Looking for Info

[Sam Menard]

As a guy living in Northern Ontario, I’m finding this situation bizarre. I can understand people posting private land, but the notion of erecting signs on Crow land indicating an intent to hunt it at some point in the future is weird. As much as I would like to hunt areas of Crown land exclusively, it’s first come - first served. There’s a silent understanding up north that a hunter will give another hunter a wide berth, but don’t hoard an area and take obvious measures to keep people out. If you act like a dink, someone will call you on it.

[greatwhite]

I realize it is first come first serve, but if a group of people are hunting an area would you not stay away? How would you feel If I happened upon your spot and you came there Monday morning only to find me sitting in you stand and my buddy sitting in one of your friends stand.?

In NB it was common to post where you were hunting on crown and I think some do that for Moose in Quebec as well. I would treat it as moving along to find myself another area where there are no hunters. There is a lot of crown land. Some people just see moving into where other people are as a free ride.

Ahh nice somebody baited everything for me.

As a guy living in Northern Ontario, I’m finding this situation bizarre. I can understand people posting private land, but the notion of erecting signs on Crow land indicating an intent to hunt it at some point in the future is weird. As much as I would like to hunt areas of Crown land exclusively, it’s first come - first served. There’s a silent understanding up north that a hunter will give another hunter a wide berth, but don’t hoard an area and take obvious measures to keep people out. If you act like a dink, someone will call you on it.

[greatwhite]

I guess the days of respecting where someone else is hunting has gone away. Which is why I am keeping these locations of unknown crown land secret.
At some point I might find someone deserving to know where they are.

[MikePal]

I guess the days of respecting where someone else is hunting has gone away. Which is why I am keeping these locations of unknown crown land secret.
At some point I might find someone deserving to know where they are.

Maybe when you go out one day you'll find some guys sitting in yours and your lads new stands. It'll be hard, but you'll just have to keep walking Haah..

[Bowjob]

There's a difference between showing up and walking through guys who are already there hunting

and showing up to a spot thats posted as another person's spot when its crown land and there's no one there at the moment

Thats how I see it anyways.


Only thing youre teaching new hunters is thats the normal and they should do the same to someone who hunts in "their" spot when they find one.

Again just my 2 cents tho. Thank God I have private land to hunt on.

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk

[greatwhite]

It can happen, I would move on. That's why we plan to begin scouting out these new grounds we found as well, so that we have back up plans.

I like to think that most hunters are respectable and if they see someone hunting a specific area they will move along. Has worked most of my life.

They group I hunted with for more then 10 years, I was invited into the group because I asked if they minded if I used their stands the second week when they were done.
They said nobody had ever asked before, so because I was very friendly they asked if I wanted to join their group. They were all French and I was the only English guy.
They treated me very well, I didn't have much in the way of gear back then and didn't have much money. They all owned construction companies. They helped me build a blind and
let me use their ATV's. It was fun being with them. Several of them have now stopped hunting now they were quite a bit older then me.

Occasionally I still run into some of them. Really miss hunting with them.

I generally find that if I treat others nicely I get treated nicely.

Been working for over 30 years.

Maybe when you go out one day you'll find some guys sitting in yours and your lads new stands. It'll be hard, but you'll just have to keep walking Haah..

[greatwhite]

I will give a real good example of someone being considerate of hunters.

I was out hunting grouse where my son set up to Turkey hunt last year. I did get a grouse.
I was heading out down the path towards my truck and another truck came down the road.

A young man was driving the truck, he asked if I was hunting or if he could run his dog. I told him he didn't have to ask as this is crown and he didn't need my permission.
He said just don't want to interfere with someone hunting.

He then asked whether or not I knew if someone was going to deer hunt the area. Again I said you don't need to ask it's crown ( I was testing him).

He said the same thing as I have been saying here. He didn't want to interfere if there was active hunters in the area. I told him to the best of my knowledge which sections did not have active hunters.

A respectable hunter.

[SongDog]

So this is for the rifle hunt for 1 week? Next week?

Or they are claiming that spot til Jan 1st? How many acres are we talking here?

All I know is I wouldn't be happy if I was scouting all summer/fall long and suddenly you see signs put up in the last week of October of someone "claiming" a section of public land for themselves.

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk

[trimmer21]

Probably guys who have been there for a long time and don't want anyone in there. Its most likely not their land if there are no trespassing signs on it. As a guy said above it'll prob be better to move on and look for another spot. It's not worth the time or arguments with guys like that. They think because they've been hunting there for so long its their forest which is not true at all. If you didn't buy the land or lease it youre not entitled to say who can hunt on it.

If you do end up going in there and they give you problems just call a CO. Its not worth the BS tho so I would move on.

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk

Posting land that doesn't belong to you can cause all kinds of issues besides being plain dumb and ignorant. "Public mischief" or "creating a common nuisance" seems petty,but,can really come back to bite one on the arse.

[greatwhite]

I think the signs have been there awhile. I know where there are a few signs like that from another group.

I just don't see anything wrong with it. Should we just jump in front of each other and say screw you I'm hunting here.

I should start grabbing a whole bunch of spots. Imagine the war and fighting this will cause.

I guessing many people don't realize it but there are thousand and thousands of ac to hunt around here. Most in reality don't want to put any real effort.

So this is for the rifle hunt for 1 week? Next week?

Or they are claiming that spot til Jan 1st? How many acres are we talking here?

All I know is I wouldn't be happy if I was scouting all summer/fall long and suddenly you see signs put up in the last week of October of someone "claiming" a section of public land for themselves.

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk