What do you do if with a wounded animal , shot out of season
- Thread starter aldorado
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- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
If possible alert the authorities BEFORE putting it down. Otherwise, there is no way for them to determine if the animal could have been saved, or if YOU are the real culprit.
EnfieldMike
CGN Regular
- Location
- Northern NS
Call first then shoot if possible
I would be outta there...........
Definetly feel bad about leaving it to suffer, but thems the stupid rules made by stupid people.
I'm not risking my hunting/guns/job just to tap a round into a suffering moose or deer. Its really to bad I even have to think about this decision. 15 years ago I would have just done the right thing. Not so easy anymore.
Definetly feel bad about leaving it to suffer, but thems the stupid rules made by stupid people.
I'm not risking my hunting/guns/job just to tap a round into a suffering moose or deer. Its really to bad I even have to think about this decision. 15 years ago I would have just done the right thing. Not so easy anymore.
Leave it. Call the MNR and leave a message on their voice mail that will most surely be ignored because they are too busy staffing a PETA conference or explaining again why despite the while number of attacks are up, bear numbers are actually down. :roll:
Call the OPP if it presents a hazard to road traffic. Drive on.
Call the OPP if it presents a hazard to road traffic. Drive on.
- Location
- interior b.c.
I was talking to a CO the other day about what if I came accross a deer that had been hit by a car.He said drop it and contact the co's as soon as possible.With a gunshot deer I'd just get the hell out of there and hope there's no CO around to pin the blame on me.
BIGREDD said:
I found a doe caught in a barbed wire fence. There was no doe season so I phoned the C.O.s and they said they were on their way. After a few minutes I shot it. They never did show up.
Close to town though I waited for them to show up as it was not on my property and there would have been a big mess if the owners showed up as the owners were #######s.
Though I helped the C.O. drag the animal out I walked away when she shot it. That sort of stuff really tugs at my heart strings. Dog owners should walk over and see what their beloved pets really are capable of.
Last winter we had a cow moose with an injured leg get bogged down in heavy snow. Called the local wildlife officers and informed them about the animal. I was told to leave her alone, to not try to dig her out, that the "professionals" would handle it and that they were on their way.
They never showed that day, nor the next, nor the day after that, despite my calls and the calls of other concerned hunters in the area. The moose, bogged down in the deep snow and unable to free herself eventually died of exposure and probably stress after three days. The wildlife officers never bothered to show first nor last.
I regret not attempting to at least dig her out myself, despite the danger. I love wildlife, and, as a responsible hunter, I think its the duty of every individual to help protect our natural resources and to leave the wilderness better than we found it. She could've been saved had the bureaucrats decided to get off their duffs. Sadly, we all failed that moose, most especially the so-called "Conservation Officers."
They never showed that day, nor the next, nor the day after that, despite my calls and the calls of other concerned hunters in the area. The moose, bogged down in the deep snow and unable to free herself eventually died of exposure and probably stress after three days. The wildlife officers never bothered to show first nor last.
I regret not attempting to at least dig her out myself, despite the danger. I love wildlife, and, as a responsible hunter, I think its the duty of every individual to help protect our natural resources and to leave the wilderness better than we found it. She could've been saved had the bureaucrats decided to get off their duffs. Sadly, we all failed that moose, most especially the so-called "Conservation Officers."
I have an uncle that shot a deer a few years ago, in season, with an arrow sticking out of it, he still has the arrow. Unless it poses a road hazzard i'd say leave it alone, the predators will take care of it sooner or later. Cruel yes, but so is mother nature.
In 1989 I was working on a large drilling program 2 hours drive west of Thunder Bay.
We had a problem bear that was getting bolder to the point of attempting to get into the mess.
We called the CO's in Thunder Bay and asked them to come out with a culvert trap.
They told us to shoot it.
Lazy fuc*ers. That's what we eventually had to do.
We had a problem bear that was getting bolder to the point of attempting to get into the mess.
We called the CO's in Thunder Bay and asked them to come out with a culvert trap.
They told us to shoot it.
Lazy fuc*ers. That's what we eventually had to do.
