Very good and very sensible.....
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my comments have no direct tie to the article...just a generalization
if you read the letter of the law vs the CO answer in OOD ... the CO answer in fact contradicts the law... as it states one may not even "lay in wait" of an animal if the result is the animal being killed...
Bottom line.... take your kids hunting with you, enjoy them while they are young, just don't let them participate in the hunt until you have to recover your game.....
if they are lying in wait with someone who is hunting and as a result the animal is killed ... then they are hunting - BY DEFINTION of the laws. it does not say they have to be involved in causing the death of animal... sittin there with dad.... dad is hunting...result is dad shoots a deer - then they were ,by definition, hunting....
regardless i'm not here to dispute minute interpretations of the law - as I do not agree with kids not being allowed to hunt or accompany adults while hunting. after all I'm chairman of our Delta Waterfowl chapter and our main goal is youth movement in hunting populous.
take your kids hunting...if you don't hunt - send them with someone who does.
Believe that if you want but it is wrong.
The word "result" indicates a cause and effect relationship.
Lying in wait beside your dad, mother, brother, uncle or pet sasquatch will not cause your dad.....or pet sasquatch to kill game. The observer being there did not result in game being killed.
Part D of that reg was put in place to relieve bird watchers and photographers among others from the classification of hunting...the part about unless it results in killing of game is to prevent their actions from causing death...such as chasing deer to exhaustion or to a highway collision etc.
I agree...and do so legally with no fear of wrongdoing
Lol Rick and FW wouldn't beating a horse be hunting ;)
I am surprised how often this gets hashed out, when a) its pretty clear….b) its been covered so many times…..c) and the MNR has addressed a number of times.
/sigh
Rumblum, I suppose if Im lying in wait as I do so very often as a professional photographer both for myself, as a freelancer ( various people, companies, magazines buy my images) And a WT trips over me and breaks its neck, yeah technically by the letter of the law some CO might say "your hunting".
As a contributor to Ontario Out of Doors where sometimes Im asked/sent to go to X with a writer and take the pics as they hunt…Or go get something myself.
I don't have my Turkey liscence…Ive gone on Turkey hunts for them.
This was one…Here you go MNR I and OOD are breaking the law, heres the proof….come charge me.
http://jbenphotography.ca/img/s9/v93/p1554298148-6.jpg
Was I hunting when I took this pic? Wearing my Orange? No, oops guess I and OOD are in trouble.
http://jbenphotography.ca/img/s11/v31/p100108072-6.jpg
The day I took this pic I was just coming out of my divorce and didn't have my liscence. Guess OOD and myself are in trouble, especially because this was an "assignment" where they asked me to travel to SW Ontario to get this cover shot
http://jbenphotography.ca/img/s2/v1/p334343025-6.jpg
The key operative words in the definition are anyone can go….they aren't hunting, (aiding) unless their actions result in game being Harassed, captured, injured, killed.
A child calling…yeah technically thats illegal. Their actions are resulting in the birds being shot. I know many are perfectly ok with (to each his own)..
I can't call worth a lick., Im horrible There are kids who are better callers (champions) than many adults. Anyone mind if I have a kid like that call while I unload shell after shell?
Unless game is injured, killed, harassed, captured as a result of a persons (non hunters) actions.
Its all good