Do you pursue a wounded animal even if it means trespassing?

[greatwhite]

You mean the Gun Club in Prescott?

Our local club has a big dinner in the spring and invites all land owners whose property they use to come for a free dinner. You should look into it, great opportunity to meet the neighbours etc.

[greatwhite]

Don 't get me wrong I don't trespass, I always ask permission to hunt. In fact I go as far as letting neighbors know I will be shooting depending on the situation. However if a deer was to cross the property line it would still depend on the situation. If the landowner was miles away and that deer was say 50 feet maybe 100 feet I might go get it, like I said depends on the situation at the time. I know around here where I live right now If you left a deer to spoil on a farm property because you couldn't get a hold of the person he would call you a dumb and say you shouldn't be allowed to even hunt.

So to blanket coat everything shows how far you are from reality, I think you need to clean the Liberal rose glasses. Not all situations are the same. Only a Liberal would believe that.

I am a Liberal who does not want to take on any liability with a stranger coming onto my land. Nothing to do with sharing ,maybe you are naïve.?

[MikePal]

You mean the Gun Club in Prescott?

Do you mean random users ? I made the assumption it was a local snowmobile club crossing your land...

Kemptville Snowmobile Klub uses a friend's back yard and treat him well for the usage.

[punkrockerpj]

It's an interesting topic. I've gotten permission from all my neighbors to retrieve game on their properties. But no one has ever asked me about retrieving game on our farms. I think everyone just assumes it's no big deal and does it anyways. I've actually found the pealed off backings from the old sticky deer tags on my property. But that's after shotgun week, when everyone is trespassing anyways

man aint that the truth eh.

[greatwhite]

Yeah just random users, not sure who I suspect people in my neighbourhood could be the guy that owns the fields behind me, don't know for sure. Most people around here know I don't care about much as long as you don't take my stuff or damage anything.

My property is only 3/4 ac they use it when they come up from the field behind my house to get onto the road.

If I make a fuss then others will to and it will all go down hill very fast around here.

Heck I drive my ATV across my other neighbours lawn if I need to. Lot's of people use to borrow my tools years ago, most have their own now. Still trying to find out who owns the sander not sure where that came from.

I'm lucky most of the people around here seem to think the same way.

Only complaint I have had is I asked permission to hunt a property from some old farmer near Embrun and never got the chance and when I ran into him in a store he remembered me an asked why I never came to hunt.

I always ask permission not only does that make good friends but maybe I might need to buy something from them. Like there is a guy down by the Winchester Bog he's a welder never know I might need a welder as I cannot weld worth a crap.

The Farmer I use to milk cows for my son works there now and I have access to all his land to cut dead trees on (Wish I wasn't getting so Lazy but did get 4 cords off it this fall and another 10 at another place). Always good to meet new people.

Do you mean random users ? I made the assumption it was a local snowmobile club crossing your land...

Kemptville Snowmobile Klub uses a friend's back yard and treat him well for the usage.

[greatwhite]

Yeah Mike I would be interested in the dinner, but probably won't be one this year.

[blasted_saber]

Hunters definitely need to use common sense. They should know who the neighbours are, how to contact them, and discuss what to do if a wounded animal ends up on their land. If the landowner won’t grant permission, then the hunter may have to take reasonable and practical steps to ensure wounded wildlife don’t wander onto the neighbour’s land. This might mean not hunting parts or portions of land (maintaining a reasonable distance from the property line), brushing shooting lanes so projectiles are not deflected, using a shooting rest or bipod, limiting shooting situations (standing broadside, < 100m).

The onus is on the hunter to ensure that an animal dies quickly and within a short distance from where hit. Knowing that your neighbour won’t let you retrieve game on his land but hunting anyway is risky. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do it, but you need to devote some time before hunting to come up with a plan on how not to waste game .

Great post

[LowbanksArcher]

Lots of bow hunters out there trespassing too

Oh i'm sure you're right. I've just never seen it myself, yet. But for the gun weeks in southern Ontario on the other hand, trespassing seems to be an annual tradition. I won't get into details. But both controlled weeks here led to confrontations this year, and some annoyed landowners. Hopefully next year this tradition ends. But we'll see

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[410001661]

I could post all kinds of trespasser pics - most of them are guys on quads but there is the odd clown on foot.

[Gun Nut]

If permission to retrieve an animal is denied by the landowner to you as well as an MNR Officer, and the animal is expired in sight, can the landowner not be charged with letting a game animal spoil? Just what I had read somewhere, not sure if it is at all true.
John

It was pointed out to me, that farmers can destroy wildlife that is doing crop damage, in some cases they have to consult the MNRF. If they for example kill migratory birds i.e. geese or ducks damaging their crop, they have an obligation to leave them right where they are dropped, there is to be any attempt to harvest them. I think the hope is the down birds so exposed, will act as a warning to other birds to stay away. Again there is no wastage in nature, they will eventually be clean up by other wildlife, or micro-organisms .

You don't stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut