Late goose season question

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Originally Posted by Sprite

Sounds like the field across from the curling club ;)

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Close! That's another one as well. Usually we dont bother competing for that one.

Don't understand why bandwagon would get any grieve for going to council, the opposition could have shown up and stopped it the other way. I'd prefer not to have Sunday hunting as well. Didn't have it for a lot of years, didn't seem to stop people from finding the time to hunt.

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Originally Posted by sabmgb

Don't understand why bandwagon would get any grieve for going to council, the opposition could have shown up and stopped it the other way. I'd prefer not to have Sunday hunting as well. Didn't have it for a lot of years, didn't seem to stop people from finding the time to hunt.

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Sunday gun hunting opens up opportunity for multi-species hunting in the fall. Opposing it because you want to keep a single species hunt is selfish.

Yes, the opposition could have showed up but they didn't have to because they had hunters doing their work for them. Most people who have regular jobs only have an opportunity to hunt on the weekends. Limiting their gun hunting opportunities to simply Saturday automatically halves their field time which will decrease success. Let's not forget Jewish hunters who are supposed to observe Saturdays as their religious day. With no Sunday gun hunting, they are perhaps the most limited.

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Originally Posted by kk1

Close! That's another one as well. Usually we dont bother competing for that one.

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I work at Ignatius next to the cemetery. Those guys are out there all the time!

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Originally Posted by Fox

Nice of you to keep families from hunting together on weekends, most don't have the time to take holidays to hunt or pull their kids out of school but I am glad you are happy.

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Give me a break how exactly did I do that? Sunday hunting was proposed to local council and our group put a proposal to keep things as is so we could keep out late season. Now families and kids can enjoy two more Saturdays chasing geese in the spring.

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Originally Posted by Dythbringer

Sunday gun hunting opens up opportunity for multi-species hunting in the fall. Opposing it because you want to keep a single species hunt is selfish.

Yes, the opposition could have showed up but they didn't have to because they had hunters doing their work for them. Most people who have regular jobs only have an opportunity to hunt on the weekends. Limiting their gun hunting opportunities to simply Saturday automatically halves their field time which will decrease success. Let's not forget Jewish hunters who are supposed to observe Saturdays as their religious day. With no Sunday gun hunting, they are perhaps the most limited.

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What species would you be hunting on Sunday with a gun that if not there would cut your opportunities in half? Have you looked at a Sunday hunting map lately?? We are only looking for a little piece of the pie in our part of the province, would hardly call that selfish.

I have one of those "regular jobs' and can only get out one day on the weekend, the late goose season extends my season and gives me even more opportunities.

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Originally Posted by Dythbringer

Sunday gun hunting opens up opportunity for multi-species hunting in the fall. Opposing it because you want to keep a single species hunt is selfish.

Yes, the opposition could have showed up but they didn't have to because they had hunters doing their work for them. Most people who have regular jobs only have an opportunity to hunt on the weekends. Limiting their gun hunting opportunities to simply Saturday automatically halves their field time which will decrease success. Let's not forget Jewish hunters who are supposed to observe Saturdays as their religious day. With no Sunday gun hunting, they are perhaps the most limited.

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Your argument held water when south west Ontario was a no Sunday hunt block. Now a days with most of it opened up and the late goose option diminishing asking those who partake in the hunt to give it up is being selfish. The hunting season is ripe with specialty hunts so everybody can enjoy their preferred hunt.

I would have fought to keep it. Dont understand why they can't take those days off the end of the season. There's a million geese around with liberal limits and no possession. This was a great time to pile em up. This totally sucks! Anyone who fought to keep this season is not selfish.

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Originally Posted by Bandwagon

What species would you be hunting on Sunday with a gun that if not there would cut your opportunities in half? Have you looked at a Sunday hunting map lately?? We are only looking for a little piece of the pie in our part of the province, would hardly call that selfish.

I have one of those "regular jobs' and can only get out one day on the weekend, the late goose season extends my season and gives me even more opportunities.

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Any species I want. What you are saying is that the late goose season which you enjoy is more important than allowing hunters who hunt other species to enjoy gun hunting on both Saturday and Sunday. I have looked at a Sunday hunting map. Your selfish behaviour isn't enjoying an area which has no Sunday gun hunting, your selfish behaviour is going to your local council, lobbying the council to keep Sunday gun hunting out of your area and shutting down other species hunters from gun hunting on Sundays because you wanted to keep a late season open for one species. You helped deny more hunting opportunities to hunters as a group because you and your friends wanted to keep the late goose season. I call that selfish. It is no different than archery hunters wanting no gun hunting because they hunt on Sundays and don't want small game hunters with firearms walking around the woods.

You have one of those regular jobs which allows you to get out one day per weekend. So do I. I also live in an area which has no Sunday gun hunting same as you. While I enjoy the late goose season, I would enjoy the opportunity to hunt coyotes, grouse, pheasants, rabbits, turkeys, deer, ducks, geese, squirrels, doves, etc with a firearm on a Sunday in the fall (or in the case of coyotes all year round) a lot more.

But let's go one step further and break it down with math, you have a regular job which allows you one day a weekend to get out. For this example, I am only going to use the 2017-18 Southern Ontario goose hunting season. For areas which allow Sunday gun hunting, the season is Sept 23-Dec 27. That is 14 weekends which a goose hunter has the opportunity to hunt on a weekend or 28 opportunity-days for hunting. For areas which do not allow Sunday gun hunting, the season is Sept 23-Jan 6 and then Feb 24-Mar 3. This time period has 18 weekends to hunt but limits goose hunting to 1 day so that is 18 opportunity-days which a goose hunter can gun hunt on the weekend. So by not supporting gun hunting on Sundays, we are disadvantaged by 10 opportunity-days for geese. Couple that with the fact in the fall, we aren't limited to just geese on Sundays in the fall unlike the late goose season, I don't understand why you would think that you have more opportunities in a late goose season versus Sunday gun hunting in the fall.

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

Your argument held water when south west Ontario was a no Sunday hunt block. Now a days with most of it opened up and the late goose option diminishing asking those who partake in the hunt to give it up is being selfish. The hunting season is ripe with specialty hunts so everybody can enjoy their preferred hunt.

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Opening hunting opportunities for all hunters is way more important than keeping a late season goose hunt.