New Sunday gun hunting opportunities added

[MeghanOOD]

https://oodmag.com/new-sunday-gun-hu...unities-added/

Five more southern Ontario townships have been added to the list of municipalities that permit Sunday gun hunting.

[trimmer21]

I'm glad to see that Scugog Township finally got on board. It'll be a big boost for local business,besides,the local Coyote population is in dire need of attention. Now,if we just get Clarington into the mix........

[finsfurfeathers]

So with more and more going too sunday hunting whats going to happen too the spring goose hunt?

[Marker]

As a group of hunters we should be the first to recognize that we are in the minority and if we do not respect and put the rights and safety of other users of public land before our own wants and needs then expect the majority to stand up and ban hunting all together.

There are many people who would like to go out on a Sunday for hike without worrying about being shot.

Case in point, many years ago my family owned some prime hunting land, unknown to us the local council passed a by law prohibiting the discharge of firearms on our land. The definition of firearms included bows and as a result we could no longer hunt on our own land.

In my observation, it is not the folks on this forum which create the problem, there is a small number of yahoos who go out on public land and target practice, use restricted firearms, leave garbage, and consume alcohol. I have personally witnessed these events. Due to the fact that the hunting community is a collection of autonomous individuals we have no control over the one-off yahoos, and as result of this we must stand up and hold ourselves responsible by association for the actions of these yahoos and implement acceptable controls before the majority do it for us.

If we as a collective of hunters stand up and say that we recognize hunting is in the minority and put other users first government leadership will not have a reason to make further bans.

We have already seen this in the recent gun bans, and unless we as a collective (are you listening CCFR?) turn to the government and demand tighter gun restrictions that make sense the government will implement further restriction which do not make sense (ie Australia banned the Browning Auto-5).

The question therefore becomes, do you want to make the rules or do you want to be told the rules.

[finsfurfeathers]

There are many people who would like to go out on a Sunday for hike without worrying about being shot.

I would hope that goes for any day of the week. Though had an incident this year at Fingal. While hunting on the hunting side of Fingal on a designated hunting day still had some guy jog through the area. Stopped to talked to him and reminded him that the other side was for non hunting activities esp on designated hunting days.
Thing is you got to respect what and where you're doing it as ya if you're a P.I.T.A. things will get shut down, but in the same vain won't shrink away or try and hide what I do as if it were a shameful activity.