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Is it really that difficult to hunt in BC???
I have been looking to buy a place in BC which I would want to hunt from - I am from Alberta in the Calgary area - where access is a big issue and we are mountain park locked.

I looked on the BC website - and as a non-resident - I would need to be accompanied by someone in BC with a permit to accompany.

Even for little deer...? What if I don't know anybody in BC?

K
 
All non-resident hunters wishing to hunt big game in the province of British Columbia must be accompanied by a registered guide outfitter or accompanied by a resident who holds a Permit to Accompany.

All non-resident hunters wishing to hunt small game may do so without the being accompanied by a guide outfitter or a resident who holds a Permit to Accompany. You must fill out an application [PDF 155KB] and mail it to anyone of the address on the back of the application or to the Fish and Wildlife Branch, along with your payment.
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http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/wildlife/hunting/non_resident/#Intro

fle### said:
What if I don't know anybody in BC?
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Then you need to hire an outfitter. Luckily there is a good one who posts regularly on this board.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but Alberta is the same way, except it's a "Hunter Host" that's required.
 
fle### said:
Is it really that difficult to hunt in BC???
I have been looking to buy a place in BC which I would want to hunt from - I am from Alberta in the Calgary area - where access is a big issue and we are mountain park locked.

I looked on the BC website - and as a non-resident - I would need to be accompanied by someone in BC with a permit to accompany.

Even for little deer...? What if I don't know anybody in BC?

K
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become a resident ....... otherwise you are stuck with non-resident status .

also , don't forget to be respectful of the locals that live in the area ...... I've seen too many people with alberta plates on their vehicles with "attitude " .... it stands out like a sore thumb .
 
fle### said:
Is it really that difficult to hunt in BC???
I have been looking to buy a place in BC which I would want to hunt from - I am from Alberta in the Calgary area - where access is a big issue and we are mountain park locked.

I looked on the BC website - and as a non-resident - I would need to be accompanied by someone in BC with a permit to accompany.

Even for little deer...? What if I don't know anybody in BC?

K
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Yes, even for little deer. Any size deer actually.
 
The BC Minster for Energy, Mines, and Resources, Bill Bennett, owns a guide outfitting company. Need I say more? It's also why the game allotment for guides is going up by 10%
 
I just saw the part about Calgary... There is plenty of land around there to hunt. I go out with my uncle and we have access to 18,000 acres of private land (multiple farms and land owners). It is just a case of boots on the ground, man. Also, there is tonnes of public land within an hour of Calgary.
 
boren said:
If you buy a place in bc don't that make you a resident?
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Your primary residence has to be in BC and you have to spend more than six months of the year here. Clayton Stoner hung himself on the latter due to his NHL commitments, may be a BC boy and own a house here but didn't spend the required six months a year.

And indeed, you need an outfitter or permit to accompany for anything above small game. It also has to be the outfitter for the area you want to hunt, as outfitters are restricted to specific territories. Long story short if you want to casually hunt here, you have to live here.
 
there is tonnes of public land within an hour of Calgary.
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Pray tell where guy from Ontario.

Unless you want to get shot or runover by a drunk dirtbiker your options are very limited.

Also come on guys; not everyone from Alberta in BC is a ####. I lived in BC for years and I am from Alberta and got tired of putting up with bull#### over it. I understand many Albertan\s drive very aggressively but don't paint us all with the same brush.
 
Albertans don't drive aggressively except when the road straightens out for a stretch. Driving around corners and on hills they drive like scared grannies :).
 
conor_90 said:
Pray tell where guy from Ontario.
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What does being from Ontario have to do with it? My uncle has lived in Alberta since he was 18. I hunted there the last two seasons under the hunter host program. Granted we did hunt mostly private land, but to secure that all we did was ask a few farmers.

You can try looking at the Alberta Recreational Access map website and iHunter. You can also find an area you are interested in and call the county and order a land use map which would show you what land is private. You can also look into which wildland parks allow hunting and here is a list of "natural areas".

conor_90 said:
Unless you want to get shot or runover by a drunk dirtbiker your options are very limited.
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Now you are just sounding picky... ;)
 
I am aware of all these areas; my point stands. The recreational access map is only for private and lease land; if you click on crown land it tells you to go to the hunting regs maps which are some of the worst I've seen.

If you were actually familiar with the wildland parks (I hunt in them exclusively) you would not be singing their praises. I will say one is quite nice when not full of ATVers; not sure if this is the case in fall or not because I've never hunted deer there (next year for sure). It is also located approx 3 hrs from the Calgary/Bow Valley Area

It is made needlessly complicated by bureaucracy in other words. You can spend hours going from Parks sights, to the map, to the hunting regs maps.

As for the Ontario thing; I don't pretend to be an expert on your backyard, why do so for mine? That's all I'm saying, if a bit abrasively. Surely you understand that you are coming across as slightly pedantic; trying to explain to an Albertan hunter how to access hunting land in Alberta?
 
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Fair enough. I was just trying to help.

Crown land within a reasonable drive from Toronto can be pretty crowded so I think that I understand where you are coming from. I was being truthful about the private land out there, we got plenty of access by just asking cattle farmers.

Anyway, I'll bow out because I don't seem to know enough about it.
 
conor_90 said:
Pray tell where guy from Ontario.

Unless you want to get shot or runover by a drunk dirtbiker your options are very limited.

Also come on guys; not everyone from Alberta in BC is a ####. I lived in BC for years and I am from Alberta and got tired of putting up with bull#### over it. I understand many Albertan\s drive very aggressively but don't paint us all with the same brush.
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Maybe not everyone, but certainly any BC'er that has driven the #1 between Golden and Kamloops (West bound on a Friday or East bound on a Sunday) during the summer months is 100% entitled to that opinion. ;)
 
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