That Quail Place Forum
Hunting Gamebirds => Hunting Gamebirds => Topic started by: birddog on February 07, 2008, 09:18:24 PM
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what is the deal in your area? can you just pull over beside the road when you find a nice looking spot or is everything private land? are landowners receptive to requests to hunt on there property? here in the northeast it is getting more difficult to find open hunting land. no tresspassing / posted. everywhere. sad situation :sad:
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what is the deal in your area? can you just pull over beside the road when you find a nice looking spot.
All privately owned in my area, except for Wayne National Forest. 20 years ago, deer hunters from all over came to my area, and did just what you said, "just pulled over along side the road wherever they felt like", even parked in people yards and driveways, total disregard for posted, "no hunting areas". So everyone can thank these types of people for the attitude that most around me have towards hunters nowadays. It's always "no hunting", unless your their neighbor.
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That's one of the great things about living here.
The Govt. has a rule making it illegal to "discharge a firearm or cause a projectile from a firearm to pass along or across;
a) a provincial highway,
b)a road that is paved, oiled, or regularly maintained, UNLESS
* the road is held under any active disposition under the Public Lands Act or under an order under the Surface Rights Act, OR
*the person is hunting game birds with a shotgun under the authority of a licence"
That means that I can be driving ANYWHERE in the Province, that is not designated a preserve, and if I see a Pheasant or any other game bird in the ditch, I can screech from my usual 60mph. jump out and start shooting. Gives that warm safe feeling, don't it? j44
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That's one of the things I liked about B.C. Most of the hunting was done on logging roads. Hop out, shoot the Grouse......drive farther up the road, hop out and shoot the Deer !
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reeves and labmancan that sounds pretty much like the deal here in Maine. ( heater hunting ) s020 as for the disrespectfull behavior its too bad a few bad apples have to ruin everything for the rest of us.. the 4 wheeler guys and speed boaters did the same thing. their areas are dwindling. the real surprise lately is no snowmobiling signs. I never thought I would see that.
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Most of the land in TX. is private and must be leased annually. Some large tracts available to public for hunting. www.texasparks and wildlife.com
Larry Lain
www.doublelquailfarms.com
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reeves and labmancan that sounds pretty much like the deal here in Maine. ( heater hunting ) s020
They'd hang a fella around here for anything that even ressembled anything even close to that, although I'm right smack dab in the middle of hippie country.........don't step on that spider!
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AB is a a lot tougher finding roads you can do that on. Look at a map of BC and AB.....big difference. However, BC is covered in logging roads, not on maps.
I forget which Province has the rule, but I think it's AB that you have to be a certain distance from your vehicle before you can shoot.
Regs for both Provinces are about a 30lb book, that you need a team of lawyers to read and advise you.
AB also has some goofy rules for fishing: no barbed hooks.
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The real crazy thing about Ab., is you can do it on ANY road, as long as it is for Bird Game, and you are using a Shotgun. Rifle, Bow and Slug for Big Game are entirely different rules, which requires a lawyer to interpret. s176
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no barbed hooks.. I think their trying to at least recommend that here in the states to. as for the rules up there. a few years ago we went to northern Quebec on vacation. I was reading over some of the fishing rules. and found a lot of weird sounding stuff. I saw some places a little further north where you can not fish without a local Indian guide.
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It's locked up around my area as well Just like CharlieHorse has stated. If you are not family or a neighbor in good standing, don't ask.
We even have road signs down my road that have been c110 up. The last time I had seen something like this was in the 1960's on L.I. NY.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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So hard to find hunting land in Ohio, I lease 760 acres in southern Ohio from paper company. There has been just to much abuse from ( hunters?) in the past.
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I have been quite fortunate, I being an outsider, and from Nu Yak, no less, s020 have been accepted in my community. I have access to well over 625 acres with out getting into my truck.
I have great respect for the people in my community. I also enjoy having a cup or two or three, of coffee and talking and listening about old times and their old times. Two different worlds, WV and NY.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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I also enjoy having a cup or two or three, of coffee and talking and listening about old times and their old times. Two different worlds, WV and NY.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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thats right a lot of local business here in rural Maine is done at the local country store around the wood stove over a cup of coffee. one has to work themselves into this group but once in your all set. hopefully if we do end up moving south I can find a similar deal.
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I also enjoy having a cup or two or three, of coffee and talking and listening about old times and their old times. Two different worlds, WV and NY.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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thats right a lot of local business here in rural Maine is done at the local country store around the wood stove over a cup of coffee. one has to work themselves into this group but once in your all set. hopefully if we do end up moving south I can find a similar deal.
Hey steve you should see what it is like where i come from you need a glass of whiskey (irish not scotch ) and a pint of guinness but once you get in there i was intergrated by vertue of family (all farmers) but the stories were great the lies were even better but 90 % of deals were done in the local Pub Jim
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I also enjoy having a cup or two or three, of coffee and talking and listening about old times and their old times. Two different worlds, WV and NY.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
thats right a lot of local business here in rural Maine is done at the local country store around the wood stove over a cup of coffee. one has to work themselves into this group but once in your all set. hopefully if we do end up moving south I can find a similar deal.
Your right, I remember seeing this at the local candy/grocery store in the local community when I was going to grade school. Just a bunch of old guys sitting by the pot belly stove drinking black tar coffee. Back then, there were lots of farms. Those were the days
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
I also enjoy having a cup or two or three, of coffee and talking and listening about old times and their old times. Two different worlds, WV and NY.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
thats right a lot of local business here in rural Maine is done at the local country store around the wood stove over a cup of coffee. one has to work themselves into this group but once in your all set. hopefully if we do end up moving south I can find a similar deal.
Hey steve you should see what it is like where i come from you need a glass of whiskey (irish not scotch ) and a pint of guinness but once you get in there i was intergrated by vertue of family (all farmers) but the stories were great the lies were even better but 90 % of deals were done in the local Pub Jim
Jim,
Sad but true.. life seemed so simple back then growing up in the 50' and 60's. Just the TV(B&W) then color, Telephone(partyline) and the Radio(AM then FM) Dr's made house calls, and no such thing as credit/debit cards.
Feb. 1966 got my drivers license and a 1955 Chevy Belair, and gas was $0.25.9 a gal. The gas price wars between 3 local stations.
Walking into the local Deli for a breakfast eggs sandwich with the shotgun before heading out to Hunt for rabbits along the train tracks, or the woods for the Grey Squirrels.
Boy, do I feel old. The old handshake and your word on a deal no longer exists in this world.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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I know exactly what you mean, I grew up in the middle of the Cascade Mtns. in B.C., I never even seen a T.V. until I was 8-9. We used to be able to carry our rifles on the school bus. I would take it to school on fridays, put it in my locker, then I could get on my buddies bus fri. afternoon, hunt his area all weekend, come mon. get on his bus and take my rifle back to school for the day, on the bus that afternoon and home. Now if the neighbor see's you carry it from your truck to the house, they freak and call the Cops. The Cops in Edmonton have arrested kids for having PELLET guns out in public. Too many bleeding heart liberals and a society that has lost the old values. Everything is more,More, More, More - Faster, Faster, Faster!
Forgive my ramblings, I too remember more honest times, when you could still smell wood smoke in the fall, and you knew hunting season was about to start. Mothers that actually took all day to make a pot of soup or stew, baking bread and buns on Thursdays. Darned socks, (which I hated) and could sew a button back on.
Damn did it again, rambling, sorry.
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Yup......... s87
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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Now if the neighbor see's you carry it from your truck to the house, they freak and call the Cops. The Cops in Edmonton have arrested kids for having PELLET guns out in public. Too many bleeding heart liberals and a society that has lost the old values. Everything is more,More, More, More - Faster, Faster, Faster!
Coming back from hunting (on foot no car) stop at the local pub for a warm up shotguns went onna rack behind the bar to stop kids playing with then as pubs incountry side Ireland in the 70s were still shop /house/ bar all rolled into one jim
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labmancan stop it your making me cry talk about the good old days.. Finnegan. I havn,t been to ireland but would love to daughter has been there (school trip) through Europe 2 years in a row. she hasn,t stopped talking about ireland says she wants to move there. with the last name of Sullivan and great grandparents names of Mansfield and McNamara she should have a good start. although I don,t know what she would think about a pint of Guinness
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although I don,t know what she would think about a pint of Guinness
well tell her to try it there now in the US no comparison
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Finnegan, no comparison. isn,t that the truth. I don,t know if I would like the real stuff. never mind my daughter. I would like to try though.
when we went to Canada a few years ago on vacation. I was kinda s53 off that I could not find molson golden in the stores.I was thinking it would be better in Canada. all I could find was the molson ale. then I thought about it for a minute. duh.
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all private except fish and game property. have to have written permission to hunt any land that is cultivated or artificialy irragated or posted wich is about everything.
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.I was thinking it would be better in Canada. all I could find was the molson ale. then I thought about it for a minute. duh.
yep i am in canada on a regular basis lots of family there I live 20 mins from canadian border Molsen gets a workout on a regular basis Jim