We had very warm weather during the elk rut but I still managed to take a bull.Two days later I took a 4x5 mule deer.I still have three hunts to go and am hoping for a little snow in november.How has your season been and how much hunting is still on your schedule for this season?

Because of a 4 days on 3 days off work schedual, I have been out hunting 2-3 days per week since September 3rd, with a few half day hunts thrown in for good measure.
My sheep and Elk hunting though not overly sucessful has been great. Have seen more bulls and rams this year then any that I can remember. Unfortunetly the Elk rut was very poor this year, and I was unable to kill a good bull. I have a draw in 406 and I think that I still stand a pritty good chance of getting one in November.
In the middle of September I killed a whitetail doe with a 40 yard bow shot. The only other critters I have harvested this year are a mess of Hungarian partridge, which seem to be all over the place this year out on the prarie.
This thursday I am readed for the mountains again for one last shot at a good ram. Hopefully things will finally click.

weidmannsheil,

My season is going too fast!!

I took a small mulie early for the freezer and now I'm concentraiting on a wall hanger or two. I've spent 23 nights in the woods with a few stays in a motel. I've had some morning hunts from my house also. I'm setting a wall tent up for Nov and am not leaving til my Butterbean buck is down, or the season ends.

I've been on a number of hunts...

1 black bear

1 grizzly

1 mulie

All of them have been buddies tags.

Lots of opportunities for smaller bucks.

About 25 days in the sleeping bag, more to come

Gates

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Did I say 23, I meant 26!

Sorry, I meant to say 27!!

My season has SUCKED, and it is all-too-rapidly passing by.

Basically, I haven't been able to hunt at all yet this season. A few hours of "road hunting" for chicken is the sum total of my hunting this year.

Reasons:
- New job that has taken way too much time,
- Girlfriend is 1280 kms away - have to use up weekends etc, just to visit every few weeks,
- Dad has a bison ranch and had an appendectomy a few weeks ago - needs help getting his hay in, fixing fences, rounding up buffalo, catching escapies that knocked down his fence etc.
- New house that requires tonnes of work to been done to it before winter (and my dog doesn't provide much help, so I am on my own).

As a result, I have not been a very happy camper this season. This is also why I have adopted the slogan in my signature line. I know next season will be better.

Hey, it feels better to have vented a little. Thanks for listening, friends.

Canuck

Big game hasn't even started for me, Nov. 6th where I'm going.

I have had a good waterfowl season so far and hopefully I will have a few good pheasent hunts mixed in with my deerhunting.

Brett

Been rather interesting and lots of fun. Whacked a bunch of critters in Uruguay ... mostly winged - but a few on four legs, got a moose and a bear out North west and just whacked a swan down in ol' Montana .. And our deer hunting starts hot and heavy in about ten days .. and I think that I have a chance at a good mulie - a varmint that I have never taken. (Big one, that is ..) Also did a bit of duck and partridge season and I really hope to get a goose sometime .. Antelope doe this Saturday ... I may or may not fill that one, however ...

I cut my mule deer tag on opening day. My daughter shot her first mulie a week later so we are both done hunting them until the November 1st trophy season. I have been chasing a whitetail buck for the last couple of weeks but so far he is a little smarter than me which is not too hard to do anyways! LoL

Waterfowl hunting has been pretty good and I have been able to put a few big mallards and some pintails in the cooler. Geese are on the agenda for this coming weekend so hopefully I can hang a few of those too.

Here is a picture of my daughter's first deer. while not a monster this 2 point was a trophy none the less. BTW to give you an idea of the size of out BC interior mule deer this 'little' guy weighed in at close to 250 pounds live.

stubblejumper,
you had to ask.

My season is done. It has been cut short. No, I did not get into trouble with the game cops.
My "X!" favorite horse is responsible. @%$&*!

Anyways, check out the story I wrote on the BigGame forum. 'Terrible Goat hunt'

It is nice to hear about your season,

Daryl

Well, I've gotten 56 days in the sleeping bag, our clients bagged 112 animals, and the caribou migration hasn't really started (warm fall, still no snow, and super-low barometer). Now finally back to civilization for a couple of weeks, then it's off again for a quicky moose hunt, and then it's "Alberta bound" for whatever .....maybe a quick look around in Saskatchewan, keep being invited since they're "overrun" with good mulies!

Everything's late this fall in the north, the ducklings are just starting to fly, the caribou are just out of velvet, the rut hasn't started.

Now, the gov't has issued the results of their latest caribou count and claim they're down 200,000 animals! Last time this happened they were forced to recount and "discovered" an additional 300,000. They'd better start counting again fast or the diamond mines and resident hunters will be blamed! ......Life & politics in the North! ~Arctic~

stubblejumper....will be heading up to Alberta in about a month ...will let you know then

Saw no sheep, had one client for moose, saw some mule does, hope to see some males next month, shot three ducks, didn't get out nearly enough, will try to remedy in November. Had to spend some time fixing up an old truck I bought.

Did I mention I got a wolf this spring? That kinda made the season! ;-) Still to come...a mule deer buck, a whitetail doe, either would be fine for the freezer...maybe bison in Febr/March...

For a first season in Canada, not too bad, I'm learning a lot, but not fast enough.

Frans

As usual I haven't killed anything, seldom do, too fussy.I been out just about every night till dark since the first of the season lookin for that big whitetail to take with my bow. Missed a large buck the 4th night of the season. mis-judged the distance. He was a beauty and have seen him 5 times since just not close enough. Have had quite a few opportunities to take some other nice bucks but after the big one I'm spoiled. Haven't even picked up the rifle yet.

Hey Gatehouse, did you go hunting sheep with your friend that had the draw in 3-17??

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Nice to hear so many interesting hunting stories. Mine is, that this yr., it was the shortest hunt of my life. Shot a 200lb. black bear within 30 min. of season opening. @ 5pm. it was cut & wrapped & in the freezer. Sort of helps make up for the times we spend days & more working for very little, but the downside is that I didn't get as much time in the bush as I like to. I've always said that "hunting, fishing & canoeing were just excuses to be there" I enjoyed it a little extra though because I used a 71/84 mauser that has a lot of sentimental value for me & a homecast boolit. Ron.D

Not a Canadian, but just back from Quebec with my Canuck friend Rockhead, hunting with his Quebec-resident father. Up north of Swisha, or Rapides des Joachims. No moose. It's been a good area, but heavy logging and accompanying road building is disrupting things. Should be great again in a year or two. -Fred

So far a real good season, I had a buck and 2 anterless muledeer tags and got all 3 in muzzle loading season. 1 nice doe opening morning , a real good buck that same evening and a smaller freezer doe the second week. Now I think I'll save the whitetail tag for rifle season,a nice buck maybe???

Season kind of slow til this morning.Went out for non-trophy sheep because weather is supposed to turn a little ugly tonite and the season ends on the 31st.Hunted the hard rock about an hour west of home.Took a nice big ewe at about 35 yards.Dead on the spot but mighty steep there and she tumbled downhill almost 60 yards.About 900 yards back to the truck, some of it over a real nasty run of deadfall.It is skinned and in the shed and I just had a hot soak in the tub to take some of the sting out of this ole back.Muley opens up on Saturday close to home ,so very happy to have this sheep out of the way.

where abouts did you kill that ewe? Back in the sheeP?

Took the sheep off of Powderface trail above Canyon Creek in 406 B.

Seven moose seen, no tags

Deer is next week, hopefully will be better!

Season is going great....I've been on a couple good goose hunts so far, some bad...but that's how it goes. Got a black bear this past Sept with my new 7saum, which was exciting, and I got my 3rd best mule deer eva 2 weeks ago And I still got another month of whitetail hunting, then it's coyotes.....

Got a barely-old-enough-to-have-antlers moose on the Muskwa River...shot it with my new 375-338 Taylor. Might go deer hunting down south in Ft.St.John, we'll see...

Two successful duck hunts so far.

Deer season starts on Monday and I will go up to the camp to-morrow to get settled in. Weather forecast is rain for opening day.

Danny Boy