...While I was out hunting Elk in Northern Saskatchewan Last week, I saw something that disturbed the $hit out of me. And after talking to a few of the other hunters from the area in which we were hunting, I was getting very, very pissed off.
...For the first four days of elk season, we watched as a plane flew around the area, very low(just above the tree tops), very slow, and always from the open hunting zone, into the no-hunting zones around it.
...The area I was in, has loads of elk from all the sign we saw. When we talked to local farmers about hunting on their land, they were more than eager to have the "Crop Eating Vermin" put into someones freezer, Quote "If the game wardens don't chase them all out of here with their plane, they do it every year."
We got comments like this from local farmers, hunters and even a guide.
...Now I'm not going to say I saw Game Wardens chasing Elk with their plane, but I will say that for four days we saw some very strange looking things happening in the sky. I can't see everyone saying what they were, without some small amount of truth in it some place. And why do we see Elk everywhere and then 1 hr into opening day we see nothing for 4 days and close to 3000 miles by vehicle and another 30-50 miles on foot.( opening day we only heard about a doozen shots fired, that doesn't make all the elk in a zone go into hidding)
...Why, for the two days before season opened, did we not see this plane And why, did the Game Wardens not stop and detain the plane and it's occupants
...Quote "It is against the law to use aircraft for any purpose connected with searching for, hunting or killing big game. (Saskatchewan Hunting Regulations Guide 2006)
...Hunting includes taking, wounding, killing, chasing, pursuing, worrying, capturing, following after or on the trail of, searching for, shooting at, trapping, setting snares for, stalking or lying in wait for any wildlife, whether or not the wildlife is subsequently captured wounded or killed. (Saskatchewan Hunting Regulations Guide 2006)
...If this is indeed what is happening, now we know why they asked for sidearms, their A-holes and are afraid their going to get shot.
... And the one that did stop us out there, thought he was Audy Murphy, no it was closer to Robo Cop, as he saunters up to our truck, hand on the butt of his pistola and demained in a very arrogant manner that we open the bolts on our rifles and show him our hunting licenses.
... Now after I take time off work, buy a licenses,pay for bullets and powder, pay for food and loggings, and fuel, walk around the woods all day hunting, I tend to get alittle pissed when I hear/see this kind of $hit.
...Now I have met some very nice Wardens in my years, but I have also met just as many A-holes. And they wonder why so many hunters wouldn't walk across the street to piss on them if they were on fire.
...So folks, what do you think, that we as hunters, should do about this kind of crap Personally, I e-mailed the minister of fish and game.
...For the first four days of elk season, we watched as a plane flew around the area, very low(just above the tree tops), very slow, and always from the open hunting zone, into the no-hunting zones around it.
...The area I was in, has loads of elk from all the sign we saw. When we talked to local farmers about hunting on their land, they were more than eager to have the "Crop Eating Vermin" put into someones freezer, Quote "If the game wardens don't chase them all out of here with their plane, they do it every year."
We got comments like this from local farmers, hunters and even a guide.
...Now I'm not going to say I saw Game Wardens chasing Elk with their plane, but I will say that for four days we saw some very strange looking things happening in the sky. I can't see everyone saying what they were, without some small amount of truth in it some place. And why do we see Elk everywhere and then 1 hr into opening day we see nothing for 4 days and close to 3000 miles by vehicle and another 30-50 miles on foot.( opening day we only heard about a doozen shots fired, that doesn't make all the elk in a zone go into hidding)
...Why, for the two days before season opened, did we not see this plane
And why, did the Game Wardens not stop and detain the plane and it's occupants ...Quote "It is against the law to use aircraft for any purpose connected with searching for, hunting or killing big game. (Saskatchewan Hunting Regulations Guide 2006)
...Hunting includes taking, wounding, killing, chasing, pursuing, worrying, capturing, following after or on the trail of, searching for, shooting at, trapping, setting snares for, stalking or lying in wait for any wildlife, whether or not the wildlife is subsequently captured wounded or killed. (Saskatchewan Hunting Regulations Guide 2006)
...If this is indeed what is happening, now we know why they asked for sidearms, their A-holes and are afraid their going to get shot.
... And the one that did stop us out there, thought he was Audy Murphy, no it was closer to Robo Cop, as he saunters up to our truck, hand on the butt of his pistola and demained in a very arrogant manner that we open the bolts on our rifles and show him our hunting licenses.
... Now after I take time off work, buy a licenses,pay for bullets and powder, pay for food and loggings, and fuel, walk around the woods all day hunting, I tend to get alittle pissed when I hear/see this kind of $hit.
...Now I have met some very nice Wardens in my years, but I have also met just as many A-holes. And they wonder why so many hunters wouldn't walk across the street to piss on them if they were on fire.
...So folks, what do you think, that we as hunters, should do about this kind of crap
Personally, I e-mailed the minister of fish and game.
