AB 226 bull and cow moose tags need filling.
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So now people are using the internet to get permission, do the scouting AND the hunting??? Congratulations... I hope you enjoy pulling the trigger... Should be very satisfying...
P.S - tags don't NEED filling... You WORK to fill them and you accept the results... A tag is not a sales receipt for a side of beef... It grants you the PRIVELGE to pursue game animals within the context of ETHICAL sportsmanship...
P.S - tags don't NEED filling... You WORK to fill them and you accept the results... A tag is not a sales receipt for a side of beef... It grants you the PRIVELGE to pursue game animals within the context of ETHICAL sportsmanship...
Dorian Gray
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Yes, Dad.
the spank
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Mr. Self Righteous is at it again!!
Call it "self righteous" or whatever you want... I am voicing my opinion (what forums are for) that it "flies in the face" of everything that hunting is all about to avoid the effort and expect others to take you by the hand, "donate their land or location," do your "scouting," do your "hunting," set-up the shot, and given the slovenliness of the sluggard requesting it, I would expect that the host would dress the game, haul it out and pay for the butchering/meat cutting... maybe I am touchy about this, since I have had lazy slobs try to attach themselves to our hunting parties for a "free ride" for 45 years...... when the work is to be done, they are "too busy"... but they magically appear when it is "trigger squeezing" time.
Note; I am not dissing legitimate mentoring, which I do more of then 99% of hunters... I am ALL FOR promoting the sport and getting new and young people involved, including donating equipment, taking them to the range, bringing them out on trips to experience hunting and shooting first hand etc...
In my estimation (JMO "the Spank") this ain't that.
Note; I am not dissing legitimate mentoring, which I do more of then 99% of hunters... I am ALL FOR promoting the sport and getting new and young people involved, including donating equipment, taking them to the range, bringing them out on trips to experience hunting and shooting first hand etc...
In my estimation (JMO "the Spank") this ain't that.
@ sheep hunter, my brother in law and I both have tags.
@ hoytcanon, Don't know many land owners in that zone. Figured if some farmer had a moose problem I would help them out. As for the undue comments of me being a Lazy sluggard, I never requested help with anything. If the land owner wants a few pounds of steaks, sausages or jerky I will gladly share.
Sorry if I offended your sense of what it means to Be a hunter by asking permission from any land owner CGN folk in the hunting forum. I was just trying to increase my chances of harvesting a moose
@ hoytcanon, Don't know many land owners in that zone. Figured if some farmer had a moose problem I would help them out. As for the undue comments of me being a Lazy sluggard, I never requested help with anything. If the land owner wants a few pounds of steaks, sausages or jerky I will gladly share.
Sorry if I offended your sense of what it means to Be a hunter by asking permission from any land owner CGN folk in the hunting forum. I was just trying to increase my chances of harvesting a moose
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the spank
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Voicing your opinion, is that what you call your consistent behaviour in bashing almost everyone who posts a thread that does not meet your terms or definition of hunting? Which from what I can tell is about 99% of the threads posted on here and if you are doing as much mentoring as you claim the sport of hunting is in trouble. Years down the road there will be nothing but a bunch of angry " my way or the highway" type hunters with a sense of entitlement who figure all before them is theirs unless you meet their terms. But why waste my energy? Your response to anyone posting any kind of question or comment is always going to be the same, negative!!
Voicing your opinion, is that what you call your consistent behaviour in bashing almost everyone who posts a thread that does not meet your terms or definition of hunting? Which from what I can tell is about 99% of the threads posted on here and if you are doing as much mentoring as you claim the sport of hunting is in trouble. Years down the road there will be nothing but a bunch of angry " my way or the highway" type hunters with a sense of entitlement who figure all before them is theirs unless you meet their terms. But why waste my energy? Your response to anyone posting any kind of question or comment is always going to be the same, negative!!
You're so upset, I gotta think that you are one of those, "rocking chair sitting"... "Let the other guy do the work" types. The only threads that get what you would call a "negative" opinion, would be the ones where someone is looking for "the easy way out." And my point is always the same; "get off your ass and away from the TV and do some scouting, and put in the effort and make it happen for yourself... It will be more satisfying this way."
And again that is only MY opinion... Feel free to have your own.
P.S - you clearly don't know what a "sense of entitlement" is... Because that is precisely what I am talking about... The belief that one is "owed" something, that they should be "given their due" and without "working" for it... And every post of mine you have commented on was saying the same thing;"stop asking for handouts on the internet, and do some WORK."
Does the thought of work bother you?
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BigUglyMan
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I think hoytcannon is making a bit of a stretch. The OP posted a pretty straightforward thread which has now been twisted into him not being willing to get out and do the work to fill his freezer. I didn't read into the thread that he was looking for a moose tied to a tree, just that he was looking for moose in that zone. I can sympathize with someone who doesn't know a zone being a bit lost starting out there, especially if he doesn't live in that area. The fact is that he posted a simple thread in a fairly lighthearted manner (and let's me honest, there's not much chance that anyone will reply telling him that he's seen moose in Joe Murphy's slough near the canola stubble). I think there's a deep breath to be taken here.
If you had tags a bit further south and east, I'd be happy to help out. The landowners would even supply the loader and you'd be welcome to hang them in my shop. The damn things are a menace on fences and darn hard to see in the dark when my wife and kids are on their way home.
Wow. OP is looking to make some contacts for land access and you sh!t all over him. I suppose you are like the guy in the thread about letting a grizzly go and think that it is unacceptable to stalk/hunt/shoot an animal that you happened to see while driving? I happen to not like the idea of hunting animals over bait, but I don't preach at the guys who do hunt that way or think I am a better person because I don't hunt the same way they do. It is their choice and if it is done within the limits prescribed by law then it is fine with me.
FWIW that tag is indeed a receipt for one dead animal to the government that issued it, whether you like to look at it that way or not.
Mark
Well Mark, you know what they say about opinions. Maybe I'm "Old School" and think that folks should put in an effort... Maybe this "internet scouting - help me find my animal" is the new wave in 21st century hunting... To me it is just taking the easy way out... Looking for hand-outs... But my opinion doesn't kill the thread... I wish the OP good luck and hope that all you folks in AB226 help him out... Scouting is a whole bunch easier than most people think, especially with Google Satelite and excellent maps to be hand for any region in Canada. And so is getting permission to hunt on private land... Most people don't bother trying... You might get some "noes" but you will surely get some "yeses" also.
JifeLacket
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Why wouldn't someone use the internet for networking with landowners/hunters in this day and age, it's just another tool to use. It's a bit of a shot in the dark on this forum since most people like keeping their spots secret etc, however I see nothing wrong with it. For all we know the OP could have already put hundreds of hours in scouting locations.
The more I reflect on it... It appears to be an "old school - new school" thing... Kids now grow up with video games and social networking... When they have a question or problem, they just naturally turn to the internet for the answer... I still see a subtle difference between using the internet for information on how to go about hunting a particular species and actually asking Canada wide (or regionally within a wildlife management unit) for someone to actually locate the animal for you and direct you to it... Maybe I'm an out-of-touch curmugeon... But it "just don't seem right." Like shooting animals out of a helocopter.
Wrong Way
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Hey Hoyt....I'd be willing to bet I put as many bush miles on as you do in a year...and I'm as "old school" as they come..., so you can save your sanctimony for people who actually don't know better when I write this:
"'tis better to remain quiet and be thought an idiot, than to open ones' mouth and remove all doubt"
Seriously...you have an opinion? Fine. But your methodology of delivering it is way out of line and makes YOU look bad, not he poster you're responding to.
"'tis better to remain quiet and be thought an idiot, than to open ones' mouth and remove all doubt"
Seriously...you have an opinion? Fine. But your methodology of delivering it is way out of line and makes YOU look bad, not he poster you're responding to.
I didn't ask for the land owner to locate anything.
Btw, I don't have a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account either.
And I was not inquiring about using a helicopter.
Perhaps I misread that?
Wouldn't be the first time and won't be the last... I am willing to "look bad" or "like an idiot" in voicing my opinion on this issue... let the chips fall where they may...
See above???
That was called an "analogy..." as in "not literal."
At any rate, I am done here... enough said. BigBush... I wish you luck... shoot a big one.
Wrong Way
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Of that, sadly, I have little doubt
Well then....congrats. Mission accomplished
Smartest thing you've posted
