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My trip to Canada
16 October 2005, 11:30
TOP_PREDATORMy trip to Canada
I posted my photos here as i think they will be of more interest to Australian/New zealand members than the guys on Canadian forum.I spent a week in the bush with two Canadian mates one of them got a limited draw TAG for grizzly bear.I got a non-resident alien hunting licence to hunt small game.Here is a rough Grouse

i shot a heap of them and they are very good eating.Here is a spruce Grouse

We saw a few Moose here is a cow

Base camp and the view from our camp

here is a mate with a black bear
"Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill
16 October 2005, 11:43
BushchookShock , horror ! Is that a pump action shotgun with a pistol grip ?
The next knock on your door will probably be the federal police . Little Johnny Eyebrows will want you arrested on suspicion of terrorism .

The hunting imperative was part of every man's soul; some denied or suppressed it, others diverted it into less blatantly violent avenues of expression, wielding clubs on the golf course or racquets on the court, substituting a little white ball for the prey of flesh and blood.
Wilbur Smith
16 October 2005, 18:40
scruffyDid your amigo have any luck with the griz ? Ruff grouse are fabulous eating as you know ... I didn't notice you commenting on eating spruce grouse ?

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that funky shotgun was primarily for feeling better when things go bump in the night outside the tent in the wilderness ...

16 October 2005, 21:20
FjoldBrilliant James! Typical Kiwi understatement. I hope you had fun.
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite
17 October 2005, 03:10
TOP_PREDATORSpruce Grouse that is one strong tasting bird

The shotgun is the camp gun and is loaded with slugs most of the time.No Grizzly but we got very close,on one of the islands in the river we found wet foot prints on the stones must have missed him by just a few minutes.Some Moose hunters up the road had a grizzly come into camp at night and try and steal one of their Moose.Here is a grizzly foot print

And a wolf
"Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill
17 October 2005, 04:06
<JOHAN>James
Great pictures! Looks like nice adventure in Canada.
What's the size of that black bear?
Cheers

/JOHAN
17 October 2005, 05:55
dogcatThat is one heck of a grouse gun. The side by side boys will be after you. Way to go!!!!!