Hunters??

RA · 08-21-2007, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by Red Ketchup

Fortunately you can't do that here (well, unless you are a poacher...)

To hunt in my province, you have to follow a general hunting safety course, and then a specialized course according to the weapons you want to use to get your "hunters card" which is necessary to buy a permit.

The specialized course for firearms and crossbows are just a basic 4-6 hours "firearms safety" course on handling, safe shooting, transport and storage.

The archery specialty course is also a handling, shooting and all that course, but there is also a practical shooting test. They want to make sure you can shoot and that your bow is properly tuned, so for the test you have to put a certain number of arrows in targets at 20, 30 and 40 yards.

That cut down a LOT on bowhunters unnecessarely wounding animals.

I think it should be required. We have a hunter safety course but you dont actually touch a weapon in the class. Doesnt make much sense...

Originally Posted by Red Ketchup

I love that, when you are dead quiet in your blind or treestand and nature just starts popping out around you... I bought a good digital SLR camera this year with a decent zoom, I can't wait to take some pics!!!

Red

Not a bad idea...Ill have to try that. Cool to get some nature shots.

**bowonly** · 08-21-2007, 01:16 PM

Usually works out that if you have a gun or bow... no deer. With nothing or a camera... deer everywhere!!! I started bringing a camera with me. I'm not a trophy hunter, but after I take my first doe, I will wait for the right buck and let the little guys get bigger. So I take pictures of them!

**Mojoman** · 08-21-2007, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by wascaptain5214

here is a pic of my camp. its on 40 secluded wooded acres. when its just me and the wife there..we stay in the nude. white tails, hogs, squirrels, coons and fish in the pond....its a true paradise....hanging from the boxing on the porch, you can see, the tails of what was killed this last season.

That's a cool looking place ya got there, Cap.

**RockyX** · 08-21-2007, 10:13 PM

Yeah it never fails. No gun, no bow. Big bucks. Actually for me, in bow season I see big bucks everywhere, but they are normally 60 yards plus. R***e season, the little guys will practically run you over...and I'm being literal I was walking through a bunch of pine trees when I heard something crashing through the woods then I see horns coming out and the thing came out just perpendicular to me not 10 feet away. I was walking the tree line and he must have heard me walking and assumed I was a doe. Then he just stood there infront of me looking off to my right. Never even knew I was there until I dropped the ziplock bag I was carrying lol. Probably the craziest thing that ever happened to me.