Trespassers

1963beretta said:
A land owner cannot prevent a hunter from recovering down game on their property if the game was shot outside their property. If a hunter contacts the proper authority to request entrance to recover game, the land owner cant prevent it. A CO provided me this info not long ago. Having said that, a hunter cant just help themselves to the land, they need to follow proper protocol.
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No one can give permission to enter but the landowner. A CO cannot give you permission to retrieve an animal or force the landowner to let you, or charge anyone with letting an animal spoil in that situation.
 
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blargon said:
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No one can give permission to enter but the landowner. A CO cannot give you permission to retrieve an animal or force the landowner to let you, or charge anyone with letting an animal spoil in that situation.
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Correct. If someone shoots a deer and it enters your property and dies, they need your permission to retrieve it. the Ont TPA overrides your "right" to retrieve a game animal.
 
blargon said:
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No one can give permission to enter but the landowner. A CO cannot give you permission to retrieve an animal or force the landowner to let you, or charge anyone with letting an animal spoil in that situation.
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a sad situation that is!
 
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What is the difference between letting an old deer die of natural causes on your property during hunting season and letting a wounded deer die during hunting season?

Both cases are letting the animal "return to the cycle of life".

Kind of parallels the catch and release of a fish you know that won't make it, but you have to let it go anyhow, so it returns and feeds other critters in the system.

Devils advocate here. Don't like to see waste
 
I have a quarter section (160 acres) central Alberta and have had several problems with hunters, and have faced the business end of a couple of rifles. The invention of the cell phone has evened the playing field, I simple turn on the video camera and let it record, most hunters leave after they know they are being recorded. Licence plates, faces, what type of firearms they have. If they wave it at me if I tell them to leave and I tell them that I am now going to the cops. Been to court a couple of times, and make it very clear to the crown prosecutor that I want these guys going to jail or a life time firearms ban. The video recording is irrefutable and the court has convected both of the worst hunters that I have had to deal with.
 
Any time that hunters approach me about retrieving a wounded animal that has entered my property, I don't have a problem with that, as long as it doesn't turn out to be a BS excuse to hunt. I hate to see wasted game and can appreciate the fact that a hunter will make every effort to finish off and remove his/her kill.
All I ask in return is that any gates they open, close them. Don't leave a mess and don't piss me off because I have there name and plate number.
How hard is it to ask first???
 
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