BC Dream Hunts

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If you were young, stupid, in relatively good shape and a resident of British Columbia what are the hunts that you would have on your bucket list?

Say you're willing to spend as much as you would on a canned plain games hunt in SA.

Northern Rockies jet boat safari for this dude. Jetboat may cost more than above mentioned price, ymmv.

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a dream hunt in BC...… at this point I think hunting wolves from a helicopter would be one I would pay big $$ for but these opportunities don't seem to exist.
Have to go to texas and heli hunt hawgs instead LOL
 
I’d like to get another crack at Dall sheep. The tatshenshini is an unbelievable place. Going to be hunting Roosevelt elk this fall, doing a fly in for caribou and another for moose as well.

I guess an archery elk hunt while they’re screaming in the rut would be a dream hunt.
 
Well I'm 3/4 your criteria so I'm out on a fly in moose hunt in northern Ontario come sept. But if for some reason I find myself living that far west I think I'd be selling most of my guns to finance hunting excursions. Started out thinking it would be Elk in the rut although I can tell you the answer will change over time. I suppose the only animals truly out of touch at this point are sheep and thats the point of the bucket list.
 
I love hunting our alpine mule deer! I may work harder fir my deer than most guys do for a sheep, or at least it feels this way. But i live for those mountains.
 
The dream hunt having done a bit of this for a living is a fly in backpack hunt, way away from another soul in the mountains for two weeks. It really doesn’t matter a ton after that what the species is as it’s just the reason to be out there. Personally I’d argue mountain sheep and mountain goat are the holy grails, goats being the hardest if that’s a factor you appreciate. They literally live on top of the mountain and take you places you never imagined.

Get out there in BC, and you don’t even have to kill something to win. Take two weeks a year to LIVE. You don’t even need a rifle or a tag, but they’re good vehicles to get you to the places in this world few see.

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The only hunt I would like to partake in is a bull elk hunt or a back packing moose hunt, I hunt moose on the east coast but it's a challenge in other parts, and the experience if only that
 
I get out there and live all over the woods in Northern BC every day, I have had “ safari 2021” on my mind for a while. I had to abort a BC dream hunt last November for a new job, but this year I have not one but two booked off on opposite ends of the province.

TLDR looking for ideas
 
Looking at Ardent's photos I can almost smell the heather on the mountain and the decaying salmon in the streams again. We hunted everything in BC, all over the province, been on many a mountain and plenty of coastal salmon streams , goats, sheep, elk, moose and griz being a special addiction. The legs and lungs aren't up to mountain hunts anymore, griz is finished in BC and elk and moose are just too d'md heavy for an old man to wrestle, so it's smaller species and easier hunts now. We lost our grizzly hunt, caribou are next, who knows what is after that? Go while you can, the world is shrinking and your opportunities with it.
 
Grizzly hunt. You did say dream hunt right? That's the only one I can only dream of doing... The rest are goals, not dreams...

I guess a Stave or Pitt River elk is pretty damn close to a dream too, with the 300 to 1 odds of getting drawn and all.

Ardent those pics of the bases of glaciers are simply stunning. Can't wait for a chance to play in a paradise like that. Stuck in my current job till next spring, then I'll be looking to move out of Vancouver and actually be able to afford to go on big hunting trips...
 
I’ll be an outlier and admit curiosity at the interest in Stave an Pitt R Rosie hunts, is it because of the long odds? Mighty close to town and in the case of Pitt R very roaded / logged / travelled. Much more pristine elk hunts are all over the province with no draw, admittedly not Rosies. I like the upper Pitt we go there a lot, but it’s basically the big city getaway, not dream hunt material in my eyes but to each their own.
 
Dream hunt/goal hunt, don't get tied up on semantics. We are lucky enough to live in a province where many over the counter "dream" hunting trips are available.

My basic idea here was I'm young and have disposable income/ no children. I could spend money on a low end safari in africa or try my hand at a few hunts in BC over the counter.

This year a buddy and I are going to Haida Gwaii for deer and I will also be moose, elk, bear and deer hunting closer to home. I think next year I will moose hunt up north.

I'm honestly curious to see what people view as the best elk, deer, sheep hunting in the province and plan accordingly.

And yes as per all of us, definitely regret not hunting Grizzly bears when I lived in the Northern Interior. For some reason that is the area I would really like to hunt them and not on the coast.
 
i think that today a bc dream hunt is in the Yukon.

yes we do not have huge quantity of boar grizzly but still OTC, we do not have rocky or california bighorns but we have dall ...

and for most it OTC and still and so far not that much hunting pressure if you do a little of planning ....
 
haida Gwaii was on my bucket list for a number of reasons, the deer, the elk and the steelhead.
I crossed two off the list but not the elk.... that's a whole nuther ballgame hunting that herd.

I guess besides a helicopter hunt for wolves LOL the animal that actually got me into hunting in the first place was California big horn sheep. After my work place injuries in 98, I tried to get a sheep once I was able to hike again (kinda ) , came close but didn't. I suppose at my age and present physical condition a trip for a truly magnificent mature bull elk smack in the middle of calling season would probably be the one I would be willing to pay for.
 
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I might live somewhere a guy can get into some bull elk.

Send me a PM if you're interested.

i think that today a bc dream hunt is in the Yukon.
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Maybe, there is still a lot of skeg and mountain in Northern BC, just a matter of getting there.
 
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