Ok, this one is truly funny!
Marihuana at Hunting Camp.
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Ok, this one is truly funny!
No doubt, it's like the past suggestions that Greentips change the name of CGN to something more politically correct.
Gun haters are gonna hate. Luckily most rabid anti's tend towards irrational, and the tide is changing with growing numbers of young shooters entering the sport/hobby/culture
Butcherbill
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You certainly got that right!
unstableryan
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Wow, 825 posts.
It's easy at camp. Hunting time, do your best to be clear and active, you are there for a couple reasons, a big one is trying to hunt. My camp in late November so it's dark at 4:30. Unloaded guns find their appropriate corners and you have a few drinks before dinner, you eat dinner, have a few more after and go to bed at a reasonable ~10pm ish time. That's enough sleep to be eager to go out in the morning.
All the properties get together one night and have a big bonfire party. 3/4 of the hunters are out first thing in the morning, some aren't, some people already have their buck. You either go out a bit later or enjoy a big breakfast and hunt lunch till 4:30 that day. No big deal unless you were silly, then you get a day or so of being made fun of, if anyone remembers something particularly funny.
Pot... We have a couple cops that come up. They don't care that there are some joints and cookies happening. Don't blow it in their face and it doesn't matter. They aren't rookies. A barn full gets their attention not a few joints don't unless you're an #######, but whiskey and vodka are better at making #######s than weed. Most of the guys smoked hippy weed back in the 70's and don't regularly smoke pot now except hunting camp. Professional people that are on a fun vacation that happens to be hunting and most of them are really good hunters also. Better than me and I have been hunting for about 25 years.
It's no big deal if there's respect to the camp owner and no one is an idiot. Idiots are usually weeded out of the group quickly. I keep getting invited back, so yay.
I can't believe some people int his post that don't sound like they have had fun since they were little kids.
It's easy at camp. Hunting time, do your best to be clear and active, you are there for a couple reasons, a big one is trying to hunt. My camp in late November so it's dark at 4:30. Unloaded guns find their appropriate corners and you have a few drinks before dinner, you eat dinner, have a few more after and go to bed at a reasonable ~10pm ish time. That's enough sleep to be eager to go out in the morning.
All the properties get together one night and have a big bonfire party. 3/4 of the hunters are out first thing in the morning, some aren't, some people already have their buck. You either go out a bit later or enjoy a big breakfast and hunt lunch till 4:30 that day. No big deal unless you were silly, then you get a day or so of being made fun of, if anyone remembers something particularly funny.
Pot... We have a couple cops that come up. They don't care that there are some joints and cookies happening. Don't blow it in their face and it doesn't matter. They aren't rookies. A barn full gets their attention not a few joints don't unless you're an #######, but whiskey and vodka are better at making #######s than weed. Most of the guys smoked hippy weed back in the 70's and don't regularly smoke pot now except hunting camp. Professional people that are on a fun vacation that happens to be hunting and most of them are really good hunters also. Better than me and I have been hunting for about 25 years.
It's no big deal if there's respect to the camp owner and no one is an idiot. Idiots are usually weeded out of the group quickly. I keep getting invited back, so yay.
I can't believe some people int his post that don't sound like they have had fun since they were little kids.
Butcherbill
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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Forget weed, ban 22lr!
Hahahaha, you can’t beat Tyron!
They're going to do it whether you like it or not. (P.S.: They already are.)
Whether you like it or not, just about anywhere you go, some people are going to be 'vaping'.
Q.) What, exactly, are they 'vaping'?
A.) Who knows?
I've had to cut short a scheduled range orientation session after I realized that the applicant was unable to follow simple instructions. He wasn't disabled, or special-needs, no, but he was chronic.
He really thought that people couldn't tell.
What we need - going forward, especially - is a simple method, or test, to assess a person's fitness (to engage in the specified activity, safely). So they're either fit enough, or they aren't.
Whether you like it or not, just about anywhere you go, some people are going to be 'vaping'.
Q.) What, exactly, are they 'vaping'?
A.) Who knows?
I've had to cut short a scheduled range orientation session after I realized that the applicant was unable to follow simple instructions. He wasn't disabled, or special-needs, no, but he was chronic.
He really thought that people couldn't tell.
What we need - going forward, especially - is a simple method, or test, to assess a person's fitness (to engage in the specified activity, safely). So they're either fit enough, or they aren't.
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canadian hunter312
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Hunting past legal light = poacher who was unsuccessful.
Shooting an animal past legal light = poacher who was successful.
Either way, taking or attempting to take an animal illegally outside of legal hunting hours makes that person a poacher.
canadian hunter312
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Animal attacks are basically a non issue for the majority of people in Ontario meaning there is no practical reason, besides poaching, to have an uncased firearm or bow at night unless hunting raccoon. Obviously it's a silly law that does nothing to prevent poaching and I disagree with it, but that's the way it is. A soft case for a gun or bow weighs ounces and takes very little space to carry so it's not like they're asking us to carry a heavy duty rigid case with locks to remain legal. It's comparable to carrying an extra toque in your pocket, a non issue.
The only people I know who complain about this law are the same guys who have no issue bending the rules to help them tag an animal...
Purple shoulder
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Fair enough. I hadn't realized that a gun sock was acceptable at the time I posted that.
Not sure why you want to indirectly associate me with poaching, but whatevs.
Thing is, most have grown up and discarded what is a bad habit, like the incessant chewing of gum, that used to pervade society.My mechanic is a die hard pot head and it tells,you can pick them out in a crowd.
Grizz
Just like you can spot the long time alcoholics and chronic cigarette smokers in a crowd.
Shall we just apply those stereotypes to anyone who has a few drinks on the weekend or has the odd cigarette when out with the boys?
I went through a period where I smoked a lot of pot. More than my share. I completed a degree during that time. Then I went through a long period where I didn't smoke any. Yet, I didn't let myself become a "hater" just because I had decided not to smoke pot any more. I just needed a good, long break.
These days, I have some a few times a week, in very very low doses, from a vaporizer. The "high" I get is sort of like smoking that weak stuff from the 70-80's. It just relaxes me and makes me more patient with people, and it also makes me very productive. I get far more stuff done around the house when "high" - and I drink a lot less when I am ""high", or not at all.
I think the one thing that is missing from modern "cannabis culture" is the idea that you don't need to get "totally baked" every time you have some pot. This is exacerbated by the fact that most pot these days is ridiculously potent. One toke off a joint is sometimes too much.
Anyway, for someone to cast judgment on me as a stereotypical pothead - well, I guess that's their call, but they are very wrong. You'd never pick me out of a crowd.
(FYI - Senior Security Advisor in the IT sector for 18 years - 6 figure salary)
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VanIsleCam
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Well I guess I am a rule bender. Can't say I have ever come back from an evening / afternoon stake out with my rifle in a case. Unload once I get to my quad or truck sure. Maybe its an Ontario issue.
The Ontario Conservation Officers are extremely picky about the 30 minute after sundown and 30 minute before sunrise firearms in a case rule. I have no problem in rifle season as a gunsock is legal and can be carried in a pocket and slipped on easily at the appropriate time. Archery season is a hassle though as the cases are just too bulky to cart around.
Yes definitely a PITA........A tip I read about for bow hunting........... carry a big cloth pillow case, put your bow in it and you are legal.....
Butcherbill
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Thank god we don’t have that stupid rule in BC.
Hey, good idea.
Geat idea, I'm sure those "sling cases" that cover the bow string from cam to cam would also work plus you get to sling your bow around your back...
Practically, yes. Legally, no. (In Ontario anyway)
They go so far as to say “encased on all six sides”...
Dumb.
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