My 2 cents on the Junior Hunt.....

[Wild one]

they are hunting with there kid....shit fathers abandon kids..abuse them..there mom..steal there money from the piggy bank...

you really got to quantify what a shit father is...

Ok unethical poachers who use their children as a loophole to shoot a deer

[horshur]

Ok unethical poachers who use their children as a loophole to shoot a deer

Who are you?...vain guy who trophy hunts! The Bain of hunting

[Wild one]

Who are you?...vain guy who trophy hunts! The Bain of hunting

Nope not even close

I am actually getting to the point of asking myself why I bother giving a crap

[Gateholio]

simply put. if a tree falls in the forrest and nobody is there... does it still make a sound. I have hunted some pretty remote areas and some pretty heavy hunted areas in the last 15 years.... I have been stopped once by a CO. If you are relying on tickets in the bush...well to say it politely ... this isn't going to happen.

about 6 years ago I had a beer with a CO at a pub during hunting season and asked him about the conservation and youth season. He did say that they did a trial and put a decoy that moves in the bush during youth season and 4 point season. I wrote down the results as he was talking on my iPhone because I wanted to get them right....

In youth season, 34 people shot.

30 of those shots were done by dad or mom
15 shots were taken from inside a vehicle


In 4 point season they did the same thing.

over the weekend several cars stopped. ( he didn't have the number)

4 people shot from the truck
2 people shot from when it was not a 4 point but was only open


I asked him about youth season and he laughed.. He said he only gets paid to enforce the rules.



In regards to being part of the problem... Calling a CO and saying that the dad is in full camp shooting a high powered rifle and cleaning a deer while the sun is in ninja turtle pj's playing his Nintendo in his truck isn't reasonable grounds to fine someone. its so hard to police. Again... I am not saying its all the kids. I am just saying its a lot. a lot I hear about... its also a long time to shoot deer which aren't afraid of anything...


for those of you being brash about this.... please don't. its a topic that I wanted to bring up. based on the poll... a lot of people see different that what I see.. I respect that 100%

So, you say we can't rely on tickets, but surely there were tickets issued to the 30 Moms and Dads and 15 truck shooters? That's 45 people illegally shooting over a single weekend and no tickets?

I can understand that this can be hard for CO's but what about complaints? How many complaints are made? Again, if this is a real problem, then surely concerned hunters are at least reporting incidents they witness?

[horshur]

Nope not even close

I am actually getting to the point of asking myself why I bother giving a crap

Takes one to know one...what were you born in a vacuum?

[horshur]

Pretty sure in Ontario or Quebec..shooting others tags is legal...kinda like Pot is legal now

[horshur]

Bow hunting..”.someone who has the luxury to go home skunked”. A vanity just the same as trophy hunting.

[Wild one]

Really did not like my definition of a sh!t father

I have respect for the guy who takes a kid out to get their first deer but I don’t care what anyone says I won’t have respect for the father using there kid to exploit a youth season

Should be clear by now I don’t care about people on this forum trying to throw labels and assumptions about me for my opinions but have at it if you must lol

[Jelvis]

Wild one your tussling with the wrong member Hahahahaha
Jello-Hello-Horsh

[Big Lew]

Bow hunting..”.someone who has the luxury to go home skunked”. A vanity just the same as trophy hunting.

I have to challenge those blanketing statements sir! I've been a bow hunter for well over 25 years.
I've shot many deer with my bows...more than when rifle hunting. I'm definitely not a trophy hunter.
In all the considerable number of deer and 5 bull moose I've shot I've only kept one set of antlers
even though some of them were quite large 4 pointers. Same with my largest moose...it was big!