Gate, if you want to actually hunt one on Crown land, PM me and I'll give you the details of our hunt, where, when, how, etc. - dan
Bison ranch in Alberta
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To whom? - dan
PM recieved, thanks..
Dan, yes I would liek to hunt one some time, it's just that the BC LEH has so few tags, I could apply forever and not get one.
I think an outfitter route might be the way to go...I'd like a reasonable chance of success. And someone with the gear to deal with a dead one might be nice, too. Backpacking moose out is no fun until you get back to camp where the beer is.... I can only imagine how much fun packing out a bison in deep snow will be!
I hear the "public" Alberta hunts can be tough to find the bison?
Dan, yes I would liek to hunt one some time, it's just that the BC LEH has so few tags, I could apply forever and not get one.
I think an outfitter route might be the way to go...I'd like a reasonable chance of success. And someone with the gear to deal with a dead one might be nice, too. Backpacking moose out is no fun until you get back to camp where the beer is.... I can only imagine how much fun packing out a bison in deep snow will be!
I hear the "public" Alberta hunts can be tough to find the bison?
Really hard I think.
Not an area that can easily be scouted either, and I say whatever scouting you do is almost useless after the native hunt.
You are thinking of a different hunt.....the one Dan is refering to is the unregulated one north of Fort Mac not the new wood bison season. There's no stinking non-residents permitted in the wood bison hunt!
Most of the scouting in the unregulated area is done from the comfort of a light aircraft and then hunters snowmobile in to GPS coordinates and shoot the bison and either take them out on sleighs or call in the helicopter to sling them to the road.
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We were north and east of John D'or Prairie, on the south slopes of the Caribou Mountains. There are now lumber trails in there, so you can probably get further back then we did. We had to quad in, and cut trails everywhere we went, 20 years of willow growth on every damn trail. A snowmobile would have been better then the quads. Locals may or may not be helpful, some were, some didn't want us there. The lumber companies have way better maps then the forestry guys, like night and day (10 years difference in updates). Gut and skin them where they fall (you can pull the hides off with the quads), quarter them with a chainsaw, haul out the meat on sledges (or divvy up between quads if you have enough of them). Lots of wolves in the area too, and some really nice black ones, good size, make nice rugs. It is a lot of work, but it was fun. Saw a few deer, of good size, and a few moose as well. It was late in the season, and we had deer and moose tags as well. However for the bison, you can go whenever, and later is better for frozen waterways to travel. - dan
