Late goose season question

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Originally Posted by kk1

Seriously! Sunday gun hunting was open this past fall. So in theory the geese could suffer because of Sunday gun hunting. Due to overpopulation in our area. There will be that many more geese contaminating our parks and rivers. Have to see what happens I guess. There has to be a better solution. Then again we live in Ontario where there isn't a whole lot of common sense anyway.

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So knock them down in the fall versus the winter.

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Originally Posted by Dythbringer

So knock them down in the fall versus the winter.

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Your obiously not a bird hunter. Completely different temperment in birds in the winter season versus the fall.

Sunday Gun Hunting, I am neither for nor against, myself and most of my friends , do not hunt on Sundays, if we want to shoot we head to the club and shoot skeet, trap, sporting clays' or 5 stand, we practice so when it comes to actual hunting , we seldom miss.
, and we enjoy the day and the camaraderie

Many years ago before Sunday Hunting ever came about, we chased coyotes behind our hounds through out the week days and many of the farmers/land owners asked us not to hunt on Saturdays as their kids where about, riding horses, tobogganing playing hockey on the ponds and generally being on or about their land.
Same was done hunting jack rabbits, as some had their own families hunting jacks on Saturdays.
We could understand this and we complied with their requests.

Now that Sunday Hunting has come into effect, we still can see where a lot of land owners do not want people on their land on Sundays as they want to enjoy the peace and quiet with their families.

Sunday Gun Hunting, is an issue that can be very contentious in more ways than one as we have seen here by the previous posts in this thread , as the saying goes,
" You can please some of the people some of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time"
Or "Win some lose some "

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Originally Posted by Dythbringer

Well if Sunday is your primary hunting day, one would figure that the late season for geese doesn't do you any good because you can't hunt geese on a Sunday during that time.

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As I said its my primary day. Time for which I don't have to alter my work schedule to go hunt. The late season does me good as other hunting seasons are closed for the most part and I can alter my days to hunt the late season. Which gives me more days a field. As I said it doesn't have to be a all or nothing deal don't be so greedy.

Sunday hunting for us when I was growing up allowed my dad and I to actually get out and go hunting, without that it was 1 week a year and the odd Saturday. The majority of the population works during the week and the majority of kids are in school, it is really hard to go hunting very often when you only have 1 day out of 7 to do it.

We would go out to a family dinner on the farm, some of my siblings would stay with my grandparents and dad and I would head out to the bush for a quick groundhog or rabbit hunt, made it possible.

With my family now, my wife works some weekends, only 1 day a week on weekends she is off essentially means I would not be able to hunt at all, sell all the gear, not worth it to get a few days in a year. At least with Sunday gun hunting we as a family can decide what timing works best for us rather than a ban on hunting for a day for absolutely no reason.

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Originally Posted by kk1

Your obiously not a bird hunter. Completely different temperment in birds in the winter season versus the fall.

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Really? Perhaps you should look at my post history in the waterfowl section and have a post count above 50 before you make an asinine comment on my waterfowling experience.

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

As I said its my primary day. Time for which I don't have to alter my work schedule to go hunt. The late season does me good as other hunting seasons are closed for the most part and I can alter my days to hunt the late season. Which gives me more days a field. As I said it doesn't have to be a all or nothing deal don't be so greedy.

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I really must alter my definition of greedy if you define it as trying to open up hunting opportunities for everyone.

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Originally Posted by Dythbringer

I really must alter my definition of greedy if you define it as trying to open up hunting opportunities for everyone.

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Yes you do. There is all ready hunting on Sunday in a number of areas, so no you are not opening up any thing. If someone wants to hunt on sunday they already have access to it.
Fighting to maintain hunting opportunities now is the same argument when there was no Sunday hunting options.

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Originally Posted by Dythbringer

Really? Perhaps you should look at my post history in the waterfowl section and have a post count above 50 before you make an asinine comment on my waterfowling experience.

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I really couldn't care a less about your post history. But if your proud of how many you have then I will congratulate you.

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

Yes you do. There is all ready hunting on Sunday in a number of areas, so no you are not opening up any thing. If someone wants to hunt on sunday they already have access to it.
Fighting to maintain hunting opportunities now is the same argument when there was no Sunday hunting options.

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Not really.....there was no Sunday hunting down in the Southwest. Passing Sunday hunting opened up a ton of opportunities for all hunters, not just waterfowlers. Waterfowlers also benefit by being able to hunt Sundays. Getting rid of or resisting Sunday hunting just so a few guys can hunt late season geese is asinine !