Flat lander heading for BC Hills(2.0)

Wear something orange.. hat,gloves or tougue at least.... I could see buddy 2km down the clear cut with orange on
This is B.C. !! Every hunter isn't straight and SOBER...... And think of the older hunters with bad eyes???
Aren't animals color blind???
 
Here are a couple pictures of camp and the area we were hunting in.



Moose track soup


One of the many cut lines we traveled



Bad Omen



No pink tootoo's...If the brother in law said we were hunting at broke back mountain I would have declined his offer.
 
'Boo said:
If you are a flat-lander heading to Dawson Creek looking for mountains you will be disappointed. ;) LoL

BTW, Whatever works for you in Manitoba will work just as well in BC.
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Tumbler Ridge is close to DC and often the two places are referred to as the same place. Beautiful mountains for hunting and pretty fair game area.
 
Russ said:
Here are a couple pictures of camp and the area we were hunting in.



Moose track soup


One of the many cut lines we traveled



Bad Omen



No pink tootoo's...If the brother in law said we were hunting at broke back mountain I would have declined his offer.
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OK, here is the straight goods.
Forget everything else, all the minor details and between now and when you go, concentrate on learning a cow moose call. End of Sept. is past prime moose calling date, which is good. For the past two weeks the bull moose will be eating like silly to make up for their starvation time during the prime calling time. This means they will have rep laced a lot of fat they lost and the meat will not only be fatter, but will taste great.
A good cow moose call will bring those bulls from the next county.
It looks to me like you are in excellent moose habitat, but I have a feeling you are wasting it by being caught up in the often fruitless cut line hunting craze. Just get a good calling spot and at daylight be ready to call. And don't pay any attention to these TV guys who call steady.
Make one call, look at your watch and wait five minutes before you call again. Nest time wait fifteen minutes.
 
Kamlooky, do you remember once when you were in my man cave, I picked up my home made, beat up birch bark horn, made one bull call and you said, "is that it and I said yep and put the horn down?
 
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Here are a few places we found for moose...This was well off the beat'n path. No other quad tracks or foot prints, the cut lines were well over grown.

 
H4831 said:
Kamlooky, do you remember once when you were in my man cave, I picked up my home made, beat up birch bark horn, made one bull call and you said, "is that it and I said yep and put the horn down?
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Yes and I've tried making them.
No such luck.

Russ, you need a way to float.
Never know where or on what side of the H2O they will show up.
Bring some kind of floating landing strip.
Even a couple 16" tire tubes.
 
In BC the prime time for hunting moose in the small lakes and sloughs is August. They like to put their head down in about two feet of water and eat lily pad roots on swampy shores. The roots from big patches of lily pads will grow to three inches across and a moose will pull out a root as long as six feet, or even longer. In some lakes and some conditions they will feed in a little lake until freeze up.
Generally speaking, moose feeding in little lakes doesn't jibe with calling season.

Editing the post to point out that little lakes that have good lily pad crops will have moose paths wore in the ground up to a foot deep, all pointing to the lake. From the air it resembles the spokes on a wheel.

Taking another look at your pictures and I see no lilly pads at your lakes, at all.
There is nothing at those lakes for moose to feed on, so moose won't come to those lakes.
 
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Gatehouse said:
Could be hot or could be snow at that latitude. One thing about much of BC is that weather can be anything and change to anything within hours. No silly hunter orange laws, thankfully! Shots can go from 0-400 yds. I don't know many BC hunters that on;y plan on 100 yard shots. Even blacktail hunting in thick coastal jungle I've made shots of 300+ yards at times.
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Pretty well sums it up, and unless you're going a ways from Dawson Creek, it's going to look like home. There are coulees and river valleys but it can pass for the plains. Good moose country if you get a good ways off the beaten track. Try and talk your host into driving four to six hours past Fort Nelson, then you're getting into the Serengeti of the North as National Geographic rightly dubs it.
 
Well, The trip is getting closer and the list of things to bring are getting checked off....Plan to bring a Zodiac and maybe hunt down along the Moberly River. Has to be moose along it. I'll look for lily pads with big black things standing in them and hunt there. It will be a good time.

Russ...
 
I'd take the 280 as a backup rifle and try to work up a load with 140gr TSX or NPTs. It sounds like you're geared up for quite the expedition. Hope you bring the freezer home full.
 
Russ said:
What's the weather like at the end of Sept.? Guessing there is no rule on hunter orange...Is 100yards or less the average shot. I know my inlaw will answer all my questions...Just getting a head start.

Russ...
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Ya no hunter orange rule. People in BC seem to know what they are shooting at before they pull the trigger. Leave the Brno at home, way to much gun..lol The .280 might be good for wolves, lots of wolves around here, please shoot on sight!! Sept -Oct is a good time, colder weather setting in and moose/elk starting to move more. Dress warm..Saw seven bull moose yesterday while out working in the patch.. you'll have fun, good luck!
 
Russ said:
Well, The trip is getting closer and the list of things to bring are getting checked off....Plan to bring a Zodiac and maybe hunt down along the Moberly River. Has to be moose along it. I'll look for lily pads with big black things standing in them and hunt there. It will be a good time.

Russ...
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End Sept-Oct there wont be any lilly pads or unfrozen water other than the big or faster moving rivers
 
Pretty dry year up there this year....water sources will be your friend. We just got back from 4 days up there, pulled two bulls before the cooler unit in our trailer crapped out and we bailed early to ensure we lost no meat. Early-mid-late season....logging blocks will produce moose all season long. Fresher blocks with low growth that allows the sun in to get the fresh greens growing is best. Hunt all day, we have shot way too many moose between 11:00-2:00 to be just luck, you will often catch them travelling for a drink, or moving to a staging area for the evening feed at this time.

Good Luck!
Chris
 
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