I would like to visit Canada

[Kilted Stuart]

Jock Scot,
A lot of our hunting using dogs is for flushing or pointing upland game birds like Pheasant etc. They are also used for retrieving downed ducks from a blind over water and on the ground. There mostly used in ones or two's but I don't think your allowed to flush and chase foxes with packs of dogs. We have lots of hunting (shooting) oportuities all over Canada for anything from Moose to Deer, ducks to Geese. All of these require the proper license and tags to control the hunt. We are very much into controlling what we take to keep a balance of the numbers in the wild so we don't alter the balance of migratory and resident birds and game, we like to have them for years to come , not kill them all off. So they assess how many are around, what the total population is and how the last few years have been for them in the winter and how well they have reproduced. Then a proper number of tags (moose and Deer), or a limited open season (and # per person per season) you are allowed to take( seasons for different duck species, geese and upland field birds).
I don't hunt but I know of many that do, and I do enjoy a good feast of wild game from time to time. As long as it's controlled and is used to keep populations of an animal (sometimes there are so many deer around they are a serious threat to drivers on our highways) in check ,I'm O.k with it.

Kilted Stuart

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Jock Scot,
A lot of our hunting using dogs is for flushing or pointing upland game birds like Pheasant etc. They are also used for retrieving downed ducks from a blind over water and on the ground. There mostly used in ones or two's but I don't think your allowed to flush and chase foxes with packs of dogs. We have lots of hunting (shooting) oportuities all over Canada for anything from Moose to Deer, ducks to Geese. All of these require the proper license and tags to control the hunt. We are very much into controlling what we take to keep a balance of the numbers in the wild so we don't alter the balance of migratory and resident birds and game, we like to have them for years to come , not kill them all off. So they assess how many are around, what the total population is and how the last few years have been for them in the winter and how well they have reproduced. Then a proper number of tags (moose and Deer), or a limited open season (and # per person per season) you are allowed to take( seasons for different duck species, geese and upland field birds).
I don't hunt but I know of many that do, and I do enjoy a good feast of wild game from time to time. As long as it's controlled and is used to keep populations of an animal (sometimes there are so many deer around they are a serious threat to drivers on our highways) in check ,I'm O.k with it.

Kilted Stuart

Any idea if the are lotteries on licenses? It would be a shame for David to come up only to find that he can't get a licence.