I thought that back in the 60's in Ontario we were not allowed to hunt from an elevated platform .
I may be wrong, but that's what I remember.
But that was a long time ago and my memory is not that great any more.
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I thought that back in the 60's in Ontario we were not allowed to hunt from an elevated platform .
I may be wrong, but that's what I remember.
But that was a long time ago and my memory is not that great any more.
I started hunting for deer in Michigan in 1990 and it was legal to hunt from a tree stand or raise platform long before that. I used bow ,shotgun and ML. Tags were real cheap 15 bucks for Non residence and unlimited. Residence paid $4.00 or $5.00 /tag Lol, I killed on average 6 deer a year for 8 years,when I decided to slack off. Two of the tags were for bucks,although they cost $35.00. Each. Thoughts were the days.
Back in the 60's their were very few bow hunters and every body hunted from the ground. I started hunting in 64 but use to climb trees in the late 60's,after realizing you had a better view from a tree.
This law to firearm hunt from an elevated stand did not take effect until the fall hunt of 1998 before that it was illegal to be off the groundQuote:
Originally Posted by Greenhorn
Did you ever hunt in Michigan??? I spent pracially three months very year sitting in a tree stand and was NEVER sited for hunting illegally. I saw lots of DNR agents driving by. I would think,if I was breaking the law they would have a least give me a warning, more likely a ticket.
From what I can gather it was not legal to hunt from an elevated platform with a bow until 1975 and with a gun until 1998. Read this from a couple of different sources.
Just because you did something illegal for years doesn't make it legal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenhorn
I have a cousin that lives in Michigan. Both he and his brotherinlaw are hunting nuts (b-I-l is also a crown attorney). They were both very aware of this law and that it changed.
Use your google-fu if you doubt it. It appears the change from illegal to legal occurred in 1998.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=era...hanged&f=false
As a matter of fact I spent a lot of time there as my mother was born and raised there and my grandparents and uncles and cousins lived there. I hunted deer for well over 30 yrs in Michigan with bow, muzzleloader, shotgun and rifle. Our family owned our own hunting property and I shot my first deer well before I was ten yrs old. If you were hunting from an elevated stand prior to 1998 with a firearm in Michigan then YOU were breaking the law period! Don't care how many dnr officers you seen while doing this you were still wrong.
No to be too facetious; but with the urban sprawl along some of the boundary roads in most rural areas, it is almost time that they make it illegal, when hunting with a rifle, NOT to be in a treestand. (elevated).
... and I would agree - unfortunately!Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
way too many don't care about a save backstop and that's what you end up getting as so often: just another rule. at least I would hope that at the same time, it would come with a significantly extended rifle season (not ML, slug, etc.)