New Hunting Rules in Manitoba

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So I heard from a couple of sources that the whitetail seasons will be greatly trimmed down this year. Apparently there will be one big season that encompasses archery, muzzleloader, and general rifle seasons but you will only be able to take one deer. Hopefully this is bogus but I doubt it.

I find it strange when I saw 81 deer in one day (muzzleloading) last year. And there sure seems to be excellent whitetail numbers in all of my travels lately.

I blame it on the many hunters I heard complaining about not seeing one deer all year last year. Just because the deer weren't moving doesn't mean they weren't out there. Manitoba's conservation is a joke.

And that is my rant.
 
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Proposed hunting season changes irk Wildlife Association




The province is being slammed by the Lac du Bonnet Wildlife Association for what it says is a shortage of resources stopping Manitoba Conservation from doing its work. In its recent newsletter e-mailed out last week, Wildlife Association Vice President Don Halbert says proposed amendments to the deer hunting season are being made without proper research into the matter.

Should the proposed changes be accepted for 2012, hunters will see deer hunting opportunities be shortened by approximately one-third for the archery, muzzleloader and high-power rifle seasons.

The archery season would be reduced from two months to six weeks, while the muzzleloader and high-power seasons will be reduced from three weeks to two weeks.

“The proposed changes run contrary to amendments that were made for the 2011 big game hunting season where additional deer tags were available in certain Game Hunting Areas because of Conservation’s perception of an overabundance of deer,” Halbert writes.

“This perception on the part of Manitoba Conservation personnel is based on discussions with hunters and outfitters, but very little in the way of hard scientific data, such as population surveys.”

The solution, the Wildlife Association says, is for the province to funnel more cash and resources to Manitoba Conservation.

Manitoba Conservation officials “require the resources and tools to do their jobs. All decisions concerning wildlife and fisheries need to be made using realistic and current scientific data. The guesswork needs to be taken out of the equation,” Halbert writes.

The newsletter goes on to reference the recent partial moose hunting ban instituted in Game Hunting Area (GHA) 26, where some rights-based moose hunting is still permitted. The Wildlife Association, along with the Manitoba Wildlife Federation, have lobbied for a complete closure of moose hunting in GHA 26.

The province “needs to quit playing politics with our resources and do what is right for the wildlife and fishery stock as opposed to certain segments of society,” Halbert goes on to write.

The Lac du Bonnet Leader – March 7, 2012
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I will take the hit for a couple of years, the numbers are horribly low in my area, but that is more due to the 2010-11 winter and the amount of predators. My grouse hunting season was absolute garbage also, saw more coyotes and wolves (not good when ya only have a single shot 20ga with 7 1/2 shot LOL)....
 
I saw the following online over the weekend and confirmed it with my brother who is a conservation officer here in MB. As far as I know there is still no final decision made for changes (if any) to the archery and muzzle season length. Only the fact that the bag limit will be only 1 deer for all seasons combined in most GHA's.

"Manitoba Conservation will be reducing the general rifle season
to two weeks for the fall 2012 season, but there will be exceptions made for the areas in which they are actively managing the deer population. That means there will be NO season reduction in areas 17A, 26, 36, 34A, 38 and
the near-urban portion of 25B. Tags will also not be reduced in these areas, meaning the (resident-only) second-deer and third-deer tags will continue to be available in these areas. As previously stated, all other GHAs will have a 2-week general rifle season and a one deer per hunter rule for 2012."
 
bronco_mudder said:
I saw the following online over the weekend and confirmed it with my brother who is a conservation officer here in MB. As far as I know there is still no final decision made for changes (if any) to the archery and muzzle season length. Only the fact that the bag limit will be only 1 deer for all seasons combined in most GHA's.

"Manitoba Conservation will be reducing the general rifle season
to two weeks for the fall 2012 season, but there will be exceptions made for the areas in which they are actively managing the deer population. That means there will be NO season reduction in areas 17A, 26, 36, 34A, 38 and
the near-urban portion of 25B. Tags will also not be reduced in these areas, meaning the (resident-only) second-deer and third-deer tags will continue to be available in these areas. As previously stated, all other GHAs will have a 2-week general rifle season and a one deer per hunter rule for 2012."
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"Actively managing" the deer population, that's a good one. No seasons or bag limits for First Nations or Metis........a fantastic management tool ! :rolleyes:
 
That is bulls**t. I'm sick and tired of the freaking NDP messing with Manitoba. First they raise taxes on just about everything and now they are messing with my hunting. And it's not their fault they're stupid. It's the idiotic voters who think that life is so good with the NDP.
 
Just talked to a CO today and here's the skinny. All General Rifle and Muzzleloader seasons are reduced by one week to two weeks, Archery season is also being reduced significantly. The exceptions are in eastern Manitoba WMU's 26 & 36 where the seasons and extra tags are supposedly staying intact. When I asked why they were keeping extra tags in place in a zone where the deer numbers are down the toilet(I hunt the Whiteshell area), he said because the mild winter this year allowed for smaller mortality rates. He said it would take no time at all for the deer numbers to rebound. If there are no deer to begin with, extra tags just mean that the ones left and any fawn crop will be pounded. The game managers at Natural Resources must be complete idiots. The last big deer die off in that area was after the two bad winters in 95/96. Back then they went to a buck only system for years and it took a good ten years for numbers to come back. Meanwhile on a seperate rant the supposed moose protection in WMU 26 has been clawed back to two tiny areas where logging is occuring. What a joke! The whole zone was supposed to be closed but ........ you figure it out I don't want an infraction. I guess when all the game is gone in the eastern part of the province I'll have to go elsewhere.
 
Why don,t they grab all the 18,000 plus deer that live within the city limits and throw them to the wolves that they transplanted in Birds Hill . I will get my deer driving down Roblin blvd not with a rifle or bow but with a 4runner LOL
 
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