Just got home. Pretty awesome trip, checking out some new places and giving the birdies heck... well, minus all the ones that got away or I missed LOL but that made for some good blooper videos. Still enough for a pretty big Thanksgiving dinner for. Saw a nice muley doe this morning that hung around long enough for some close up video.
Anyway, for the sake of this topic, this is from the regs:
30. To hunt game, except migratory gamebirds (see #31), from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise. To find out the time of sunrise and sunset,consult a local newspaper or the following website: www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/sunrise/index.html. The responsibility remains with the hunter to make the determination of sunrise and sunset in the field based on existing terrain and circumstances.
If I look at the sunset for the nearest town, I had about 10-15 mins of legal light. I suspect it "probably" would have been legal if I switched off the car (daytime running lights LOL) and could have got a responsible shot on it if I was lucky enough to walk up to where it went into the trees and saw it there starring back at me. At the end of the day, nothing about it felt right (other than the questioning myself for about an hour after) I'm not opposed to road hunting (I love driving around and shooting road birds with a scatter gun) but jumping out of the car to pursue a buck in questionable light isn't my cup of tea. If I was still-hunting in the timber or in a blind, that might have went down differently. I think I learned/confirmed something about myself in that situation and that is I am going to go with my gut, every single time. No internal dilemma where reluctance exists is going to be won by temptation in a split second forced situation. It's worked out well for me hunting and life in general. My gut told me not to shoot a bear while watching it for a couple hours between consecutive nights. Cubs 15-20 yards back in the treeline... who woulda known... gotta use those spidey senses