>>1418817Get a copy of the hunting regulations in your province. They should be free and will keep you out of a lot of trouble.
As for opportunities, you can either hunt on public land, ask for permission to hunt someone else’s land or join a hunt club.
Public land is free, but also overhunted and overcrowded as heck. Be sure to wear your orange as well. You don’t want some kid to shoot you because you were moving in the woods and he was nervous.
Private land is where the hunting gets better. Go knock on doors in the country and ask farmers if you can hunt on their land, or if they know anyone who you could ask. Deer chew up crops, so they might be more willing for you to hunt there than you think. Be careful, do what they say and don’t shoot in the direction of the house and you should have a great time.
Hunt clubs take all shapes and sizes. Here in the American South, lots of timber companies lease yearly hunting rights to hunters in roughly 40-acre tract parcels for some nominal fee. This not only basically pays the property taxes on the tract while the trees grow, the hunters also act like armed guards, keeping illegal pot farmers and other shitheads from cutting down the timber company’s trees.
Other hunt clubs are a bunch of buddies who buy a piece of land and make it what they want, working the land and placing food and tree stands as they see fit to optimize their opportunities. It can be great, but you’ll end up paying for the privilege. Lots of those guys dump multiple thousands of dollars per year on not only yearly dues, but also maintenance to the property, tree stands, trail cameras, and of course food for the deer in the form of food plots and even corn dumped on the ground (in the off-season only, unless the law allows hunting over bait).
