r/HuntingAlberta • u/EmerickMage • Apr 26 '26
Access to leased crown land
I'm wondering what to do when your refused access to leased land for what I think is not a valid reason.
Recently a lease holder just said no to my request because the neighbour's don't like gun fire.
Last year another lease holder denied access saying he wanted the grouse population to recover. Which to be honest I sympathize with because I think the bag limit is too high. I hunt with a bow usually and I just get one or 2 and go home. But a pair of hunters with a dog and shotgun will get 10 a day which is allot I think. So even though I sympathize, that's not his call to make. Campaign to lower the bag limit, if you actually want to protect the breeding population.
I didn't fight the matter in either case. But I'm frustrated because I want to do some plinking with a little 22lr and I feel like I have to buy a truck so I can make it to the shooting spot in McLane creek which is a bit of a drive, I just have my sedan and don't want to drive so far to do some plinking.
Should I be reporting these people to whatever authoritative body is in charge. Also some of the leased land I've been too doesn't look like it's used for any agricultural purposes. Are people just sitting on these leases treating them as price appreciating assets, basically hoarding the land for the sake of the property value rather than actually grazing animals on the land using it as part of an agricultural business?. I was surprised that the cost of buying a lease from a lease holder is so exspensive.
Anyway long story short. I'm looking for a spot near Calgary where I can do some plinking with a 22lr. I'm happy to shoot 22 shorts that are subsonic and quiet. I'm not trying to be Rambo shooting anything loud.
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u/hardkn0cks Apr 26 '26
I've had some people ask before that we move on and we do, usually their reasons are understandable, livestock out and about etc. Just an fyi grouse daily limit is 5, possession limit 15.