THE DYING OFF .....of a hunting group
- Thread starter jraab
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Joining a "fish & game", "rod & gun" or "skeet & gun" club will put you in contact with other hunters. Get involved. Don't be pushy. Show maturity. Be personable. Express interest. Opportunities will arise. Choose your potential hunting partners carefully as unfortunately (I've heard) not all are ethical or safe to be around.
Hahahaha my club, which is called the "Port Coquitlam & District HUNTING and Fishing Club" doesn't have a hunting club right now. At least they didn't back in the spring. If someone has started one please let me know!
Start one ?
I'm in the opposite position. My brother in law and his best friend and me are starting out hunting together. They've been going for 3 years now and want me to come because im bush craft handy. Hopefully its the start of a long tradition.
surplusshooter
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I am also in a different situation. My Mom and Dad always hunted in Ontario, however when I was 8 we moved to BC. My parents would continue to hunt in Ontario with my dads brothers and members of the hunting clubs he was a member of, however he gave up his membership to these clubs when I was 14, before I ever got to visit them. I got my licence last year, and find it extremely difficult to get my dad to come out with me, but luckily enough his brother is always willing to go hunting on the weekends now that I am in Ontario for part of the fall. Makes a big difference going out with someone you know is an experienced hunter, even if you don't get anything you still have a great time with comradery and through learning more. It is also great getting to hear the old stories of when the whole family would hunt together, including my grandmother, who could outshoot my Grandpa with a shotgun, despite the fact he was Ontario provincial Champion marksmen in 1945. Many of my friends in BC are getting into hunting as well. It all depends on who you hang out with as to whether or not you can make a hunting camp with your buddies and or family. I am hoping this fall to do some deer hunting with a bunch of buddies on a buddies farm in BC, would be first camp experience. One thing I must say is if your family helped you get into hunting, treasure that more than anything else. My family left it to me to get my hunting and gun licence, so now at 23 I am hunting with my uncle and his 14y son, and it is both of our first waterfowl hunting season. I can't help but wonder how different our family dynamic would be if my dad had done the same with me and my 2 older brothers.
Shocking to me that your Dad moved from Ontario to BC and then only hunted when he went back to Ontario. The opportunities here in BC are absolutely incredible.
You'd be best-served to fully embrace the opportunities here in BC. I can't state that strongly enough.
surplusshooter
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he never really got into deer hunting, always been a bird hunter. I just got him his first real rifle for his 60th birthday this year, an he got a doe tag so we will see how much hunting he does in BC.
There is no problem whatsoever of getting new generation of hunters out there.
From personal experience, and from experience of other like minded people, it is next to impossible to join into established hunting groups.
Perhaps, years ago people were not so selfish and self centered and were more willing to take on new hunters with them and give them a chance.
From personal experience, and from experience of other like minded people, it is next to impossible to join into established hunting groups.
Perhaps, years ago people were not so selfish and self centered and were more willing to take on new hunters with them and give them a chance.
every year I post pics of my successes in the field.... and at the same time, I have repeatedly offered myself as a mentor to new hunters here in BC.... the years go by and not one new hunter has taken me up on the offer..... something always comes up LOL
not that I haven't mentored any new hunters in the past few years, a few in fact, just none from CGN hehehe
not that I haven't mentored any new hunters in the past few years, a few in fact, just none from CGN hehehe
I didn't even read the replies to this thread, the topic hits home quite hard for me. I hope what I am about to type doesn't generate any discord or heated discussions, I just want people to understand how important it is to live every moment with your "crew" like life itself depends upon it.
I hunted with my father and many friends, we had a great group of fun, ethical, caring, wise, knowledgable and giving hard working men. The camp was something that was planned all year. I am not going to use any names but there was one dynamic individual that really held us all together, a very close friend of my Dads. He passed a little more than ten years ago and things kind of went quiet regarding our group and how lively and large our camp was. It was a hard time. But every year I would still make camp and my father would be there, memories and experiences galore. The last 5 years my son who is now 11 has been a major part of the whole experience. Last year my little man did more work retrieving three moose I harvested than most hunting partners I have ever hunted with, his grandpa was proud to say the least.
This year I lost my best friend, my mentor, my partner in crime, my father. Season is open now and I can't seem to find the ambition, drive, energy, or desire for what once was. Except for my son.
I have a different style when it comes to hunting ban most people I know around here. Most drive around and shoot from a road, or out the window, and to me that is shooting, not hunting. I find it very hard to find people of my age, or younger, I'm 44 now, that actually prefer "hunting". As in get away from any roads, get out on foot or in a canoe, and HUNT!! There is no greater reward than learning your games habits, areas, and either stalking or calling or what have you. Many many times I have just played with moose or deer watching their reactions to my own actions and learning from it or just enjoying the experience for what it is.
Those of you that still have those mentors, fathers, partners, or whoever it may be that you spend this time of year with, enjoy it and do not take a single minute for granted.
Three years ago back surgery left me not quite capable of what I was used to, a hard life of work and play can and will take its toll. The company I moved back home to work for went bankrupt, and I was in no position to take any sort of labour type work. Since that time I have lost my house, my wife to divorce, my stepdad passed in Africa, who helped make me a better person, my grandfather, three uncles, a best friend to a heart attack, another close friend in a freak hunting accident, and the hardest of all, my dad.... I could go on but I am not really posting this this to complain. I am just broke, financially and well, my soul has felt broke too. It's my son that keeps my head above water these days.
I would ask that if any of you have the opportunity to pass on or share our love of this life, sport, or whatever you feel it should be called, that you do not pass on the opportunity.
"It's not dyin I'm talkin about!! It's livin!" - Augustus McRae.
I hunted with my father and many friends, we had a great group of fun, ethical, caring, wise, knowledgable and giving hard working men. The camp was something that was planned all year. I am not going to use any names but there was one dynamic individual that really held us all together, a very close friend of my Dads. He passed a little more than ten years ago and things kind of went quiet regarding our group and how lively and large our camp was. It was a hard time. But every year I would still make camp and my father would be there, memories and experiences galore. The last 5 years my son who is now 11 has been a major part of the whole experience. Last year my little man did more work retrieving three moose I harvested than most hunting partners I have ever hunted with, his grandpa was proud to say the least.
This year I lost my best friend, my mentor, my partner in crime, my father. Season is open now and I can't seem to find the ambition, drive, energy, or desire for what once was. Except for my son.
I have a different style when it comes to hunting ban most people I know around here. Most drive around and shoot from a road, or out the window, and to me that is shooting, not hunting. I find it very hard to find people of my age, or younger, I'm 44 now, that actually prefer "hunting". As in get away from any roads, get out on foot or in a canoe, and HUNT!! There is no greater reward than learning your games habits, areas, and either stalking or calling or what have you. Many many times I have just played with moose or deer watching their reactions to my own actions and learning from it or just enjoying the experience for what it is.
Those of you that still have those mentors, fathers, partners, or whoever it may be that you spend this time of year with, enjoy it and do not take a single minute for granted.
Three years ago back surgery left me not quite capable of what I was used to, a hard life of work and play can and will take its toll. The company I moved back home to work for went bankrupt, and I was in no position to take any sort of labour type work. Since that time I have lost my house, my wife to divorce, my stepdad passed in Africa, who helped make me a better person, my grandfather, three uncles, a best friend to a heart attack, another close friend in a freak hunting accident, and the hardest of all, my dad.... I could go on but I am not really posting this this to complain. I am just broke, financially and well, my soul has felt broke too. It's my son that keeps my head above water these days.
I would ask that if any of you have the opportunity to pass on or share our love of this life, sport, or whatever you feel it should be called, that you do not pass on the opportunity.
"It's not dyin I'm talkin about!! It's livin!" - Augustus McRae.
It is dead in our group and family
For just shy of 100 years we had a nice hunting camp and family had 3 camps with in eye sight of ours
I am talking small homes here LOL
Opening day there would be easily 20 guys and normally 30 on a weekend
I remember going there as a small boy as did my dad with his father who saved two weeks of his vacation just for deer hunting every year.
We would have a deer pole and it would be nothing to have a dozen deer hanging sometimes
Well today all of the camps are gone, my 90 year old aunt owns the land which she is clear cutting and selling the hardwood and pulp off it and no one has hunted there for at least 8 years
90% of the guys I remember at the camp are either dead or gave up hunting when the registry came into effect and have no plans of returning
There are 9 young boys in our family between my brothers and sisters and NONE of them even touch a gun let alone hunt
I remember 4 years ago my daughter did a paper in grade 12 about hunting and target shooting and out of 258 class mates only 4 yes 4 even wanted to try either one
In fact when I pass my gun collection will be sold since not one family member wants them and my buds will probally be dead with me
So sad but true
Cheers
For just shy of 100 years we had a nice hunting camp and family had 3 camps with in eye sight of ours
I am talking small homes here LOL
Opening day there would be easily 20 guys and normally 30 on a weekend
I remember going there as a small boy as did my dad with his father who saved two weeks of his vacation just for deer hunting every year.
We would have a deer pole and it would be nothing to have a dozen deer hanging sometimes
Well today all of the camps are gone, my 90 year old aunt owns the land which she is clear cutting and selling the hardwood and pulp off it and no one has hunted there for at least 8 years
90% of the guys I remember at the camp are either dead or gave up hunting when the registry came into effect and have no plans of returning
There are 9 young boys in our family between my brothers and sisters and NONE of them even touch a gun let alone hunt
I remember 4 years ago my daughter did a paper in grade 12 about hunting and target shooting and out of 258 class mates only 4 yes 4 even wanted to try either one
In fact when I pass my gun collection will be sold since not one family member wants them and my buds will probally be dead with me
So sad but true
Cheers
Yep. I would have never believed it 30 years ago. What is even more shocking to me. Is two of my brothers and their boys are state side and even there they have stopped hunting. Kids are sure different today
Cheers
