So Your Hunting near the border and....

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Well like i said in the title, So your hunting near the border and i mean well thin 600 ms of it, you shot your game and bad luck its wounded and it takes off towards the border (U.S. border). So then you begin to track it, you follow the blood trail right up to the border and just maybe twenty feet on the other side of the line you see it laying on the ground under a tree. What do you do? What can you do? and how should you go about doing it with out causing an international incident?
 
Is there actually a fence or some kind of posting that would show you that it's on american soil? Like really, I would have to say that if that were me and there was nothing around, i'd be pulling it back!
 
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rig a make shift lasso and rope it around the antlers and drag it back either that or devise a grapple hook system and drag it back. other wise call the co's and inform them that you shot an animal and it died 20 feet on the other side and you need a CO to come and retreive it so you dotn get charged with an offence
 
jmasson said:
I'm going to go ahead and fetch my animal. If someone decides they want to make a big deal about it they can go right ahead.:bangHead:
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Big deal potentially equals 5.56 assault rifle pointed at your head by very unfriendly Border Patrol types.

Big deal potentially means getting getting up close and personal with Homeland Security types who take their duties very seriously.

Big deal potentially means you spending some quality with a cellmate of their choosing if you didn't leave your ammo and firearm on the other side because you illegal imported both. They are VERY touchy about that.

Big deal potentially means losing your firearm, being deported and having a ##### of a time getting back into the States again including something as simple as transferring planes in the U.S.

Big deal potentially means losing your firearms and hunting licences on this side when you get back.

You might, just might be able to claim ignorance that you didn't know where the border was and thought you were still in Canada. But if you knew or they think you knew they will make a big deal about it.

You can decide whether a game animal is worth it. If I knew it had crossed I would keeping hunting on my side of the line.
 
Claybuster said:
Big deal potentially equals 5.56 assault rifle pointed at your head by very unfriendly Border Patrol types.

Big deal potentially means getting getting up close and personal with Homeland Security types who take their duties very seriously.

Big deal potentially means you spending some quality with a cellmate of their choosing if you didn't leave your ammo and firearm on the other side because you illegal imported both. They are VERY touchy about that.

Big deal potentially means losing your firearm, being deported and having a ##### of a time getting back into the States again including something as simple as transferring planes in the U.S.

Big deal potentially means losing your firearms and hunting licences on this side when you get back.

You might, just might be able to claim ignorance that you didn't know where the border was and thought you were still in Canada. But if you knew or they think you knew they will make a big deal about it.

You can decide whether a game animal is worth it. If I knew it had crossed I would keeping hunting on my side of the line.
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And since when did Homeland security start patrolling the Wilderness areas of the US/Canada border? Most places you wouldn't even know that you crossed a line.
 
bill c68 said:
And since when did Homeland security start patrolling the Wilderness areas of the US/Canada border? Most places you wouldn't even know that you crossed a line.
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The U.S. Border Patrol is a department of Homeland Security. You are kidding yourself to think they have not stepped up border survelliance since 9/11 including aerial, electronic and sesmic monitoring. Take the chance if you'd like. Odds are you wouldn't be caught. But it could be one seriously nasty event if you are.
 
But seriously though, is there something like a sign, or anything to let you know that you are about to cross the border? Unless you had a GPS or a really know your way around a map and compass, how would you know where "the line" is and that your animal is on the other side?
 
I think a guy would be nuts to cross into the US illegally these days to pursue a wounded animal. It might be a few years before you cross the border back into Canada.
 
Ah bull####!

Here on the great lakes so called "boarder crossings" happen all the time by people fishing.

The trouble you get is directly porportional to the #### that catches you!
 
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Well for many years we were lucky enough to be drawn for Antelope about 7 I think.
We hunted on the now Grass Lands Park area which of course was not there then.
The Walkers and Gillespie’s (spelling?) were kind enough to give us the run of their land.
At one point we were checked and those plates were not Canadian.
CO laughed and told us this happened from time to time as hunters followed a animal and with no and I mean no border markings how do you tell, days before GPS units.
Pointed us in the right direction and we drove back the 15 miles we had overshot.
Don’t know what things would be like today but wonder if the borders are now marked in the hills?
Thanks
Don
 
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I'd use my cell phone to notify the nearest border crossing, and get permission, or have them come and assist. By the letter of the law, they probably don't have to assist you, but you have to have some faith in humanity. Odds are the US border guard is a hunter and will understand your situation.
I would not cross the border (knowingly) without notifying US officials first.
 
Unless the line is painted on the ground or I'm an anal retentive arsehole I would go and get it as likely no one could positively tell you where the line is exactley (give or take 20ft) anyways.
 
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