Man shoots two Moose from side of HWY 17.

[biggamer]

It’s only tip of the iceberg and a small glimpse into how the “keepers of the earth” exercise harvest rights. Happens all over northern Ontario with regularity and witnessed it many times over my years in the north.

It’s a sad state of affairs…all the moose management objectives and controls on licensed hunters is useless if they don’t get this garbage under wraps.

[Fisherman]

It’s only tip of the iceberg and a small glimpse into how the “keepers of the earth” exercise harvest rights. Happens all over northern Ontario with regularity and witnessed it many times over my years in the north.

It’s a sad state of affairs…all the moose management objectives and controls on licensed hunters is useless if they don’t get this garbage under wraps.

Nailed it, used to see them night hunting in MB with spotlights and leave the dead deer for the crows and coyotes.

[hockeymjt]

I live in northern bruce, and they will actually pull deer out of the bush and gut them on the side of hwy 6, they are hunting on res property, but they gut right on the side of the highway, I stopped one day and asked, 1) why is it they shoot fawns, answer so does can continue to reproduce, 2) why gut on the side of highway,, too many yotes and maybe some will get hit by car coming to guts.

insane if you ask me

[Tigboy 304]

No different in the Quinte area. Quite a few deer are jack lighted in PEC by the local natives and not to mention the tons of walleye that are gill netted for Commercial sale. I didn't know they had spot lights and nylon gill nets 200 years ago that's some tradition if you ask me.

[impact]

And yet the gatekeepers will be keeping a close eye on the licensed hunters this coming week. Making sure that there are no more than 3 shell capacity in a shotgun designed for 8, that the firearm is encased exactly between 1/2 hour after sunset and 1/2 hour before sunrise, that the cheap printed piece of paper is properly affixed to the deer, that the ball cap is fully blaze orange with no camo on it and so on and so on........

Rules for me and rules for thee.
That is the difference between a sovereign nation and slaves to a corporation.

[diverduck]

While I think that it’s ridiculous what goes on out there in the name of “harvesting” on occasion, and this being a blatant example of wrongdoing by shooting moose from a highway, no matter where it is. Lets not kid ourselves fellas, if the majority of us wanted to poach or jacklight, or not tag animals and harvest extra, the fact is we could do it and 90 percent of us would get away with it. Enforcement is inadequate in Ontario and the only thing keeping us honest is the individual ethics of the hunter, and a very little bit of it is the CO’s as they don’t have the resources to police every hunter. My last field check other than ice fishing was probably 8 years ago. We’ve never been checked dragging an animal out, and the only time we’ve had tags checked was when they where hanging on a meat pole in a long established hunt camp that of course the CO’s where aware of. In reality, you are your own conservation officer. The Ontario CO’s could in no manner police us all, they do not have the resources to do so.

[270 WBY]

It’s only tip of the iceberg and a small glimpse into how the “keepers of the earth” exercise harvest rights. Happens all over northern Ontario with regularity and witnessed it many times over my years in the north.

It’s a sad state of affairs…all the moose management objectives and controls on licensed hunters is useless if they don’t get this garbage under wraps.

Well said!!!!

[DanO]

FN or not there are some safety concerns that need to be addressed by the courts! What a can of worms!

[gbk]

FN or not there are some safety concerns that need to be addressed by the courts! What a can of worms!

You are 100 % right- safety is #1.

Hovewer,another shooting the exact same way resulted in a dead man few years back......and what happened as a result of that shooting....?

[Sam Menard]

Did you know that, years ago, when the MNR was exploring whether to change the law with respect to loaded firearms and discharging from road allowances that many hunters were against it?