Ravens in Sask

[KDX]

I was talking to a guy tonight and apparently Ravens will be taken off the protected species list in Sask and will be considered fair game. I like that.

 

[BrotherRockeye]

open season on coal geese?

game on

 

[honkerhitter]

I don't know how superstisous you are but it's supposed to be bad luck to drop the hammer on a raven. Don't ask me why but bad juju none the less.

 

[KDX]

Black cats crossing the road in front of you are supposed to be bad luck also.

 

[the spank]

I have witnessed a few "mistaken identity kills" while crow hunting and no bad ju-ju yet.

 

[jaydog]

Some parts of BC have open seasons for them. Lots of people are concerned about the bad juju, but some people just enjoy that they are a bigger target than crows!

 

[Makwa]

The 1958 silver dollar had a raven totem pole on the front. It was called the death dollar. Bad juju.

 

[weldboss]

The Thompson Turkey, has to be the largest variety of raven.

 

[300Spartans]

Ravens are the harbingers of luck, aren't they? Good or bad or both? There's supposed to be a tradition linking them to the fall of the Hapsburgs.

 

[beefman]

Just a reminder for the Ont. hunters....they're illegal to shoot.

 

[Otokiak]

We have these BIG black birds up here ... I think they're RAVEN's or are they CROWS ... anyway I'm still waiting on the local Renewable Resource Officer to tell me if I can target shoot them ... but my father in-law said it's bad luck and besides when you're outland and see them in the sky, there's usually a kill near by which means wolves or wolverine ... so hmmmm do I target shoot them or not?

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA

p.s. my father in-law followed some in the sky this past weekend to find a downed tuktu(caribou) ... followed the tracks and got a HUGE white wolf ... maybe they are good luck?!

 

[gth]

Just a reminder for the Ont. hunters....they're illegal to shoot.

If you hit it, its a crow. If you miss, it was a raven.

 

[purple]

Several yrs ago I did a hail claim for a fellow up in the Swan River Valley,MB.
I was chatting with him before I checked his fields and he started telling me about his problems incl a bout of cancer, a recurrence of cancer,and wife leaving him after he was told about the recurrence.
He said what was really bothering him was the noisy ravens in the morning, to a point where he could'nt get enough sleep. He had been musing on a solution and figured what would work would be to set a propane tank out in the field, wire a bunch of meat to it, and then pop it with his rifle when there was a good enough concentration of ravens on it.
I mentioned the native superstition about bad luck after killing a raven, but told him that in his case, it would probably be OK.