Stop Saskatchewan's CWD Hunt

When we hunt away from home we get RM maps from Rm offices. Then ask the administrator who farms what land. In most cases 2 or 3 farmers farm 90% of a township. Prepare to spend the whole day. I always take the grandsons as they will be along in the fall. We have never been told 'no' Sometimes asked to stay away from yardsite, cattle etc, but most guys say something like 'treat my property like you would want yours treated. We always ask about shooting near cattle. Anyone that understands guns usually says no problem. The trick is to get your area set up ahead of time. Past my bedtime:) Mark
 
2fat2fly said:
That is the one issue I have with hunters on my home quarter. I don't need my dog rolling around in a gut pile, or the coyotes the gut piles draw in. If hunters would only bother to ask...
Next year, I'm going to post my cell phone number. If that doesn't work, up go the gates.
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thats a great idea !! more than once i spend too much time tracking down owners from farm to farm. And the Hanley sgi, guy was a huge help pointing out homesteads on his rm map...a posted phone number would deter guys who would rather have permission from just hunting the land anyways..

i hunted in zone 29 quite a bit this year for mulies and whiteys.....before the rifle season, in muzzle season there was mulie does everywhere, in great abundance.....after the first shot of rifle they seemed to disappear. There was alot of hunters in the pfra in that zone but they all drove around....i got 4 shots at the biggest muley i've ever seen by walking through the hills, as well as passed up on 2 very respectable bucks....

And apparently according to serm there is enough deer in the military base that they opened up another cwd hunt for 4 weeks....

Having said that i believe that alot of deer were pushed across the highway into the next zone where there is no cwd hunt....and thats not good.
 
There are a vast number of deer around than when I was young. Herds of this size were never seen and mueys were not seen North of Sakatoon and a mosse south of the northern forest. To see antelope in the forest is weird. I dont belive there are as many hunters and many first nations people dont hunt in the numbers that they used to 12 months of the year. Hunters who dont treat farmers land with respect are ruining hunting. The good news is that there is more enforcement.
 
Actually there weren't many whitetails in the Meadow Lake area until the 40's and 50's-the oldtimers talk about seeing their first 'jumper' deer.Mulies are starting to come back a bit lately. There's been antelope spotted up here too which is undenialably weird. There are ALOT more deer than there were in the 70's and 80's. I don't agree much with the way the CWD deal is being handled either.
 
xxclaro said:
That seems to be the problem out here in AB as well, no one wants to ask permission. I don't own land, but I call and ask permission for the properties I hunt every year. And, this week I brought a bottle of rum to all the guys who's land I hunted too. All of them seemed a bit shocked, they certainly weren't used to that. I grew up in Ontario and remember what it's like to have almost no land to hunt on and what I did have was constantly being pushed by big groups. I appreciatte the guys who let me on their land, and make sure they know it. This year almost all of them told me of their concern with the truck hunters driving around on their land and spreading clubroot, and where quite upset about it.
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No one wants to ask permission.. ya right. I TRY, but land owners don't post contact info and you actually have no quick way to even know who the land owner is,, UNLESS YOU BUY one of those $100 maps that show the land owners,, and that is if its up to date. LETS be honest here, IF YOU THE LAND OWNER WANTS people to contact you first, THEN BLOODY well put your phone number on your SIGNS... and if that still does not work then COMPLAIN.. because I'm #####ing at land owners that think we can read minds.
 
K98ACTION said:
No one wants to ask permission.. ya right. I TRY, but land owners don't post contact info and you actually have no quick way to even know who the land owner is,, UNLESS YOU BUY one of those $100 maps that show the land owners,, and that is if its up to date. LETS be honest here, IF YOU THE LAND OWNER WANTS people to contact you first, THEN BLOODY well put your phone number on your SIGNS... and if that still does not work then COMPLAIN.. because I'm #####ing at land owners that think we can read minds.
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Are you referring to private land???? If so, may I suggest buying your own if you don't want to ask for permission. Here in Manitoba, the onus is on the hunter to figure out where they are, no need for posting. Too bad AB and SK haven't adopted that policy.
 
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K98ACTION said:
No one wants to ask permission.. ya right. I TRY, but land owners don't post contact info and you actually have no quick way to even know who the land owner is,, UNLESS YOU BUY one of those $100 maps that show the land owners,, and that is if its up to date. LETS be honest here, IF YOU THE LAND OWNER WANTS people to contact you first, THEN BLOODY well put your phone number on your SIGNS... and if that still does not work then COMPLAIN.. because I'm #####ing at land owners that think we can read minds.
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Why should a landowner give a damn about making it easy, quick or cheap for hunters, snow mobilers, et al to access their PRIVATE property? The law is quite clear that it's the legal obligation of the individual wanting access to secure permission prior to entering the property. The only other option is to hunt land where permission is not required, ie crown, DU, etc.
 
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If hunters would spend 1/2 day in the summer with an rm map, you could have permission to hunt in 6 townships. Most of the farmland is controlled by a few farmers. Also most folks would go thru your map and tell you who controls what land. It requires a little planning and 'wasting' time. It seems easier to drive into someones yard at 6am and bang on the door, or go roaring across fields with the old 4x4. This makes a lot of friends for sure.
Last fall (2007) we had a group of hunters drive thru a fence and crash into a creek. Cost to have the fence repaired was almost $2000 and we had to wait till June to get it done. Took several letters and threats of legal action to get reimbursed. These guys were pissed at my neighbor for calling me to report their stupidity. The same insurance that fixed their truck eventually fixed the fence. Granted this is not the norm but these are the incidents one remembers. All of us need to remember it's a privilege to use others property for hunting, snomobiling, or any other activity. Mark
 
Permission and most often a pretty good idea of where to hunt if you bother to ask. If you hunt on foot there are very few landowners that will turn you down. I was hunting in a big community pasture one time and got into a private ranch by mistake-the landowner came along on a quad and gave me some grief-was going to give me a quad ride to my vehicle-when I told him where it was 5-6 miles away at the pasture gate he whipped out a pen and gave me written permission. I've had some good hunts on his place since then.
 
Its very simple.If you don't want anyone to hunt on your land,post it "No Hunting".If you want people to ask permission then post it that way,but it would be nice to see a phone # if it is posted that way.
From what I've seen in some areas,it doesn't matter how many signs you put up,there will always be some who go hunt that land anyway.There are knobs who hunt and knobs who farm.Same as everything else in life.
 
I've never had a problem locating a land owner in Sask.,I use the RM maps and a cell phone.I'm hunting geese not deer,and I have NEVER been turned down when asking for permission to hunt,as soon as the landowner finds out I'm from BC,it's go right ahead.Great people and they are all welcome to retire in BC! Mur
 
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