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I suppose I should post this in Sports and Hunting but that forum is mostly for arguments about U'S college football. Alot of Sask. ranchers on here hunt so here's something Ty and Emily learned when they got stopped by CO's the other day. Alot of their friends come hunt with us-they don't have any hunting stuff so they use ours. We always keep our tags in a jacket or coveralls that we always wear-that way we always have them with us. Their friends can't do this because all the hunting clothes stay at our place-they just leave their licence and tags in the truck glove box so they have them when the come out. It was just Ty and Emily when they got stopped so the buddy's tag in the glove box got confiscated. The officers were good about it-no fines or anything but I never knew that was a problem-USING someone elses tag I sure can see being taboo. When the kids were littler I used to carry all the tags with me so they didn't misplace them. Just thought I'd pass this on-might save some conflict for somebody.
 
I live in an area where most everyone hunt's pretty legal so we don't have any co's hanging around. A little west of here they congregate more. There are more hunters and deer and hence problems.We had a roadhunter problem 15 years ago but a couple landowners who are pretty serious about people knowing who's land they are shooting over pressed charges on a few and verbally warn others has pretty much ended that practice.Of course then they bench because they have to many deer raiseing hell on their crops.
 
Logging,guiding, hunting and fishing are huge industries up here and our town is center of it all so we have lots of CO's. I don't have a problem with them doing their jobs at all. Canadian resident week is this one and there are some problems that come with that so they were out in full force.
 
I was seriously ticked off this fall in our hunt when on the evening of the first day of hunt, the next door neighbour decided that it would be a good time to mark the boundary between our properties. A very stupid person, she was, to do that during hunt. She's walking withing 150 yards of where I am sitting on my property. Town folks who moved into the country.

Then the next morning while we were sitting in and around our own woodlot waiting for action, there came a party of hunters in off the sideroad to drive our block. No one had asked permission.

So I went gunning across in my pickup to see who it was just as they were starting into our bush. They got a very succinct message. And left.

The thing of it all was that the gang was under the "guidance' of a retired CO who lives only a few miles away. He's a good guy and all and we visit from time to time, but I don't care who you are, you better come see me before you hunt on my land. He called that evening to apologize.

So don't take anything for granted, just because you know somebody doesn't mean you are free to run across their land with a gun on your arm, CO or otherwise.
 
Here it is illeagal to shoot an animal to fill someone else's tag.
Now if the tag was just in the truck and not filled out, I do not see what the trouble is.
If the CO took it because the tag's owner was not there, that is completely stupid.

We have gotten into some arguements with our FWP.
We talked to our hunters and told everybody to shoot does only. I counted over 100 does and fawns one year. I was with some of our hunters another year and we lost count at over 100 does and fawns just to the south of us in a huge herd.
warden told hubby that we could not regulate what the hunters shot.
Rather funny this year they closed the doe hunting. Not enough does with fawns.
Take your pick on cause.
disease
predators
horn hunting
all of the above

Son was out this morning and jumped a small herd of 16. Three of them were bucks.
 

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