Here, in Manitoba, Canada, we have to take and pass a Hunter Safety Course consisting of classroom and field time and from then on the hunter education certificate or last years licence must be presented before a hunting licence will be issued...If you had X number of hunting licences prior to the law being enacted then you were grandfathered in and didn't have to take the course...and therein lies the problem…
We were field shooting geese, for the last bird of my limit, I shoot and hit one fairly solid, it flies on for a ways and then drops about 100 yards behind me and about 5 yards in front of another hunter…I walk back to claim it and the s**t for brains points his shotgun at me and says it’s his bird…I ain’t dying over a goose…I limit out about 30 minutes later and leave…
On the family farm (1½ sections owned, 2½ sections leased), I and five friends were driving in the van to the ground stands for the evening hunt…we had just gotten to the first stand and as George is unloading his gear a truck drives around the clump of trees with 3 hunters in the back, driver and passenger in the cab, none of whom are wearing proper hunting attire of blaze orange vest/hat…I ask them if they have permission to hunt on this land and they say ”we don’t need any F**ken permission"...I point out that they are trespassing on my land (which is posted) and ask them to kindly leave…all this time the mother humping SOBs in the back are pointing their rifles at us…they drive off and we hear shots about two minutes later…we drive over and they’re dressing out a large doe, I call the RCMP and was told that it wasn’t their jurisdiction (lazy sh*ts)… I point out trespass and pointing a weapon and they come but can’t arrest them as they have fled the scene, actually drove off quietly as it took the police 5 hours to get there…
During the upland bird season, the "hunters" will drive the roads dividing our property, which is OK, but they'll stick their guns out the windows of their cars or trucks and ground or tree shoot the ruffled or spruce grouse they encounter...I unknowingly gave permission to some of them to use the paths through our property...the problem is that they'll shoot out the whole covey of birds without leaving any breeding stock for next year...
In a ten year period we have lost 4 cows (DEER) and 1 prize winning bull (MOOSE), 1 pig (WILD BOAR), 2 dogs (WOLVES) and numerous tame ducks & geese (THE SAME)…one idiot was standing on our front lawn and shooting, towards the house, at a domestic goose…The MOOSE & WOLVES weren’t in season yet and the “hunters” didn’t have licences for them anyway, The DEER & BIRDS were at least in season…but none of these a**holes know what any of the animals looked like…the WILD BOAR, of which there aren’t any around here to begin with and as such there is no season for, was shot in her pen as were the cows, the bull and some of the birds...
Our posted signage reads "NO Trespassing, Hunting, Camping, Shooting or Off-Road Driving without written permission by owner. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
One of the biggest problems we have around these parts is "Jack lighters"..."Hunters" that drive around at night with big spotlights on their vehicles and as soon as they see a deer, flash a beam of light at the eyes, which stuns the deer, and then they shoot it...they do it all year round and if in season, without a hunting licence...this depletes the amount of animals available for legitimate hunters...
One guy, two towns away, that I know of, has been arrested five (5) times, for poaching, by Natural Resources, but as he's feeding a family of 9 or 10, he gets off with a $50.00 fine...I know first hand that he takes between 10 to 12 deer a year and has been for at least 30 years...I don’t consider it poaching if you and your family is starving and you shoot the deer to feed them...this guy shoots them, sells the meat and then buys domestic meats...