you take a firearm into the woods with you?, it's legal and it's your right, at least out here in the West it is ...
 
I need a reason? Apart from the above mentioned you can hunt some things here without a license. That kind of attitude implies that I need to justify myself simply for taking a walk possibly carrying my .22. I've never had to deal with that kind of asinine restrictions before. The better question is why is there such useless restrictions? It would make the NRO's actually do their job and catch someone, poaching, for real, not just pestering some guy out for a walk on PUBLIC LAND with a .22, its OUR LAND! We have a right to be on it, and baring it being a provincial parks which restricts hunting somewhat because of recreational uses, or baring municipal restrictions we can hunt on almost all provincial crown land, in Manitoba at least.
 
There is little need for defense purposes in NL.
Crows are protected in NL.

This is what I meant by the question.

In NL there is no reason to have a firearm in the woods out of season, cause there is no season that is year round like the rabbits, skunks, porcupines, squirrels out here.

If you're not allowed to shoot anything , why bring the gun?

There are set seasons for everything pretty much, including rabbits in NL.
 
sealhunter said:
There is little need for defense purposes in NL.
Crows are protected in NL.

This is what I meant by the question.

In NL there is no reason to have a firearm in the woods out of season, cause there is no season that is year round like the rabbits, skunks, porcupines, squirrels out here.

If you're not allowed to shoot anything , why bring the gun?

There are set seasons for everything pretty much, including rabbits in NL.
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I think you just made his point...so many rules to follow for no particular reason. On another note, some people believe you need to carry a gun for bear defence. There are bears in NL, right?
 
It's
somewhat similar in Quebec. You need a small game permit to hunt crow, but it is open year round. Some species have no specific season (open year round), while some like wolf and coyote have a season.

I carry a small game permit year round with me. It allows me to carry a shotgun or .22...and sometimes a rifle of any caliber for species like gound hogs(open year round), fox, coyote, and wolf.
 
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Woodsman said:
It's
somewhat similar in Quebec. You need a small game permit to hunt crow, but it is open year round. Some species have no specific season (open year round), while some like wolf and coyote have a season.

I carry a small game permit year round with me. It allows me to carry a shotgun or .22...and sometimes a rifle of any caliber for species like gound hogs(open year round), fox, coyote, and wolf.
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News flash buddy!!!!!! .... crow hunting is not open year round in Quebec.
 
I always carry a rifle in the bush, including the quad and I don't need a reason. One time my wife and I drove part way up a back road in the hills, then unloaded the quad. Some fellows were there in a pick up and when they saw me put the rifle on the quad, one asked me what I was hunting. I told him, nothing. Then I said, "Nor will anything be hunting us."
Everyone on these threads talk of shooting for fun. Have you never come across a clay cutbank in the back country, anywhere from a hundred yards to quarter of a mile, or more, away? Is it shooting fun to try and hit tufts of clay, or rocks on the slide, when you can see where the bullets hit? And please, don't someone say I might shoot over the hill and hit someone. The slides I am talking about may be two thousand feet high.
 
Sure it is fun to have a rifle in the woods or some plinkin.

My thing is, that in NL it is illegal to have a firearm in an area where there is no open season, and is inhabited by game.. If there is a reason for self defense concerns, such as bears, you can get a permit, though bear attacks in Newfoundland are extremely rare.

I'll bet some of you will be surprised that I don't carry my rod in around the salmon rivers when the seasons are closed either.

back home I usually went out on the rocks or beaches for plinking and targets.

Some of the rules home are laxing a bit though. We now get to hunt on Sundays. we get a bounty for coyotes, and finally can use a .22 again
 
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imagine people carring rifles for fun and plinking too. thank god i live in the west. you can go to a gravel pit and shoot just because.
 
Woodsman said:
It's
somewhat similar in Quebec. You need a small game permit to hunt crow, but it is open year round. Some species have no specific season (open year round), while some like wolf and coyote have a season.

I carry a small game permit year round with me. It allows me to carry a shotgun or .22...and sometimes a rifle of any caliber for species like gound hogs(open year round), fox, coyote, and wolf.
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Can't hunt crow in Quebec during May and June.
 
It's far less anal in the west, plus seasons are far longer than in Ontario or PQ.

That being said, in the summer or dead of winter, I generally don't bring a rifle with me.
 
martinbns said:
It's far less anal in the west, plus seasons are far longer than in Ontario or PQ.

That being said, in the summer or dead of winter, I generally don't bring a rifle with me.
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I do. It only took a couple of "curious" bears and a cougar to show me the error of my ways. I'm a slow learner.
 
It's really getting scary when a gun owner is being asked BY ANOTHER GUN OWNER :eek: what his "legitimate reason" for carryng a gun on crown land is.
Forget the bears, cougars, zombies, etc....doesn't anyone shoot anymore just because it's fun? Aren't tin cans and pine cones a legitimate target anymore? WTF?
 
I took my 308 out with me on Saturday.No reason other than I felt like blasting off a box of shells.I do it all the time,I rarley go to the range.I have a bunch of different places where I set up targets and shoot.I'd be pissed if they started regulating that.

Anytime I think about moving back to Ontario all I have to do is get on CGN for awhile cures me right quick.
 
jjohnwm said:
It's really getting scary when a gun owner is being asked BY ANOTHER GUN OWNER :eek: what his "legitimate reason" for carryng a gun on crown land is.
Forget the bears, cougars, zombies, etc....doesn't anyone shoot anymore just because it's fun? Aren't tin cans and pine cones a legitimate target anymore? WTF?
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They are. But not NEARLY as fun as cougars, bears and Zombies.:D:shotgun:
 
It was not asked for anyone to justify why they would have a rifle in a closed season area where defense is not an issue. I simply asked reasoning.

You specified that yours would be to shoot pinecones.
I on the other hand would probably not bring a rifle into the woods where I can not legally hunt animals just to shoot pine cones.

Perhaps it is how a lot of people like me were raised. Don't get me wrong, I have wasted lots of bullets, but I was rared that bullets were for animals.
If you fired two bullets, you had two animals, or one animal and damn good reason.

Even now when I go hunting with people, If i don't see anything I'm often caught unloading my gun by the truck. This soon gets the attention of my fellow hunters who shout out, "aren't ya going to fire one off" and I usually do.

I find no need to bring a fishing pole with me on closed rivers, I find no need for a rifle in closed areas.

In bear country I have my gun always, fishing, camping, hiking...
 
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