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Does anybody know if it is legal to hunt out of a truck? Ever since rifle season started I have had a TON of people driving around back in forth in front of my tree stand in there truck. It has been a cold hunting season so i will give them that. Is it illegal or just unsportmanlike?

If I remember right as long as you get out of the vehicle, before you start shooting its legal, you just cant roll down the window and blast away, I thing also you cant have your gun loaded in the vehicle either its a safety issue.

Loaded Firearms:  
A person may not have or carry a loaded firearm in or on any vehicle or discharge a firearm from any vehicle. A rifle or shotgun is considered loaded if it has a live shell or cartridge in the chamber, attached magazine or loading mechanism. A muzzleloader, with a charge in the barrel, may be transported between hunting sites only if the firing cap is removed or, in the case of a flintlock, the flint is removed. When not traveling between hunting sites, the firing cap or flint must be removed and the barrel must not contain a charge.

Here's a few regulations from the 2017 hunting guide. Always best to review and follow these regs as they do change.  
 
Provincial Roads and Highways  
 
Hunting is prohibited on Provincial Roads and Provincial Trunk Highways (PTH). This means that no person may discharge a firearm or bow from, across or along any provincial road or provincial trunk highway including the road allowance (ditch). It is illegal to feed or place an attractant for wildlife or exotic wildlife in a road allowance of any PR or PTH.  
 
Municipal and Local Government District Roads  
 
Centrefire rifles, or muzzleloading firearms and shotguns with slugs may not be discharged from, across or along a public road within a municipality or local government district. This restriction includes the adjacent road allowance (ditch).  
 
Vehicle Regulations  
 
Restrictions on the use of vehicles have been established for several major reasons - to increase the quality of the hunting experience, to reduce illegal hunting from vehicles and to provide undisturbed areas for big game animals. It is illegal to hunt from a vehicle. For example, a vehicle  
may not be used to search for, locate, “push bush” or to flush out game under any circumstances. Vehicles may only be used to transport hunters, supplies or equipment to or from a hunting area. In most areas, vehicles may be used to retrieve a big game kill by the most direct route.  
 
Roads, Trails and Waterways  
 
In the Roads, Trails and Waterways Zone, all vehicles operated by white-tailed deer, elk or moose hunters are restricted to roads, established trails and waterways.  
For example, an ORV may be used to access a hunting area along an established trail that winds through the forest or grassland, but hunters may not establish their own trails or venture off existing trails. In agricultural areas, hunters with  
landowner permission may use a vehicle to cross a cultivated field by the most direct route to access the continuation  
of the established trail or the hunting area.  
 
In an area where bluffs of trees are interspersed with cultivated land, a hunter may use a vehicle to travel from bluff to bluff by the most direct route. However, if hunting activities cause a big game animal to travel to another bluff, a vehicle may not be used to follow, chase after, or pursue that big game animal. It is illegal to hunt, including searching for and following game, from a vehicle.

Definitely NOT legal. You can only use a vehicle to get to or from a hunting area and to retrieve your game. Best to talk to a warden and/or read the Hunting synopsis you should have gotten with your license. Actually if they are continually driving by your tree stand that is also illegal.

Get their license plate number, take a video (if possible), and report this information to Manitoba Conservation or Brandon Police.  
 
Definitely not legal. Hunting is supposed to be about sport. Nothing about this behaviour that represents the idea of sport. It's poaching, and it's definitely not legal.

individuals that meet the criteria may apply for a permit to use a vehicle.  
COPY AND PASTE from hunting guide  
 
disabled Hunters  
A person with a permanent disability who is unable to walk more than 50 metres due to the nature of the disability, or to inordinate pain, harm to health or risk to safety caused by the disability, may be eligible for a permit. This will authorize the use of a vehicle in a GHA in which such vehicle use connected