new to hunting
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"...failed in informing me about the true nature and process of hunting..." The Hunter's Safety course is just that, a safety course. It's not about teaching you how to hunt. If that's what you were expecting.
In Peel Region, your best bet for finding a place to hunt and fellow hunters is to join a gun club. You'll meet some great people and sooner or later you will be invited to go hunting with one or two of 'em.
Meanwhile, hit the public library for books about hunting. Especially the habits of whatever game you want to hunt. You need to know how and where deer, for example, live.
Open season means the days hunting for a particular game animal in a particular WMU is allowed. For example, in WMU 61(Bancroft area.) deer season for residents runs from 1 Dec. to 7 Dec. And it's bows and muzzleloaders only. Hunting deer at any other time or with a rifle or shotgun is illegal. There's a bows only season in WMU 61 too. In any case, it's up to you to know the laws.
Go here too. http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/FW/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_168421.html
In Peel Region, your best bet for finding a place to hunt and fellow hunters is to join a gun club. You'll meet some great people and sooner or later you will be invited to go hunting with one or two of 'em.
Meanwhile, hit the public library for books about hunting. Especially the habits of whatever game you want to hunt. You need to know how and where deer, for example, live.
Open season means the days hunting for a particular game animal in a particular WMU is allowed. For example, in WMU 61(Bancroft area.) deer season for residents runs from 1 Dec. to 7 Dec. And it's bows and muzzleloaders only. Hunting deer at any other time or with a rifle or shotgun is illegal. There's a bows only season in WMU 61 too. In any case, it's up to you to know the laws.
Go here too. http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/FW/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_168421.html
I used w**pon as I was not sure at to what kind of hunting he was doing.Rifle muzzleloader,shotgun,archery or crossbow.Haveing just getting his hunter safety I am trying to simplify my post as much as i possibly can.
That was pretty good hansol.
For me it was:
1. Follow dad around
2. Imitate dad
3. Do it alone
I sympathize with the original poster.
But when I moved to the lower Mainland, I felt like a beginner again. Boy did I find the Fraser Valley Special Area regulations intimidating; can't go here, cant go there, permisison here, not there, careful of the 100 metres from the dike, open on saturdays and Sundays and Wednesdays at the Pitt, etc., etc., etc.
I didn't take up waterfowling until I had been down here about 17 years. Once I sat down and read them carefully though, I realized they weren't that complicated and that I shoulda done it sooner.
For me it was:
1. Follow dad around
2. Imitate dad
3. Do it alone
I sympathize with the original poster.
But when I moved to the lower Mainland, I felt like a beginner again. Boy did I find the Fraser Valley Special Area regulations intimidating; can't go here, cant go there, permisison here, not there, careful of the 100 metres from the dike, open on saturdays and Sundays and Wednesdays at the Pitt, etc., etc., etc.
I didn't take up waterfowling until I had been down here about 17 years. Once I sat down and read them carefully though, I realized they weren't that complicated and that I shoulda done it sooner.
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Little harder here you need written permission from land owners or so i have been told. The regulations are not clearly spelled out many hidden regs and requirements. The biggest problem will be access to land in and around where he lives unless he wants to do a four hour trip or so. That i am aware of there is no crown land you can hunt close to peel if there is, please someone let me know.
southern Ontario there is a lot of people and not much land. Farmers are not nearly as willing to give access to land unless they know you and lot of difficulty from the police when using firearms here. Hmmm, gotta talk to the wife about moving back out west again. Finding a mentor is his best bet. Mostly because the regulations are difficult to understand and not everything is spelled out in them. Or at least they seem vague to me.
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When in doubt - contact the Conservation Officer for the region you're considering hunting in. Tell them you're new, you don't want to make any mistakes, and could you pick their brain for a few minutes about the regs.
I've never delt with ontario co's, but out this way they respond very well to that. They'd much rather spend 15 mins on the phone with you now than a morning writing up paperwork with you later when it could be avoided.
Get a notepad, write down all the 'vague' regulations you find as you read the regs. Then use that as a basis to ask questions of the co. You'll likely find that very quickly most of it becomes much clearer to you, and you won't run into any problems.
For 'how to hunt' questions and the like, post 'em here. You'll get mostly good answers that will help make it clear for you. Just remember - there's often more than one way to skin the cat. (or the moose in this case
) So if you hear two different ways to achieve the same thing, it's not that one is 'wrong', its probably just people learned different ways that both work. I think you'll find if you write down your questions and then talk to the co, most of your problems will be cleared up. Even the 'where to go' stuff will likely be sorted, they'll give you some good ideas of where you can and cannot go in the area and what the populations of animals are like there.
Give it a shot, let us know how it went.
