small game
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Pudelpointer
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Lethbridge, Alberta
Hmmmm. Anything close to the Lower Mainland is pretty hit and miss when it comes to bunnies. I hunted my whole life BA (before Alberta) on the Sunshine Coast and found snowshoe hare to be spotty at best.
My suggestion is to get as high up as possible, you need to be above snowline by a good margin in the Coast Mountains. Otherwise head to higher elevations in the interior, maybe up near Clinton through to 100 Mile?
Good luck.
My suggestion is to get as high up as possible, you need to be above snowline by a good margin in the Coast Mountains. Otherwise head to higher elevations in the interior, maybe up near Clinton through to 100 Mile?
Good luck.
longstonec
New member
- Location
- Vancouver, Whistler, Rivers Inlet.
My buddy got one two years ago when we where traveling between camps deer hunting near Loon Lake. See them up pretty high often right to the top of tree line.
- Location
- Kamloops, BC
Huntingbc had a thread about a couple guys that used to go to the high school with a slingshot and a six-pack, whack them then take them home. Why drive too far for rabbits.
You could try up Gold Mtn. FSR to the right off Highway 3 just before Stemwinder park. I was up there one spring when there was still at least a metre of snow on the ground and the hares had eaten the bark from off pine trees at the snow level.
You could go up the Smith Creek road before that too.
You could go up the Smith Creek road before that too.
Pudelpointer
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Lethbridge, Alberta
Well if you are okay with the $50 ferry ride....
Good luck getting up any of the forestry roads at this time of year, save one: I believe the SCRD was keeping an FSR from Wilson Creek open into the high country for skiing, at least that was the plan 6 years ago when I left. There were always snowshoe hare tracks around up there, though we rarely saw any. FYI, I would verify with someone local that they have not regulated the discharge of firearms in that area since they were promoting it as a "recreation area".
Tell ya what....I'll swap ya an all inclusive,fully guided,all you can shoot bunny hunt in NB for just about any hunting/fishing trip you can provide in BC.....Moose,elk,bear,blacktail,muley,chinooks,coho,steelhead,cutthroat,dollies...I'm not too fussy.
oops,sorry,no longer "all you can shoot"....we have a 10/day limit in recent years....which is retarded being as one can snare 50/day or more if they so wish?
Musta came up with that rule to slow the beaglers down?Late Nov./early Dec. is a fun time for plinkin'em with .22.....white rabbits on brown ground glow like javex jugs.
BlazinDayz
Regular
- Location
- Niverville, MB
Is there any crown land near St. Malo to hunt rabbits on??? Looking over google earth shows lots of forested plots, just don't know whats private and whats not.
There's the St. Malo WMA and the Rat River WMA.
BlazinDayz
Regular
- Location
- Niverville, MB
Are they one and the same. Looking over a land ownership map I can see the one adjacent to hwy 59 but can't locate the rat river wma.
blasted_saber
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- A blue part of Ontario
Just a word of caution, very soon rabbits will start breeding (yes, they do stop....) so unless you don't mind pulling half formed rabbit kits out of females, I'd hold off for now. They dont taste all that great this time of year anyway.
The st malo wma is right near town (east). The rat river wma is past new rosa (just over a half mile east of 59).
I think you can only hunt in the st malo wma during a big game or game bird season. Snow goose season is coming up, not sure if that counts ;-)
