MNR sure messed up the moose hunt

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

I got my tag my first year applying and then you have to do 3 practice shot if you can't hit the target you don't get your tag. It use to also be once your name was drawn you were suppose to wait for 5 years.

But yes I have know people who never got a tag their whole hunting life.

Have you put your name in at all?

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Yes I have,never got drawn , my brother 15 years,cousin 24 years, other cousin 13, 30 and 31 years .Neighbour and hunting partner 34 years with out getting tags. If you miss one year you have to start over. A select few get drowned every year or every other year.

For those who have adult cow tags and are worried about orphaning the calves, why not go up when the calf hunt is open so you may kill (harvest) both?

Interesting I just read the NB regs and you are only out for 1 year if you were successful, it use to be 5 when I lived there. I noticed you still have to be 18 to hunt Moose and I think it's the same for deer and bear isn't it.

A lot of people also don't know that if you were born in NB but no longer live there but you own land you can hunt as a resident. To bad I was born in NS>

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Originally Posted by Greenhorn

Yes I have,never got drawn , my brother 15 years,cousin 24 years, other cousin 13, 30 and 31 years .Neighbour and hunting partner 34 years with out getting tags. If you miss one year you have to start over. A select few get drowned every year or every other year.

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Originally Posted by redd foxx

For those who have adult cow tags and are worried about orphaning the calves, why not go up when the calf hunt is open so you may kill (harvest) both?

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the 2 weeks that are open for calf hunting will be a war zone in my area, I assume a lot of hunters will travel up here as usuall, I am sure those 2 weeks will be the busiest weeks of the hunt.

I think the majority of people will come those 2 weeks, not because of orphaning a calf but because a camp of 6 guys hunting not in the 2 week calf hunt, has one adult tag, they fill the tag first day, hunt over.

Anybody that shoots a cow with calves during the open adult only, should be ashamed, you know its wrong and you know what's going to happen to the calf, even though its legal doesn't make it right, and people doing this will b!tch the most in ten years why there less tags then now,

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Originally Posted by Matt86

Anybody that shoots a cow with calves during the open adult only, should be ashamed, you know its wrong and you know what's going to happen to the calf, even though its legal doesn't make it right, and people doing this will b!tch the most in ten years why there less tags then now,

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i agree. I couldn't shoot a cow with calves. I have taken a cow with 2 calves but shot them too.

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Originally Posted by Matt86

Anybody that shoots a cow with calves during the open adult only, should be ashamed, you know its wrong and you know what's going to happen to the calf, even though its legal doesn't make it right, and people doing this will b!tch the most in ten years why there less tags then now,

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Here's another one on this forum... Telling law abiding hunters they are wrong, your way must be the only way. Keep your judgement to yourself. If people are following the rules you have no right to look down on them...

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Originally Posted by JeffBondar

Here's another one on this forum... Telling law abiding hunters they are wrong, your way must be the only way. Keep your judgement to yourself. If people are following the rules you have no right to look down on them...

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Everybody is entitled to their opinion,right?

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Originally Posted by Matt86

Anybody that shoots a cow with calves during the open adult only, should be ashamed, you know its wrong and you know what's going to happen to the calf, even though its legal doesn't make it right, and people doing this will b!tch the most in ten years why there less tags then now,

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I agree and that's why I started this thread, everyone knows what will happen to the calf, so make it that you can take the calf with an adult tag, at least the ethical hunters will take the calf and leave the cow, i have always passed on calves, and cows with calves but i can guarantee you that the guy that has been going hunting for 10 years and never shot a moose or maybe even seen one gets that chance at a cow and more than half of the hunters out there will take that cow regardless of it having a calf or not. the way the MNR has revamped the seasons will kill more calves than leaving the calf hunt alone.

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

Everybody is entitled to their opinion,right?

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Everybody is entitled to hunt in their own fashion, whatever they like, providing they are going it legally, it is not for me or you or anyone else to lay judgment. Laying a guilt trip on legal hunters, telling them they should be ashamed... well I've heard words like that before... coming from anti's......