I would like to visit Canada

[Jock Scot]

Ok you chaps,just humour a poor old Scot for a wee while.Our(British)idea of hunting is with a pack of hounds,say 15 couple( ie 30),and a "field" of up to 150 people mounted on horses.We call shooting, well er,shooting.Is this what you chaps call hunting?

[Archangel]

Ok you chaps,just humour a poor old Scot for a wee while.Our(British)idea of hunting is with a pack of hounds,say 15 couple( ie 30),and a "field" of up to 150 people mounted on horses.We call shooting, well er,shooting.Is this what you chaps call hunting?

I think most people here are more used to hunting the nocturnal red haired Canadian fox.

Duck season started last week, Ducks unlimited have a project underway near Mitchell but it's not ready for hunting yet.

Hunting is more like poaching, then. Basically, you're in the woods with a buddy, or a small group. You, or your group, have permits depending on what's being hunted. From what I hear, there's little stalking. You find a trail or site and wait. There are several seasons: rifle, black powder, bow.

For more English language fun, in duck hunting you watch from the blinds. That's sort of a camo base. Dogs are involved as retrievers to get the bird from the pond, or wherever.

The gun laws are in tension. Non-hunters think the laws here are too loose, hunters think they are too tight. All agree that they are too expensive and don't do what they were supposed to do. (No response needed from other countries unless you want the thread shut, rules.) Check the laws, the border here is pretty tight about guns and the game wardens will confiscate everything for violations. I know of too many examples.

We used to have the UK style of fox hunt here but it was a scented trail but it's a rich people game and why cut them slack. The other thing that happened locally is that houses near the Hunt Club became desired and then the homeowners didn't want the Hunt Club riding by. Ironic, isn't it.

Anyway, I'm just passing on anecdotal info. Please check our local laws before and remember that guns and alcohol equal Darwin.

[ccga3359]

Actually guns are banned here, we now have to resort to hand grenades for hunting.

[James MacMillan]

Actually guns are banned here, we now have to resort to hand grenades for hunting.

Oh! Sort-of like I fish?

[David Thornton]

Ok you chaps,just humour a poor old Scot for a wee while.Our(British)idea of hunting is with a pack of hounds,say 15 couple( ie 30),and a "field" of up to 150 people mounted on horses.We call shooting, well er,shooting.Is this what you chaps call hunting?

Jack, it is what I think you call rough shooting. A hunter or group of hunters set decoys on known flights for waterfowl or in feeding fields (where permission is given) to draw waterfowl near enough for effective shotgunning. Upland hunting is similarly sized groups, with pointing dogs, searching the prairies for prairie chickens & huns, or woodlots for the guys in the east for ruff grouse.

No active riding to the hounds in Canada that I am aware of, I happen to live in one of the real hotbeds of proper hunting that you are familiar with. However, coyotes have replaced the fox for quarry.

And no driven shoots either, again that I am familiar with.

I could be easily convinced to visit a shoot in Scotland, and would love a bit of rough shooting, maybe even a couple of days stalking.

David