Why is it illegal to use air craft when hunting?

Jim Rock

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I'm just double reading my BC regs and it says it's unlawful to transport hunters or game in a chopper. It also says you can't hunt within 6 hours of getting off an aircraft. What the hell is that all about? I have a friend with a helicopter but i guess we can't ever take it into the bush to hunt!

Anyone have a logical explanation for this? It makes about as much sense as not swimming after eating to me....

Thanks
 
Unfair advantage I'd guess, over other hunters and prey. You can cover a ton of ground in a short time to locate all the game/ best game in the area.
 
You can use it to spot animals or a herd and then land and stalk and shoot them more easily. I guess it's considered unsporting and unfair advantage over the animal. That's the reasoning I believe, right or wrong.
 
It's so you don't take your chopper up to the top of the mountain, find the sheep/goats/deer from the air, land and shoot them. It's not fair chase. Airplane is the same thing, you aren't allowed ot spot game from the air, land and go shoot them.

Fair chase is a basic principle of the North American Hunting Model, this is in your CORE manual.
 
My thoughts are as follows.

Using a helicopter to get into remote areas for hunting completely changes the entire idea of fair chase. (and fair chase is ideally what hunting is about to anyone ethical)

Mountain sheep, goats, etc could easily be found while buzzing around in a chopper , then hunted virtually to extinction afterward.... Even when spotted from a small plane , this gives unfair advantage, so therefore the 6hour rule. (I thought it was even longer)

By not allowing helicopters to transport hunters , everyone is on more or less equal ground. If you want to hunt those remote areas, you will need to go in on horseback (or quads) or on foot ....

makes perfect sense to me

cheers

Lucky...
 
LuckyStrike said:
My thoughts are as follows.

Using a helicopter to get into remote areas for hunting completely changes the entire idea of fair chase. (and fair chase is ideally what hunting is about to anyone ethical)

Mountain sheep, goats, etc could easily be found while buzzing around in a chopper , then hunted virtually to extinction afterward.... Even when spotted from a small plane , this gives unfair advantage, so therefore the 6hour rule. (I thought it was even longer)

By not allowing helicopters to transport hunters , everyone is on more or less equal ground. If you want to hunt those remote areas, you will need to go in on horseback (or quads) or on foot ....

makes perfect sense to me

cheers

Lucky...
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Aircraft are used all the time to transport hunters to and from hunt camps and locations. there is a stipulation that you wait a certain amount of time before you actually carry out a hunt.
 
Drones fall under the definition of an aircraft, pretty basic. It's a machine that is capable of flight.
 
Jim Rock said:
I'm just double reading my BC regs and it says it's unlawful to transport hunters or game in a chopper. It also says you can't hunt within 6 hours of getting off an aircraft. What the hell is that all about? I have a friend with a helicopter but i guess we can't ever take it into the bush to hunt!

Anyone have a logical explanation for this? It makes about as much sense as not swimming after eating to me....

Thanks
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Some rules and laws make very good sense. It amazes me that some folks are this short sighted...
 
Jim Rock said:
I'm just double reading my BC regs and it says it's unlawful to transport hunters or game in a chopper. It also says you can't hunt within 6 hours of getting off an aircraft. What the hell is that all about? I have a friend with a helicopter but i guess we can't ever take it into the bush to hunt!

Anyone have a logical explanation for this? It makes about as much sense as not swimming after eating to me....

Thanks
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Fly helicopter for a living, and guide in the fall. The two don't mix, hunting in BC ought to be a boots and backpacks proposition and it is. We have enough advantage with modern rifles and scopes, sheep hunting, and any hunting for that matter would risk being completely ruined as a sport if you could use a helicopter. No more would one have to train for a year for their mountain hunt, you'd just land up top and shoot one. I have an outfitting territory that is 90%+ inaccessible, too steep for horses, a limited number of floatplane accessible lakes, and a helicopter would open up my business and increase access and effectiveness exponentially. This is exactly why they shouldn't be permitted, and aren't, it would take the sport out of it and open the mountains to the less dedicated. It would also sully the experience. I've landed on mountains in work machines, and the view is great. But not like when you've got there under your own power.

amolkapoor said:
Not sure how this will work with newer technology like drones.
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Also prohibited in the regs already. Wisely.
 
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