Always be polite. Also be definite in your answers. It's ok to take a minute and collect your thoughts. If you sound unsure of yourself, or that you may not exactly know the rules, it will go worse for you.
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Always be polite. Also be definite in your answers. It's ok to take a minute and collect your thoughts. If you sound unsure of yourself, or that you may not exactly know the rules, it will go worse for you.
In possession of lead shot while in pursue of migratory birds. Had the dead bird in the box been a woodcock this charge might not have been laid.
Then, having a firearm of greater energy than the low power 22 caliber (now it's a firearm with greater muzzle energy than 400 ft-lbs), when without a licence, in an open season of big game.
Failure to wear blaze orange while hunting small game, in an open season for big game season.
Remember a CO does not have to catch you red hand, he only has to suspect you are about to do something illegal. With a 30-30 on board in an area where moose are known to be present, and not having a licence could also result in a charge for poaching moose.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary... did they have the target they were using to sight-in the rifle?
You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut
You're a bit late to the partyQuote:
Originally Posted by Gun Nut
Wrong on all counts,Gun Nut. You need to read all the posts from the beginning. You also need to keep in mind that several posters are either active or recently retired LEO's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gun Nut
September 1, 1987 hunter orange became mandatory for deer, moose and bear gun hunters in OntarioQuote:
Originally Posted by GW11
BINGO! And therein lies the biggest issue I have with CO's. They will go out of their way to trick you into saying something that they can then prod more on. It's like they operate under the premise that the person is hiding something and by gosh we're going to find out what? The less said to them the better for sure!Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
Good example Gw.
Thanks for sharing.
Since most poachers don't wear tee shirts that read " HEY I'M A POACHER" it takes some investigation to determine either way. Let them do their job be polite. They are not out too get you. Just enforce the rules and regulations we all agree to abide by when we purchase our licences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushmoose
Definitely agree with that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushmoose
Another example from about 5 years ago...
My Dad, brother and I were hunting some public land for the ML season, which falls around the 1st week of December here. My brother was only going to hunt 2 or 3 days so if we got a deer within those first couple of days we were going to use his tag first. As it turned out, I shot a buck in the first 15 minutes of opening morning. We made the collective decision to tag the deer with my brother's tag, hang it in a tree overnight and bring it home the next day. The main reason being that we all came in an SUV and didn't really need to stuff the three of us, all our gear and the deer in it when we could bring a trailer in with us the next morning.
The next afternoon on our way back home we were pulled over by an unmarked truck about 10 minutes from home. We had already driven at least 30 minutes from the land we were hunting. The CO said he saw the deer in the trailer and "had to stop us" as part of his duty, but I'm not so sure. My feeling is that someone saw the deer and some blaze orange in the SUV and called the TIPS line on us thinking that there wasn't a firearms deer season in December. Our route home took us through a couple of small villages so it's entirely possible. There's a tip - if you don't want to be pulled over when driving to and from your hunting spots, lose the blaze orange. Just make sure you're no longer "hunting".
Anyway, this fellow DID NOT like the fact that we shot the deer the day before and were bringing it home that day. I think (and I can understand his position) that he had convinced himself that Dad or I had shot the deer the day before, hung it up without a tag and brought my brother with us the next day to tag it and bring it home. He asked each of us in 3 or 4 different ways - "So, who shot the deer?" "When did you say it was shot?" "How many of you were hunting yesterday?" "Sorry, you say you shot the deer, but it's his tag, have I got this right?". Then he would repeat all those questions with the next guy but in a slightly different way.
Then he was back and forth from the trailer, sticking a thermometer in the deer I think, then returned to the window for a few more questions. He was being thorough, but definitely trying to make one of us slip up with our answers. We weren't doing anything wrong, he just didn't couldn't wrap his head around why we would shoot the deer one day and bring it out another.
Eventually the mood relaxed and it ended with some small talk about deer numbers and he told us that additional tag cuts would be coming soon, which ended up being true. All in all not a very comfortable experience. We definitely felt like we were treated a little like poachers first, outdoorsmen second, but as said above, they have to find a way to do their job.
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Originally Posted by GW11
See your painting them in a negative light. We all whine that they are not doing enough to catch poachers yet when the investigate something we are all to ready to jump on them for being thorough. They were just making sure everything was legit. They weren't trying to make you slip up that can only happen if you weren't forthright right?