PRIVITE LAND HUNTING

[mervlott]

hy here in south centeral BC getting permisson to hunt on privite land is like picking gold from Gandma teeth :cry: IS IT A PROBLEM in other parts Merry Christmas :D :D :D

[sir_huntsalot]

Around Calgary , you bet it is! To many yuppies.

[lonewolf]

around here in the sault its not too bad but it can definately drive you crazy when a farmer has a crap load of deer and property and won't let u hunt there cause his wife likes to watch the deer graze on his fields. a friend of my brothers approached a farmer asked politely to hunt his property even told him he'd help get the hay off the fields and said NO! the following year he puts an add in the paper to help rid his land of some of the deer lol a few had responded to his add but to no avail most of his corn and hay had been eaten .. now he lets a selected few to hunt his property bow only @ a price thats way to high not sure if my brother 200 or 300$$ thats a pretty costly deer considering we are only allowed one deer per year

[WOOKIE]

Here is an article I wrote on permission hunting

http://www.bowzone.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid= 42

[Jack19]

Getting permisson to hunt on private land is hit and miss around here, some farmers have no problem with hunters and others won't let you hunt at all.

One of the landowners where I hunt had a horse shot a few years ago but still allows people to hunt on his land. I dont think I would be letting people hunt on my land if I had a horse shot.

Some of the farmers here have problems with wild life eating their crops and hay bails. These are the ones that will usually let hunters on their land. I also hunt a few areas where the landowners only allow a couple of hunters per year which makes for very good hunting.

:thumbsup:

[BlueNorther]

I've had a hell uv a time getting permission in the Airdrie area and I've been here 17 years :( .Now I know a guy here and his Dad and partners have purchased 11 quarters of conservancy land and we can hunt on some of it with a few stipulations.Mule deer are draw but there are some white-tail and elk.

When I hunted in the Porcupine Hills area I never got turned down to hunt on the ranches down there.Some ranchers were more than happy to let us come in and shoot the elk :lol:

[T-man]

When I was living out in BC I pretty much gave up on asking permission to hunt on private land. Always got shot down by the land owner, besides I never had a problem getting into quite spots on public land and harvesting game. (Did alot of hunting around Rock Creek and Creston....the land owners probaly didn't want me to find their marihuana grows out in the bush.....don't laugh, found two big ones)

Here in Alberta I'm hitting 2 for 2. No problems so far, mind you I like to get away from the pressure and hunt big country so the ranchers don't get asked a lot. Got my Elk this year on private land, although I will have to admit the land owner is a co-worker of mine. Talking to him he has had bad experiences with hunters, shooting from the road and near/over his cows etc. Generally speaking he isn't to keen on giving permission to someone he doesn't know. We can be our own worst enemies and it's become necessary to police ourselves and report indescretions of other so called "hunters"

[bcbowman]

it's all in the presentation I think. I am fortunate in that my job as a cable guy gets me into alot of peoples homes and being in a rural area alot of my customers have parcels and farmland. I made an effort this year to ask often when the opportunity came up and i found about a 60/40 split for the good. I came out of this year with a 200 acre vineyard with hay feilds surrounding, a nice horse ranch of about 50 acres, bordering the bush near my home and even got permission to hunt a mountain here accessable only by going through a reservation. So it does pay to ask, and generally folks are pretty good even when they say no. I did have the lady who loves to watch her deer, and she even puts salt licks out for them and feeds them apples who said no to me, but it was worth the effort.

cdnarhcer, I read yer article.......well said!!!!!!

[scooter]

O' CABLE GUY!

Sorry man...Had to do it... :D heh heh

That's a great job to meet people at I bet.

[mervlott]

I was down hunting 2 years ago fort steel and cranbrook the deer elk and easpeacialy turkeys do so mutch damadge its easy toget permission but there is clowns who want to drive around there fields and realy **** off the land owner But here in the shuswap the farmers get 3 crops of hay so its hard to think a couple of whiteails do any damage

[swampdonkey]

Nothing upsets me more than spending numerous hours scouting, finding the perfect spot and then getting permission to hunt on private land and then when you have everything set up and its a go, people come driving through screaming and hollering and making it bad for all of us that takes the time to get permission to hunt the private lands.

take the extra time to locate lost arrows or casing shells and don't tear up the crops with vehicles, if a animal is harvested try to move it off to the timber line if you can before removing the internals. Usually if this is mentioned to the land owner nine times out of ten you will get permission
Swampdonkey