Deer attractants in Ontario

[TPM]

Just a reminder that most deer attractants are now banned in Ontario. Before you rush out and buy your Buck Bomb, Tinks 69 or Code Blue check what's in it.


http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume ... 068528.pdf

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/FW ... ttractants

[See4miles]

Wow! When did this happen? That really floors me. Seems to me this would be tough to enforce unless you had a bottle of deer pee on you and were searched. Once its on the ground, how would anyone know?
Here in good old Michigan, baiting was banned a couple years ago. Don't really care, I stopped doing that a few years back in order to up my quality of buck. But the local fruit market who gets beets brought in by the tandem truck load has continued to sell almost as many as before the ban. Folks around here apparently haven't read the rules lately.

[Doe Master]

I don`t condone breaking the law . But I can`t see the pee police out patroling for illegal scents .

[See4miles]

Please, make no mistake. I always play by the rules too! I'm just dumbfounded by this news. Baiting is one thing, dumping pee on a scrape is another.
Along those lines, I have, and i know hunters that do actually pee on scrapes as part of the strategy during the rut. I can't say it works, but I can say it doesn't hurt. Wonder if that's next for you Canadians. Can't pee in the woods!

[Pydpiper]

Did not see that coming! Thanks Tim.

[bigsy]

"Generally, it is now illegal to possess any part of the antlers, head, brain, eyes, tonsils, hide, hooves, lymph nodes, spleen, mammary glands, entrails, internal organs or spinal column of any member of the deer family that has been killed outside Ontario."


So my uncles trophy mounts from Sask, are now contraban?

[TPM]

I know the MNR has been talking about this for a while but I thought it wasn't coming into effect until 2011. The retail industry wanted a year to clear out their inventory. I hope they didn't stock up much.

[bigsy]

any proof that that bottled piss can spread cwd?

[TPM]

any proof that that bottled piss can spread cwd?

That's the best part! By their own admittance there is no proof! Pure speculation.

[PA_DeerHunter]

- More regulations means catching more hunters unaware.
- More citations of hunters means more revenue for F&G.
- More regulations means higher hunting license fees as more hunters give up hunting out of frustration and anger.
- Fewer hunters means fewer sales of hunting equipment...and so on, and so on.

Just look at how they're doing it in the state of California. Entire sections of the state are now "lead free" due to concern for the California Condor. Apparently Condors are eating lead from dead animals shot by hunters? Yeah right! Those Condors are dropping like flies from all that lead laying around in dead animals.

So a giant swath of California now prohibits any kind of lead to be used in bullets and shot shells, even pellets from a pellet gun. All done out of concern for the environment.

Sure it is! It's called regulation, and it's incremental. Wake up people!

[one shot scott]

Show me one case where it has positively transmitted CWD, and I will start to take the MNR seriously again. They are going about things all bass ackwards again.......I was ticked when it was pending, now that its in, Im just plain mad.

[TPM]

Show me one case where it has positively transmitted CWD, and I will start to take the MNR seriously again.

It hasn't happened yet and they're the first to admit it. Probably boils down to some wildlife biologist trying to justify his job.

[warningshot]

i saw somwhere where retailers are allowed to sell it .so the ban is kinda iffy.....i don't use scents but have seen them work

[dutchhunter]

as off this am are local dealer had not heard anything about it yet and has a lt of buck bombs in stock .i have a case of it so are thy telling us what we are to do with it DUTCH

[gogo]

Nobody knows for sure how cwd is spread, so they are going this route for now.The only thing I know for sure , it is better to have no attractant then to have no deer to hunt.