With respect to that article in the Morning Star, I used to live in Vernon, and lived on Bella Vista Road. That part of the town used to be nothing but farms and orchards. However, like everything else housing developments spread out without much thought, to be backed up against working farms and orchards. Not knowing the full details of the incident, but the hunters were using bows which fall outside of the firearms regulations. However, the bow hunters do have to follow the guidelines as set out by the bylaw mentioned. They did exercise poor judgement in hunting from the bed of a pickup truck, but as long as they secured permission from the landowner to hunt on the property, and they were taking a shot at a legal deer (within the restrictions of the deer season for that MU) they are good to go.
Deer have become a problem in certain parts of the valley so harvesting them by hunting, instead of being hit by a car seems like a reasonable trade-off in my humble opinion.
Last edited by britman101; 01-02-2018 at 11:49 PM.