Best Province for a Hunter

Manitoba is the best.


Lots and lots of crown land, lots of lakes/rivers, good access, elk, deer, bear, moose, migratory and upland bird.

Cheap land to buy.

Low population density.

Cheap outfitters- well under 2 grand for week hunt, unguided includes boats, gas, cabin and float plane ride.


Winters really suck!
 
Well for me personally it's Newfoundland and Labrador the health care can't be beat cuz mostly everything is covered by medical care plan that you don't pay for its funded by the government as well as education grade school and high schools paid but we have moose we have ducks we're all sorts of migratory birds where Upland birds and we have a little furry critters running around you can snipe with the 22
 
jmichelin84 said:
Well for me personally it's Newfoundland and Labrador the health care can't be beat cuz mostly everything is covered by medical care plan that you don't pay for its funded by the government as well as education grade school and high schools paid but we have moose we have ducks we're all sorts of migratory birds where Upland birds and we have a little furry critters running around you can snipe with the 22
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That’s meant to be a joke, right?
 
It would be the Yukon for me, milder winters in the south, better diversity of game. Otherwise I'll stay put, northern Manitoba is pretty good . . . and we're on the coast, but then so is every province and territory except Saskatchewan and Alberta.
 
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Not much going on here in Ont. The odd rabbit, a few grouse, some deer kicking around here and there, moose are scarce now, tags in the lottery for them even scarcer. The best place for hunting is any place you can find where there is enough game to your liking to keep you entertained without some a$$hole, or group of a$$holes giving you a hard time in the process. Finding your nitch in this country and keeping your mouth shut as to where it is seems to be the trick in this day and age.
 
mrgoat said:
Not much going on here in Ont. The odd rabbit, a few grouse, some deer kicking around here and there...
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Plenty of deer if you know where to go, good grouse as well. Tons of bears. Went out one weekend near Marathon and saw 15 yogis in a 20km stretch of back road.
 
MDR said:
Plenty of deer if you know where to go, good grouse as well. Tons of bears. Went out one weekend near Marathon and saw 15 yogis in a 20km stretch of back road.
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I guess you missed the part of my post about keeping your mouth shut when you find a good spot with game. Now that you have highlighted the Marathon area on the internet as being a good spot to bear hunt I hope you enjoy the attention it may bring.
 
mrgoat said:
I guess you missed the part of my post about keeping your mouth shut when you find a good spot with game. Now that you have highlighted the Marathon area on the internet as being a good spot to bear hunt I hope you enjoy the attention it may bring.
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Good point - The best way to ruin a good spot or have the farmer eventually post his land "No Hunting" is to broadcast it to everyone.

It's kind of a tricky situation - on the one hand you want to encourage hunting and a good way to do that is to point the way to a good area - on the other hand it's a good way to eventually ruin the area due to either over use or some %$# ruining it for everyone.
 
mrgoat said:
I guess you missed the part of my post about keeping your mouth shut when you find a good spot with game. Now that you have highlighted the Marathon area on the internet as being a good spot to bear hunt I hope you enjoy the attention it may bring.
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You could say the same of any town northwest of Sudbury. Notice I never did offer coordinates or draw a map, only a jumping off point. Plenty of backroads/logging roads in that area to choose from. I could also say there is good fishing towards Atikokan, good luck figuring out which lake. If you are in the area and want to keep some of Ontario's 100,000+ bears safe, I apologize. I was in the area 5 years ago so things may have changed since then.
 
Species and subspecies in BC off the knuckle of my head, you’ll have to travel extensively to see all these they’re spread between the vastly varying environments of BC, and it should be remembered BC is the size of Ontario. There’s desert with cactus and rattlesnakes, ranging to glaciers and volcanoes, to true rainforest, boreal forest, to maritime... every environment but true arctic. There are few places on Earth you can see so many different environments and animals in a four hour bushplane flight.

Elk,

Roosevelt Elk
Rocky Mountain Elk

Caribou,

Woodland (Boreal) Caribou
Mountain Caribou
Northern Caribou

Moose,

Shiras Moose
Canada Moose
Alaska-Yukon Moose

Deer,

Whitetail Deer
Blacktail Deer
Sitka Blacktail Deer
Mule Deer
Fallow Deer

Bison

Wood Bison
Plains Bison

Bears

Black Bear
Grizzly Bear, Coastal (Brown), Boreal & Mountain (hunt closed last fall by NDP)

Cats

Cougar
Lynx
Bobcat

Sheep

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
California Bighorn Sheep
Dahl Sheep
Stone Sheep
Fannin Sheep

Goat

Rocky Mountain & Coastal Mountain Goat

Canines

Wolf
Coyote
Fox

Other

Wolverine
Wild pig

Birds

Way too many to list like most of the country, but three types of grouse, countless geese varieties and ducks, Turkey, doves, yada yada.


Downsides?

High cost of living
Limited access on the cheap due to the mountains
No Pronghorn
Politics aren’t for all
No giant whitetails though they’re viewed as a secondary species in most of BC, perhaps for that reason
 
Good post, but I don’t think there’s a season for woods bison, and I can think of four types of grouse off the top of my head. Ruffed, spruce, blue, and sharp tail. Can we hunt fox without a trappers license?
 
desjardo said:
Saskatchewan hunting is garbage.
Alberta and BC are better.
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Yup. Move along, not worth stopping at all. But it did remind me of this story....

The Pope was taking a tour of Canada in his Pope-mobile and was passing through Saskatchewan, trying to appease everyone with a gripe against the Church. He was feeling a little overwhelmed with all the whining, when he heard a frantic commotion in a pine bluff at the side of the highway. As he got closer he found a long haired man in Patagonia shorts, sandals and an old “Vote Bob Rae” T-shirt. The man was screaming and struggling frantically, thrashing all about trying to free himself from the grasp of a 450 pound black bear.

As the Pope watched in horror, a farmer that was combining in the next field with his John Deere (which proudly sported a “Western Separation” bumper sticker) and his farm hand in a grain truck raced over and shot the bear dead.

A third man in his Dodge pickup drove over and jumped out wearing a “Make Trudeau a Drama Teacher Again!” shirt. He gently pulled the injured man out from under the bear and placed him in the front of the pickup. The farmer and the grain truck driver, who could now be seen wearing a “You Get my Guns Barrel First, and Over my Dead Body!!” hat and “We Don’t Want your Lefty Handouts!!” shirt, pulled the bear into the back of the truck.

The Pope was so impressed by this! He had heard that Westerners didn’t take well to socialists, and was surprised that they got together to save such an obvious hippy. “I had heard there was great animosity in the West dating back to the National Energy Program and the Trudeau Salute, but now I’ve seen with my own eyes that this is not true, and that Canada is a truly blessed place to live!!” With that the Pope drove off in his Pope-mobile, eager to tell the story.

As he pulled away, the farm hand asked, “Who was that guy?”. “That was the Pope” the Dodge driver replied. “It’s reported he has wisdom and insight blessed by the Lord himself.”

“Well,” the farmer said, “he may have been blessed for his wisdom, but he don’t know crap about bear hunting in Saskatchewan!”

“By the way, is the bait still alive or do we have to go back to Ontario and get another one??”
 
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There are positives and negatives about hunting in each Province.
BC has some great hunting and the most varied habitat. BC also has crowded hunting in the best habitats in the South of the Province, where it is sometimes hard to find a place to yourself. BC also has a strong and vocal anti-hunter minority that has a significant political influence.
Saskatchewan has some detractors, and some tongue-in-cheek negatives but the Province has an abundance of game animals, acknowledging the recent recovery from winter kill of deer. The Southern half of the Province is highly modified by farming activity, but the increase in Moose and Elk populations in the farmland recently, is astonishing. Not surprisingly, there is strong competition for Moose and Elk tags in the draw.
Having spent all my young life in BC, I miss the mountain hunting, but my days of mountain hunting are pretty much in the past since I am an old guy.
The hunting that has impressed me are Deer and Sharptail grouse hunting in the Sandhills of Saskatchewan, a true desert hunting experience. There is no non-Resident opportunity for Mule Deer. Whitetail opportunities for non-residents are limited.
Most impressive to me in Saskatchewan is Migratory Bird hunting. I an not a prolific shooter as a Goose and Duck hunter, but we have the opportunity. Having a hundred thousand Geese in the sky and over your decoys has to be one of the most outstanding experiences of hunting in Canada.
 
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