I've probably benefitted from our law that makes hunting leases illegal in Saskatchewan. That doesn't mean that it makes any sense to me. Why shouldn't the landowner be able to charge what a willing buyer is willing to pay? Nobody else is expected to let their possessions be used free of charge. As near as I can tell, paid hunting is a fact of life world-wide, and sooner or later it will happen here too.
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I'm in Southwestern Ontario and it's the same deal here. If you're family you can hunt, if not and you want to hunt a property get ready to pony up some cash. Generally the properties or group of properties I go after for these are larger than what you are talking about (working on a deal for a scattered 600 acres right now) and I make sure it's for the season and me and my group are the only hunters granted permission. It is about the only way to go down here but I sure would look around and do some door knocking to find a better size property or group of them owned by one farmer. Taking my 12 year old daughter whom just got her apprentice card probably helps me out as well lol.
As others have said, this is an ILLEGAL practice...
Exchanging ANYTHING in return for part of the animal, or hunting priviledges on private property.
bearkilr
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Yes, we know, but this is about Ontario, so it really doesn't matter. That said, if you think it's not being done in a roundabout way through compensation of some sort, you've got your head in the sand.
Last I checked it's still legal for a landowner to limit access for hunting, so they can choose who to allow on their land. Some places require it to be posted, that's all. Regardless, we'll always have lots of public land with quality hunting in most areas of Canada, more than any other country in the world. We can consider ourselves very fortunate.
It's private land it's your paying to be there it's like renting property. It's legal to do as long as it's legal to hunt in that area on that land. Giving parts of the animal isn't legal due to the fact you can't sell the meat you hunt depends on the laws they're funny with that. You can hunt on public land if it's open to hunting there is always some were you can go people around here say the same thing all the land is private it's hard to find an area I go really there is a space to hunt right behind you just go down that road hike in this far and then you can legally hunt. They don't like the hiking part they want easy in and easy out. Hard to find a spot like that. Packing stuff in and out you can find lots of areas but near a road that's the challenge.
I know lots of hunters that give some of the meat to the owner of the land as a gift they happen to know each other for years and they're hunting partners most of the time 1 person just got to old to hunt ie can't climb the tree stand anymore so he hunts on his behalf just bags the animal and splits it to him it's the neighborly thing to do legal or not that's what they do every single year he goes out on his land across the road bags a deer gets some of the corn back and that's it.
i have a very nice old couple they are farmers let me hunt their property in southern on i knocked on door one day and aked if i could hunt they told me only coyote which is fine with me so next time i came and brought a 50 pound box of potatoes and a 24 of bud and thanked them for letting me hunt as i had to drive hours to hunt sometimes after hearing that they said that i cant hunt anything there and to use their land freely we have become friends and i thank them all the time it took me at least a 100 knocks on doors before i got a person who let me hunt now that i do i am thank full and bring goodies for the couple every time
I have heard of guys paying $3 per acre for 1000 acre property and that was for the season. If he is renting it out by the week then i bet he is expecting big money. I would just do what tar21 has done. Be nice, ask politely and a bottle of crown always helps.
CreamySmooth
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In Sask wildlife damage payouts are dependent on allowing hunting. Ask your local wildlife office if something like this applies.
First Time I heard this was from a hunter who asked for permission to hunt turkey and farmer being from Europe wanted $200. Hunter said I can buy a lot of turkey for $200. If this is the way of the future than only the rich will be hunting. I guess I am from the old school and if I have to pay to hunt on some ones land than I am going to take up knitting with the old ladies at church.
Grammar & punctuation... FTW !
You don't need to be literate to have a PAL. I know a truck driver who has both a Class 1 and PAL and can't spell his full name.
You can buy a lot of turkeys for the cost of the turkey hunting course, firearms course, hunting course, vest, clothing, gun, cleaning for the gun, knives, ammo, gas, wear and tear/regular maintenance on vehicle, time off of work, small game licence, turkey licence, outdoors card, ect ect.
Sadly, paying $200 to have sole access to property to hunt a $30 bird is really nothing in the grand scheme of things. Hunting isn't worth the meat-$ ratio.
Sadly, paying $200 to have sole access to property to hunt a $30 bird is really nothing in the grand scheme of things. Hunting isn't worth the meat-$ ratio.
