So, in the end, how did Covid 19 affect your hunt?

John Y Cannuck

John Y Cannuck

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For our moose camp, nobody shook hands before the initial ATV train to camp, but once in camp, Covid was pretty much forgotten, and it was business as usual, we worked as a team. Unsuccessful, but still a great time, and I doubt any of us liked the return to the covid world much, although return to our families was looked forward to.

My deer hunt is from home, so no changes there.

Apparently there was a moose camp where all the guys camped out in tents and only the cook stayed in the cabin, and one camp didn't go at all. (I presume they had no adult tag)

How did it, or didn't it affect your hunt?
 
It was really weird. I was trying to go about my usual business but some of the deer kept coming up to me and chastising me for not wearing a mask. Once I finally got one it was a real b*tch skinning it from 6ft away. The worst part was sanitizing all the meat.




I do a lot of acid when I hunt.
 
One of the 3 guys in our camp didn't show up due to his concerns about COVID, the other guy brought his son this year.

Otherwise it was business as usual.

Ryan
 
Not a lot. The drive up was different as we usually stop at Epps to browse a bit but this year we drove on by. Fast food take outs instead of sitting down for a meal. Reaching for the mask at every fuel stop and sanitizing hands before getting back in the truck became second nature. Once in the bivouac covid was more or less forgotten. Hunter numbers seemed to be down further in the bush but ATV's were still present on the roads and trails near where you were sitting. They were mostly courteous but a couple not so much.
We did however get a moose.
 
Cost me a deer hunt last year. Guys We go with have kids there school got hit with an outbreak so they backed out,plan b stay with an old friend where we go nope he was leery my father is 83 lives with us so cancelled .Too bad first time in 20 years and have a new custom wanted to take. Not worth the risk imho ,but did do a lot more pheasant and duck hunting last year than I have .Most pheasants I have bagged ever so guess there was a bit of a trade off.
 
Not much impact. We made sure to all be healthy and the folks who could got tested shortly before we left for the trip. No masks between ourselves and we all ate together in camp, as usual. We understood that if someone got sick somehow that the others would probably also get sick, and we were fine with that. It boiled down to personal risk management...

Edit: I was describing above my yearly moose hunting trip to the province of Qc. I usually take the opportunity to visit my elderly parents in Eastern Ontario before returning to Calgary but did not this year. I did not want to take the chance to pass the virus to them...

I personally know two persons who got the virus, both healthy men in their mid-40s or early 50s. One got severe headaches, fevers, body pains and general weakness. Now doing ok and back to work. The second got kidney failure, pneumonia and almost died. Spent time in the ICU three times and is now recovering at home, with oxygen assistance... Yes, the odds are relatively low to catch something but this virus is no joke. Manage risks as you see fit, but you can’t be sure of how your body will react until you get infected. Personally, I would rather be prudent and limit the risks of passing it to someone more vulnerable than I...
 
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Had planned for my little nephew's first hunt. Had a reservation for a private game reserve all planned out. It got canceled because its status went red in its area . My nephew was bummed out and I wasn't all that happy ether. I did get refunded . The silver lining was that I got to pass some good times getting him comfortable shooting ( 308) and sighted in . Well all truth be told it did give me a good excuse to acquire a couple of new rifles and kit . Hopefully he will be still interested next fall .
 
1963beretta said:
Pelee island cancelled the pheasant hunts in 2020, so that was a bummer. Other than that, COVID had no impact on my hunting season
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There's a farm near me that, as rumour has it, supplies Pelee Island with their birds for the hunt. They had tons of birds in the enclosures and there was still a bunch there a few weeks ago.

I wonder what they did with the birds?
 
The Taltan used Covid as an excuse to blockade access to our limited entry draw area. So that hunt had to be canceled, but my partner and I went elk hunting instead. I was really looking forward to the moose hunt, draws don’t come along all that often....
 
No effect on my hunting whatsoever. Remote hunt for elk, and farm hunt for deer. Alone most of the time
except on the elk hunt....had one partner [Friend for 30+ years] Dave.
 
It didn't really have much of an impact on my hunting. I did do mostly day hunts this year but still managed to fill my mule deer tag and helped my hunting buddy get his bull elk.
 
It didn't change anything in our group as we all have our own homes and camp. But in an area where we always seen at least 3-4 moose during the week, nothing was seen this fall. It seems the moose are practicing distancing a lot better than humans.....
 
No effect on my hunting this year except for the Natives trying to shut everything down.

I don't hunt in big groups though, mostly solo or with one other person.
 
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