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Comment by Corey Coles on June 19, 2013 at 12:41pm

Moose draw is complete, you can check the results @

www.wildlife.gov.nl.ca

Comment by Corey Coles on May 21, 2013 at 9:48am

Don't forget your big game applications....

Deadline is May 24th.

Comment by Peter Emberley on April 23, 2013 at 9:08am

Thanks Corey.

Comment by Corey Coles on April 23, 2013 at 8:31am

Big Game applications available online

 

https://www.wildlife.gov.nl.ca/

Comment by David on December 21, 2012 at 7:40pm

I think teens should be allowed in the woods on there own at the age of 16, and aloud to carry a gun as long as the HS/FS course is completed when there 12 or 13 and with a parent . You cant always assume that people have a person in there family to take them hunting, so why should those teens be punished. This was my case growing up. all i wanted to do was hunt and fish, no one in my immediate family hunted or fished my father couldnt due to health reasons, so my choice was to give up somthing i dearly loved because of what i consider a BS law on the age limit or take my chances on it. Changing the age limit wont mean you are going to have young people running around the woods alone, very rarely will there parents let them, I had one relative who loved rabbit hunting and every weekend i was in the woods with him, it keep me out of alot of trouble growing up because i looked forward to it all week and it was a priority of mine to do it every chance i got. Its like Peter said, make them wait until there 18 and you will soon see the number of hunters on the island diminished, it is to long to wait to do if you have a love of the sport.  

Comment by Peter Emberley on December 21, 2012 at 10:59am

Ken when you and I started hunting. It took 3 days to gey an FAC at the police station, at age 16. With that FAC at the age of 16 we could buy all the long guns and ammo we wanted, but not restricted firearms (handguns) The only time you had to do a test, was to go big game hunting. A lot of people had no interest in big game so they didn't bother to do the Big Game Test. Now when you have the HE/FS course finished you are automatically entered in the big game draw. Now that list is so large it has gone from 5 pools to 9 pools.

  To hunt small game all you had to do was buy a licence. Here is a question for you Ken. Do you feel you were to  immature or childish at age 16 to purchase a firearm or ammo? I wasn't. I bought my first shotgun at age 16 from Terry at Heritage  Gunsmithing on Kings Road in 1985. Young Pete had 4 shotguns at age 16. However the only time he used them was with me. Pete has been hunting with me since he was 4. He had more experience at age 16 than a 30 year old, that has been hunting for 5 years.

 But here is another question. With a minors permit now at age 16 they can purchase ammo but not a firearm, but they can borrow a firearm. Whats the difference? The firearm is still in their possesion and they can hunt alone.

I believe with a mentoring program to start at age 12 in school, it will educate and instill a good code of hunting ethics in our young and upcomming hunters. Give them a full year of classroom. In that first year add in some fishing, rabbit snearing and and other outings and they will be hooked for a lifetime.

Comment by kenneth Griffiths on December 21, 2012 at 8:52am

Ed i did missunderstood you. The talk is having 16 olds with full right to buy a gun and not be educated on safty and hunting. It was on openline a few times. That is what i though you were talking about, sorry about that.

Comment by Edward Smith on December 20, 2012 at 10:14pm

Well Said,  Albert!! I agree totally.

Comment by albert linegar on December 20, 2012 at 7:42pm

   When an attitude is intrenched in an individual it is very hard and in some cases even impossible to change . " examples " I was loading my quad into my pickup at the intersection of Cape Pond RD. and the Southern Shore Highway when I heard a couple of rifle shots coming from just up the road.It didn't take long to load up and get underway. Just a short distance from the intersection I came across two vehicles stopped on a wide shoulder where the road had been up-graded on the side of Beaver Pond. One of the drivers had a rifle and since it was almost dark I stopped , out of curiosity , to see what they had fired at. They pointed to the far eastern corner of the pond as you look at the Google Earth Map and said a cow had come out in that clearing. I estimated the distance to be about 300 yds.When I asked if he got it he said he wasn't sure, it just walked into the woods. I said you still might have hit it. However, the deciding factor was based on laziness and  lack of concern ,they got into the vehicles and left. Both were old enough to have taken the same hunting test that I had to take which means hitting a target at fifty yds. If I had come upon that moose the only thing I can guarantee is that it would not die in the woods since it was a shot I would not have been stupid enough to take . It is not a stump that one is trying to hit but a living animal, and it would be far better to see it on another hunter's table because you didn't take the stupid shot , than to take the chance of it going to waste in the woods. Another time a man drove up in my yard and asked if I had seen any moose around. I told him I had not. Eventually the conversation came around to the .303 rifle he had on the back seat of his car. I asked what distance he had the gun sighted for. He said he hadn't sighted it in at all,and in fact had not even fired it for some time. If I see a moose , he said, I'll take a shot at it, and if I get it, I get it, and if I don't , I don't. This man also was old enough to have taken the same tests that I had to take . This type of attitude in individuals like that can't be changed since to them it is no different than firing at a stump. Therefore, in my opinion, it is essential to begin the process of making these changes at an early age [which is yet to be determined] so that our young people can start from scratch and learn about what it takes to be a "Real Hunter" with a real feeling for the game that they will be hunting and the ethical and humane treatment of not only that which is being hunted but also all other species of wildlife as well. If hunting is to continue into the future, I think , it is with the youth of today on which  we need to focus our attention and not the imbeciles of yesterday.

                                        Albert.

Comment by kenneth Griffiths on December 20, 2012 at 6:39pm

Yes peter i total agree with you, there are people who don't don't care as long as they are shooting. Alot of people need training with shooting a gun and don't get it. That is how mistakes are made. Don't get me wrong i not saying that taking 3 shot at 50 yards is right. But show how to shoot and be responsible with a gun. Still have all what we need in good hunting ethics. 

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