Small Game Hunting Victoria BC

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Just wondering where a good area to hunt small game like rabbits, squirrel, ect would be close to victoria
 
I must say, in the times I have been up hunting on the island from Shawnnigan to Ladysmith, I have never seen a rabbit.

I have seen rabbit sign and tracks when there is snow but no rabbits.


One place I'd recommend though that had lots of sign and has been recalled to me by the name "rabbit road" is a shot only area on the way to chemainus behind Russel Farm Market behind a farmers field that would be a good bet for small game hunting.

I've also gone there late in the season for deer as it is accessible and usually populated as it is a special area for antlerless

Here it is here, if you scroll right you will find the highway and the red roofed building is the russel farm market.

The paths are behind that big field at the end of grace rd.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=48.895026,-123.725967&spn=0.01343,0.038581&t=h&z=15

check your hunting synopsis in region 1 in the special areas maps, you will see that it is in a shot only-antlerless special area.

Lots of rabbit (apparently) and deer late in the season as they come down off the mountain.
 
I would suggest that some of the previous posters might consider reading the game regs before they go putting in print what they shoot in the bush. Birds not listed as having an open season in the regs are on the no shoot list.
As to rabbits, I think you will have to find them on private land because more or less they live in open fields which almost by definition are privately owned (otherwise they revert to brush and forest)

cheers mooncoon
 
never seen a rabbit during my adventures in the bush, seem a few squirrels the last couple weeks though, coons are open all year, but i don't eat coon,,,
 
Last time I was at Beacon Hill Park there were some real trophy squirrels hangin' out...:eek::D:rolleyes:
 
Except for grouse I always found Vancouver Island empty of small game except for grouse in season.

The wild squirrels there are not legal game animals.

And I've yet to see an upland waterfowl or a licence for one.
 
Their use to be a fair amount of wild bunnies off the logging roads heading back out behind Sooke and Muir Crk. and Shawnigan in the days when their was public access. Don't know if they are their anymore.

The last good shoot I had was of liberated "hospital bunnies".
 
actually rodngun you are breaking the law, all birds not schedule C or listed in the hunting regs are protected by law:

http://www.bclaws.ca/Recon/document/freeside/-- W --/Wildlife Act RSBC 1996 c. 488/00_96488_01.xml

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/cos/info/wildlife_human_interaction/docs/nuisance_fauna.html#


BC Wildlife Act

Birds, nests and eggs

34 A person commits an offence if the person, except as provided by regulation, possesses, takes, injures, molests or destroys

(a) a bird or its egg,

(b) the nest of an eagle, peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, osprey, heron or burrowing owl, or

(c) the nest of a bird not referred to in paragraph (b) when the nest is occupied by a bird or its egg.
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Ministry of Environment
BIRDS

All birds are considered wildlife and are afforded full protection under the BC Wildlife Act. A person commits an offence if the person except as provided by regulation or by an issued permit, possesses, takes, injures, molests or destroys a bird or its eggs.

Under the Wildlife Act Designation and Exemption Regulation 253/2000 Schedule C, point 2, the following species of birds and their nests or eggs can be destroyed without a permit: crows (except common ravens), black-billed magpies, European starlings, house sparrows, rock doves and brown-headed cowbirds.

Some species of birds are classified as game birds. Hunting seasons and bag limits for game birds are published in the annual Hunting Regulation Synopsis. This synopsis is available via a link on the Ministry of Environment's website.
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I think it is you that needs to read the regs
 
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So you are saying a robin, is protected by law? no where in there does it say ROBIN or any bird I have mentioned besides the ones I have listed that I hunt druing season with a tag. So since it doesnt say robin thus making it protectd by law? Please be so kind to show me the PERMIT needed to shoot a robin kind sir?? (sarcasm)
 
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They are not listed as protected OR un-protected from reading what you have sent BUT lets say as a little kid Iv sat on my farm on weekends shooting robbins with a pellet gun..makes me a criminal. If I were to take this up with a CO would they be so eager to handcuff me as a poacher. I highly doubt it. Their fore is that a loop hole most likely not but do people suggest shooting a robin is illegal, I highly doubt any one takes that in to consideration. I dont believe anything that I have shot and eaten was illegal. Robins are one of the most common, reproductive birds and in shooting/eating them is no way illegal. BUT since you are all making a scene I will erase my comments due to your emotional estrogen level rising. I dont know if this plays in to factor but I'm a status first nations, dont normally play this card due to the fact that its a gimme but here we go.

ABORIGINAL HUNTING
4The first priority of the Ministry of
Environment is to ensure the long-term
conservation of wildlife populations and
their habitats.The Ministry also recognizes
that Indian people have aboriginal rights to
harvest wildlife for sustenance (food, social
and ceremonial purposes) in their traditional
areas. Such uses of wildlife must be sustainable,
and harvesting methods must not
jeopardize safety or the use and enjoyment
of property. Any hunting of wildlife species
for sale or barter, in whole or in part, is not
legal, except as authorized by regulation or
where there is a demonstrated aboriginal
or treaty right to do so.
4Under the Wildlife Act ‘Indian’ means a
person who is defined as a status Indian
under the Indian Act (Canada).

THUS making it legal. The Ministry also recognizes
that Indian people have aboriginal rights to
harvest wildlife for sustenance.

I can throw all I want at it but you wont budge and I wont budge. I will no longer continue to read this thread, cheers.
 
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Good thing I grew up when there were still no regulations like that yet...

As a kid I learnt to shoot fast and accurately by shooting chickadies/robins/sparrows/crows/frogs/squirrels/etc then progressed to gophers/rabbits and anything else that moved.

Yep did a lot of killing not proud of it just what I did... :redface:

Sorry rod&gun but I have to back ceriksson on this unfortunately this is the law now.

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I now get my shooting pleasures/practice from shooting rocks (yes rocks)/dead trees/stumps oh yeah dead popular trees have little black targets all over them.
 
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Robins and nearly all other song birds are classed as migratory and ALL migratory birds are protected by law. The only ones you can shoot are the ones they specifically give you permission to shoot (i.e. ducks, geese etc.).
 
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