Second chance Draw for Moose

[trimmer21]

Another reason not to allow second round tags to remain unclaimed until the end of the season - the temptation to use them after the fact. Don't do it!! Boneheads!!

https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/h...nces-1.7020545

Bingo!! This forum needs a "like" button.

[Sam Menard]

Another reason not to allow second round tags to remain unclaimed until the end of the season - the temptation to use them after the fact. Don't do it!! Boneheads!!

https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/h...nces-1.7020545

It’s not clear whether the hunter forgot to buy his tag or only planned to buy it after the fact. Regardless, it’s a good reason to prohibit tag sales after the season starts!

[Ahuntr300]

It’s not clear whether the hunter forgot to buy his tag or only planned to buy it after the fact. Regardless, it’s a good reason to prohibit tag sales after the season starts!

LOL; Forgot to buy it? Come on Sam, you cant be serious, no one is that forgetful! Who in their right mind would forget to buy their tag, go moose hunting, and then suddenly remember after they shot the animal LOL? No reasonable person would believe such a story.

[Sam Menard]

LOL; Forgot to buy it? Come on Sam, you cant be serious, no one is that forgetful! Who in their right mind would forget to buy their tag, go moose hunting, and then suddenly remember after they shot the animal LOL? No reasonable person would believe such a story.

Well there were people that forgot to buy their licences when the new system came out… they thought they paid when they applied. I’m not making excuses for them, just not sure what happened.

[Ralphy]

Maybe their group shot 2 cows while hunting apart at the same time. A good possibility that has happened before. Also the first year of the new system one member of our group bought the 15$ fee and did not realize he had to buy the 35$ lic. He never got checked out by the MNR that year luckly. He realized the next year when he drew an adult tag.

[Ralphy]

This would have never happened in the old system.If the MNR would have tightened up the tag transfers in the old system like the new system there would have been no unclaimed tags. I think the MNR bent to the hunters in the southern units where in some WMU,s getting a tag was every 15,20 to 25 years and is still the same. Applying individually and not in groups every hunter would have been on level ground .

[Matt86]

This would have never happened in the old system.If the MNR would have tightened up the tag transfers in the old system like the new system there would have been no unclaimed tags. I think the MNR bent to the hunters in the southern units where in some WMU,s getting a tag was every 15,20 to 25 years and is still the same. Applying individually and not in groups every hunter would have been on level ground .

But you will never know how many tags didnt gets used, Cause they defiantly got drawn and someone said oh I cant go oh well was 50 bucks
I know my friend drew a bow tag with the old system but never went hunting, And I have a uncle that his wifes mom died day before leaving and he didnt go, There was lots of this I'm sure in other gangs,
It is a easy fix to put a dead line in place for the second draw and then sell over the counter, or even after the first draw you sell tags over the counter. Just needs to happen is all

[Ralphy]

Matt86 things are going to come up in a persons life and plans might get changed but a friend or family member passing away is probably a good enough reason to change plans. I don’t think you can say how many tags did or did not get used. Your just guessing. Plans will get changed for one reason or another for a person weather it’s the new or old system

[Matt86]

Matt86 things are going to come up in a persons life and plans might get changed but a friend or family member passing away is probably a good enough reason to change plans. I don’t think you can say how many tags did or did not get used. Your just guessing. Plans will get changed for one reason or another for a person weather it’s the new or old system

I get that but if you think people getting tags and not going hunting is new your wrong, yes there is lots left over but take away the calf tags, take away all the tags in the wmu 1 and 16s and then see.
Im not arguing that tags not being claimed is a issue, I wish we had 2 or 3 bull tags instead of 1. Its a easy fix it is just a matter if the government dose it or not. This same system is in many places and tags are over the counter after the draw.
And if you look into other provinces I will take ours over New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. When you start hunting all over and seeing how things are ran you get a better picture of it.