Antlerless deer Cull in Alberta next week!!!!

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Hunters can take aim at antlerless white-tailed and mule deer starting next week in northwestern Alberta.

The province is implementing a quota hunt to cut down on the ballooning deer populations in the area of Bear Canyon, about 90 km northwest of Fairview.

Exactly 150 hunting licences are up for grabs to Alberta residents. Each licence allows a hunter to harvest four antlerless white-tailed or mule deer.

Licences go on sale Feb. 1 at 450 private licence issuers throughout Alberta. Licences cost $9 plus tax.

To view a map of the hunt location, log onto: www.srd. gov.ab.ca/fw/hunting/huntnews.html.
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.....................Bear Canyon looks to be just east of Ft.St John on the ol map.
 
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Just a note to anyone going up to shoot some does. Some of the bucks will have dropped their "head bone" so if you see three or four deer together and you pic the biggest one to shoot it may be a bald buck. Maybe not the best idea to be harvesting them (the bald bucks) at this time.

Robin in Rocky
 
Win94 said:
.....................Bear Canyon looks to be just east of Ft.St John on the ol map.
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What a great way to stock up the freezer with some awesome meat.

Just a question, how does 450 retailers sell 150 licences? Is it a draw of some sort?
 
Win94 said:
Maybe the license issuers have an electronic way of seeing if there is any left before the sell you one??
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Electronic?:eek: Wow! What a concept!

B.C. is still stuck in the 60's or 70's - all licences are hand written with the sticker for the species you are targeting. And don't even get me started with our "Limited Entry Hunting" draw...

All sarcasim aside, thanks Mark, that would make sense.
 
I wonder why F & W picked just that area in that WMU? Its the same all over especially with the mulies. I have a sore spot for the biologist that said WMU 527 is low on mulies, especially bucks. Maybe this guy should go out and redo his counts through-out the entire WMU and not just a certain area. I have seen many 1/4's of land that only have mulies everywhere. Since its went to a draw system in the northern WMU's, there are alot more bigger bucks. The phone call a person gets after hunting season doing research on harvests- if a person says the did not get their mulie-its marked & seen in my view as not enough bucks. This I believe is not true, b/c what about the hunters that pass on a mulie buck waiting for a larger one and the season ends that way and the hunter has no quams about not shooting a smaller buck. I for one hunt like this and the survey does not take that into consideration.

Plus I have 2 company trucks that have/had severe damage from run-ins with mulies in the past 2 months, and I am not the only one.

As mentioned, I wouldnt be surprised that a few bucks are taken since the head gear may be shed. I guess look thru your binos first and get a good look before shooting.
 
.....................They haven't called me for that survey for about 6 years.:confused:


...................As for the possibility of shooting bucks with dropped antlers, maybe they should have done this in December or January??
 
Win94 said:
.....................They haven't called me for that survey for about 6 years.:confused:


...................As for the possibility of shooting bucks with dropped antlers, maybe they should have done this in December or January??
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But that would make sense......right? They haven't phoned me for years either and I think I have a bit more knowledge than a 19yr old student in a plane for a few days counting deer (or grizzlies).
 
Judging by the ditches between Hines Creek and Fort St. John, it's cull season pretty well 365 days a year. You could feed most of China off the road kill. I hate driving that road (or most roads in northern Alberta, for that matter) after dark because of the density of wildlife.
 
There is a few grazing leases in the Bear Canyon area, plus other crown land and farm land. I would think that the land owners would be very co-operative in access since it was them that would of requested the cull due to over grazing by the deer on the feed for their cattle. If the land owners refuse access to hunt then they should not be compensated by F & W for lost feed if they claim for the loss.

I know of a few landowners like this-cry wolf over their loss of feed due to over grazing of deer/elk/moose, place a claim of loss; get tags in the WMU increased to harvest more animals, but do not allow access to hunters and also leave their bails out in the fields all winter. As a landowner, we get all our bails off and back home stockpiled up for the cattle, not left in the fields thru the winter. I know that stuff happens and a person cant get the bails, but to leave them all thru the fall and winter, thats your problem, not F&W.
 
Duffy said:
Just a note to anyone going up to shoot some does. Some of the bucks will have dropped their "head bone" so if you see three or four deer together and you pic the biggest one to shoot it may be a bald buck. Maybe not the best idea to be harvesting them (the bald bucks) at this time.
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i think that is why it says "antlerless" instead of "doe". but i know what you are saying, leave the bucks for fall. but since this is a cull i doubt the managers care whether it is a buck or a doe, they just want the numbers down.
 
Normally I would be upset I didn't get one. But I was looking at the logistics of it all and if you consider the 100 or so square miles that they've allotted and then add in 600 bullets flying around in a month multiplied by 150 hunters (who will generally be out on the weekend for a two or three day hunt)then subtract the farmers out there who don't let hunters on their land and the chance of successful harvest is as high as a hunter accident/fatality.:runaway:

Anyone else see potential for problems there?:cool:
 
I was pumped but decided not to buy a license. The local sporting goods store was even going to let me in at 8:30 am to help my chances. Long drive and not knowing the area plus if they have the snow we do, it could be a real hassle. I'm not into towing my sled up there and i think my quad would useless with the snow conditions.
 
A buddy thatwas planning on buying a tag missed out as they sold quickly. He did get a fact sheet about the hunt and it said only on private land with a list of the landowners' names and phone #'s to get permission. My guess is there will be a few tresspassing charges given out as 150 hunters in one small area for 1 month, and some people just dont give a $#!%.
 
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