martinbns said:
Ours was similar, but what part of Alberta are the whitetail supp tags valid for this early?
The supp tags are open the same timeframe as the general whitetail tags are from what I gather - is it different up in the N.Borreal wmu's? I don't buy them (wouldn't even if I could - I just can't eat that much meat in a year) so I've never looked into them but just had a quick perusal of the regs online and can't see a difference in the seasons, just the wmu's they're allowed in.
Cat and Fox, yep on the bike. It's a Rokon, 2 wheel drive. Incredible bike, not the fastest by any means but talk about climbing power - I swear that thing would climb straight up a tree if you could get the tires to stick to it somehow :shock: . Picture looks a bit out of whack and seems to make it smaller than it is but if you compare it to the moose quarters hanging beside it you can tell a bit better. It's one of the older models (70's I think) and fairly rare from what I gather as it is an automatic shift (evidently most are standard). Buddy just did a complete rebuild on it and is now pondering doing some sort of Honda conversion on the Merc outboard motor it currently runs on.
TMac, unfortunately I didn't get a pic of either of the moose as I wasn't along when they were taken and we were too far away to get back to help bring them out. They were already hanging by the time we got back to camp from our hunts - easy
. I felt kind of bad so I lended a hand skining out the quarters while we toasted the kills. One was a spiker (big body though) and the other was a fairly nice size (you can see the rack strapped to the meat pile in the truck bed). The body on that mulie was monsterous. I passed on several decent 3x3 bucks over the week waiting for another one like him but didn't come across anything as nice.
Gibbs, we keep a couple of bear tags handy for just such an occurence but evidently they learned their lesson the hard way last year. After we found paw marks on the hides of the deer trying to pull them down, I stayed back in camp when the boys went out for the evening hunt (I'd already taken my buck by that time) and within 10 minutes of the boys heading out I started to hear thrashing away off in the bush. Took the big guy about 15 minutes to make his way into camp but I let him have it with the .358 BLR. Nice big cinnamon. Must have just been sitting back waiting for the guys to leave camp and I was careful to be quiet once they headed out. The very next morning as we were starting to wake up we heard sounds from outside the tent by the meat poles (my buddy had rigged up bear alarms, empty beer bottles strung between every 2 deer) so I handed my buddy by the tent door the .358 and he poked his head out and quickly dispatched another of our fine furry friends. This one was a lot smaller and jet black. Funny thing, that was the first (and only so far) year we've had any bears brave enough to venture into camp.
Thanks for all the congrats guys, it really was a great hunt. Every morning and evening would be a roll of the dice on who brought what back into camp. Weather was great most of the time. Had some rain, some hail and a bit of snow here and there but nothing too bad except for making the roads a bloody mess. Temperature hovered around -5 at night and anywhere from 5-10 during the day - great hunting weather. We've been pretty discouraged the last few years with 20-25 degree temps periodically but this year was great.
