Sunday gun hunting

[Jow]

i think you were reading his post count as his location. now hes in WMU 89 on lake erie lol ... honest mistake.

haha nice catch

[Rob Stewart]

OFAH got it reversed in on of my local townships where I hunt. I'm looking forward to this fall!

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[Jow]

OFAH got it reversed in on of my local townships where I hunt. I'm looking forward to this fall!

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Nice!!

[SK33T3R]

We just got it here in the City of Thorold.
You need to get it through your local politicians before the MNR will do absolutely anything.
Their involvement is to get a clerk to add your towns name to the list.
They're too busy figuring out licence fee hikes and revenue flow on dwindling populations. OOPS did I just say that!
My local conservation club approached city council with the recommendation to make a change to the current firearms bylaw to include Sunday hunting. They needed to realize that a vast number of other city's / towns have already gone through the process. Always nice to ask why you're prejudiced against because you live in your town? no one likes that word. especially politician's. Be careful because once the councillors begin debating the current bylaw they may decide to move some boundaries for "public safety" .
Getting Sunday hunting on a smaller area might not be considered a win. We actually lost a little land BUT it mattered not because there's a subdivision going in there right now. People from Toronto getting out of that nuthouse and screwing up the rest of Ontario.

[Bandwagon]

I'm thinking about trying to get the no Sunday gun hunting law reversed in my wmu. Would anyone on here that is in the know about a process like this care to chime in with examples of,who do I start with?, township? mnr ?

I thinks its worth a try

You might get push back from guys who waterfowl hunt in SW ontario, they particularly like the late goose season like I do. OFAH attempted to push through Sunday hunting however our group with the help of others was successful in keeping it out.

[SK33T3R]

You might get push back from guys who waterfowl hunt in SW ontario, they particularly like the late goose season like I do. OFAH attempted to push through Sunday hunting however our group with the help of others was successful in keeping it out.

you're right on that one. BUT every other non goose hunter. including duck hunters got more opportunities to chase stuff on the weekends when they were off.

We struggled with loosing the jan late season goose hunt but some years the weather screwed up that entire hunt anyway.

When we looked at all the opportunities for ALL the other hunter groups it was evident which way to go for us.

[Jow]

You might get push back from guys who waterfowl hunt in SW ontario, they particularly like the late goose season like I do. OFAH attempted to push through Sunday hunting however our group with the help of others was successful in keeping it out.

What is the concern that late season geese hunters have ? (not being smart I just would like to know)

[welsh]

They lose the late season hunt entirely if Sunday gun hunting is approved.

The goose season is open for a certain number of days. The late season hunt makes up the Sundays in WMUs where there is no Sunday hunt. So, as soon as Sunday hunting is allowed, the late season goes away.

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[Jow]

They lose the late season hunt entirely if Sunday gun hunting is approved.

The goose season is open for a certain number of days. The late season hunt makes up the Sundays in WMUs where there is no Sunday hunt. So, as soon as Sunday hunting is allowed, the late season goes away.

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ok good to know,thanks

[SK33T3R]

The way it works - this only applies to migratory birds covered federally by your duck stamp.

The North American Migratory Birds Act between Canada, US, and Mexico is an agreement between all three with limits on how many days of actual gunning can be applied.

I think the number is 90 days (searched but can't find it)
So we're allowed 90 days of open waterfowl season. In the old days we were open from say sept 25 till dec 20 ... all 90 days.
good for northern Ontario but not so good for southern Ontario because we had no Sunday hunting. So we lost one day every week.
Didn't seem to matter to the MNR back then. Then with the population explosion some brainiac figured out we could get in a January hunt for our local goose problems if we just took all those Sundays we lost and applied them to late season.
This didn't help the duck hunters - only goose hunters.
So goose hunters got in the entire 90 day allotment and every other hunter of every other species stayed at the status quo. 6 days per week.
Now that Sunday hunting has been granted then those guys will be able to hunt every day.

I sure don't want to lose the late season hunt for geese either BUT it's federal and it's north American.

But certain areas of ontario actually shut down for geese for a few weeks to let the northern migrating geese get through Ontario safely so that the Americans can bang'em up later. ??? (they don't want our softwood but they'll take our hydro and geese!) These lost days to let the migrating geese through are transfer to other goose hunting days to hopefully control our largely NON-migrating flying groundhog problem.

Anyway I hope I confused everyone this fine Saturday morning.