Tag Cutting

[vincentcui]

If your buddy is there and can shoot the deer again before it dies, why are you shooting in the first place?
His deer, let him finish what he started.


Sounds like you are trying to figure out ways to game the system.

Same thing happened this year near Hwy 24. Dude's friend was closer to the wounded bear and refused to shoot the bear. The bear ran further and could not be retrieved. None of the hunters cut a tag, and a bear went wasted because they did not want to "game the system".

[KodiakHntr]

Sounds like one guy just knew the law and didn’t want to cut a tag on a bear he didn’t want to shoot.

Nothing in nature goes to waste.

[180grainer]

The LEH say this about a group hunt. "Group Hunt applications are entered in thedraw as one entry for the whole group. If aGroup Hunt application is drawn and thereare enough remaining authorizations foreach group member, each hunter in thegroup receives an LEH authorization and eachhunter may harvest an authorized animal." That suggests if four guys put in and win entitling them to two moose, meaning those two moose are authorized under that group hunt, then any member of that authorized group can kill either or both of those authorized animals. LOL.

[KodiakHntr]

The LEH say this about a group hunt. "Group Hunt applications are entered in thedraw as one entry for the whole group. If aGroup Hunt application is drawn and thereare enough remaining authorizations foreach group member, each hunter in thegroup receives an LEH authorization and eachhunter may harvest an authorized animal." That suggests if four guys put in and win entitling them to two moose, meaning those two moose are authorized under that group hunt, then any member of that authorized group can kill either or both of those authorized animals. LOL.

The lack of understanding of basic BC regulations on hbc never ceases to amaze me.

[elker]

This was a real one. My buddy had never killed a bear. I wanted to help him. In one hunt, I found a bear. It was eating grass at road side. I quietly left the bear and went to my where my buddy was. I told him how to do to approach the bear and kill it. He found that bear and fired a shot. The bullet hit the chest. The bear fell to the ground. It’s not dead. It was in pain and was biting a piece of wood. I told my buddy to shoot again. He aimed at the head and fired. The bullet hit the bear’s face. The bear was in more pain and moving its head and body. I yelled at my buddy to kill it to end its suffering. He shot at the head again, which didn’t hit the vital. I became furious. I grabbed his rifle and filed a shot at its heart. It died in a few seconds.

I asked him, “why did you shoot the head, not the chest?” His answer was he believed a headshot was quicker to end the suffering. In the end, he cut the tag. I was the one who fired the kill shot.

[dmaxtech]

then any member of that authorized group can kill either or both of those authorized animals. LOL.

This is wrong, still have to remain within provincial and regional bag limits, which for most group hunts is 1 per hunter.

BAG LIMIT An LEH authorization does not permit a person to exceed the hunting season bag limit for any species. See the current Hunting and Trapping Regulations Synopsis for information on provincial and regional bag limits.

[vincentcui]

if you son was able to enter into the LEH then he should have his own tags and cut them if he shoots an animal. The youth program is designed for kids that haven't taken and passed their CORE training. Why would you want to cancel you tag for your son if he is able to purchase a tag for himself.

If you won the LEH your son wouldn't legally be allowed to kill that animal and vise vera. If you both draw it you should each have your own tag

I was today years old when I learned that a CORE qualified youth can either buy a youth licence or a regular licence. Neither is required to apply LEH so the parent can decide later upon LEH results are released. If my son and I both pull a doe draw, or if he pulls a doe draw but I don't but I want to hunt a buck, we both need to buy regular license.

[huntcoop]

What's a tag?

Asking for an indian buddy.

[HappyJack]

To a very extreme scenario that if I don't want to cut my tag and I'm sure my friend shot will eventually kill the deer, I will then only have two options to cut his but not my tag:

Option 1: wait until the deer dies, so his shot registers as the kill shot; or
Option 2: fire a shot at the deer and immediately asks my friend to shoot at the deer again just before the deer's last breath so the last shot is the kill shot.

Pure stupidity that the rules are so messed up that anyone would even have to consider such nonsense to try and stay legal.

Hunters are supposed to dispatch a wounded animal ASAP, not let them run off to feed the coyotes while we argue about who is going to cut their tags.

Maybe one day we will get some people with a head on their shoulders to do a re-write on the regulations to clear up all the stupid legaleze nonsense we have now.

[Downtown]

As the law is written, in that scenario, your friend wounded a deer. YOU killed a deer. Your tag gets cut, not his.

In BC, whoever fires the killing shot, killed the animal. Whoever killed the animal, cuts their tag.

Doesn’t matter if you want to try and find a loophole, the law is pretty clear the way it is written, whomever kills the animal, cuts the tag. If you don’t have a tag and try to “end the animals suffering” if it is wounded by someone else, then the way the law is written you are breaking the law and run the risk of being charged. BC doesn’t have any allowances for “doing the right thing” or finishing a rodeo, it’s purely if you killed it, you tag it. If you don’t have a tag, either don’t shoot or learn to keep your mouth shut.

Sorry Bud but I trust you are wrong.
Some time ago I asked this question in writing directly to F&W. Why becouse I am a licenced BC Outfitter and it happened several times during a Grizzly hunt that a Grizzly took off after being shot and the Guide did not wanted to get shot by a super nervous and/or inexperienced Hunter in the following search so he left the Hunter behind.

The written answer from F&W was, the original Shooter/Hunter must cut his Tag. However the Fellow which foud it helping the Hunter must have a Hunting Licence (dont need to have a Tag). If I had the time I would dig throug my Records to find that pice of Paper.

Cheers