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I have my RPAL and a half-dozen guns, but I have yet to do any hunting because no one my family is into it or guns for that matter. For this reason I don't really know a whole lot about the subject. I'm living in BC, what can you tell me?

I understand that I'd have to get a separate license and take a core called CORE, how long is it? How much does it usually cost to take the course? What sort of things would I be able to hunt? Specifically, what sort of small game is good around here? Where are the closest hunting grounds to the Lower Mainland? The location listed on my profile is pretty specific so you can use that to judge distances. Any other advice you can give me? Thanks in advance.
 
The core course is available at many a location, my son just completed his course in Cloverdale just last week. There are many locations to hunt in and around the LML, but they are not at all easy, especially for a rookie.

Take a look at huntingbc.ca and read all you can there. Lots to learn from a site more specific to your question.

Tell them Steeleco sent you!!!!
 
Contact any local gunshop, they will be able to refer you to local instructors.

As far as hunting in the lower mainland, if you dont get a Lower Fraser valley permit, then Harrison Lake is generally the best hunting close to home.
 
And the best part of all...
Once you get your license you are allowed to murderdeathkill all the 'yotes you want.

Happy shooting ;)
 
Vizier said:
I have my RPAL and a half-dozen guns, but I have yet to do any hunting because no one my family is into it or guns for that matter. For this reason I don't really know a whole lot about the subject. I'm living in BC, what can you tell me?

I understand that I'd have to get a separate license and take a core called CORE, how long is it? How much does it usually cost to take the course? What sort of things would I be able to hunt? Specifically, what sort of small game is good around here? Where are the closest hunting grounds to the Lower Mainland? The location listed on my profile is pretty specific so you can use that to judge distances. Any other advice you can give me? Thanks in advance.
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I put your location into Google. Oh Dear!
I really feel sorry for you. It is just so tough for a young person in your position, without an interested Dad, older brother, or some other family member to take you out.
Even an experienced hunter living in your location, would get very little hunting, other than maybe going on a once a year, major hunt.
My advice would be to take the training program, called the CORE program, a prerequisite for obtaining a hunting licence in BC, if you can conveniently get it. Once you get the hunter number, given on successful completion of the course, it is good forever, meaning you can at any later date, get your BC hunting licence. Try to create a friendship with some experienced hunter, who you may later get to go hunting with.
There are just so many obstacles against you going it alone at this stage, that I could not recommend it. I think the result would be that you would get so turned off that you would drop hunting, compleately.
It is just so different in small communities. At one time I could take my shotgun and my Springer Spaniel, walk out our door and start hunting pheasants. Subdivisions, municipal by-laws and just plain too many people have stopped up that opportunity. However, a fifteen minute vehicle drive puts us in grouse hunting areas, while a half hour trip in at least three different areas, sees us in good deer and bear areas, as well as two or three kinds of grouse, and even geese, if we so desire.
 
H4831 said:
It is just so different in small communities. At one time I could take my shotgun and my Springer Spaniel, walk out our door and start hunting pheasants. Subdivisions, municipal by-laws and just plain too many people have stopped up that opportunity.
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Yup, I faced the same problems in my location when I first started a few years back, and still do.
Location is everything.
 
you have great deer hunting available to you sept-dec good good waterfowl oportunities as well. Game birds, rabbits, bears are also available. Best part of being down there is that competition for the hunting resources is slim to nill. With in a 3 hour drive you have what most North americans /europeans could only dream of. In fact I drove less KMs for hunting down there then I do up here in the serengetti of the north.
If you can handle the cost of a 12 foot aluminum boat, mountain bike or a kayak the opprotunites only get better. I lived down there for years and my freezer was always full of game and I seldom crossed the coast mountains.

Get your CORE completed, learn to read maps and it will all work out well for you. PM for help after you get a hunter # and have done some research.
 
Find a hunting buddy on E harmony.
Taking a weekend course on hunting only makes it legal. It takes some serious bush time, lots of passed down skills...to be a hunter.
 
You can get more info on the CORE course here: http://www.bcwf.bc.ca/programs/core/index.html. I bought the book from their office in Burnaby and am studying it now. I have also joined the Semiahmoo Fish and Game Club which offers the course for free (although I think there is a test fee). I'm also going in to a local taxidermy shop to practice animal identification (stupid waterfowl). I've also spoken to Scott at International Shooting Supplies in Surrey and Dave at Jennings Outdoor Sports about equipment as they never try to upsell you stuff you don't need.
 
Well, you're a lot closer to the Poco Fish and Game club and range than I am in Vancouver.

It's true, the public land waterfowling in the Lower Mainland are phenomenal. I'm still finding ducks in the freezer from 2006, never mind last year.

It's not that complicated, once you figure out where people go and get a shotgun, Fraser Valley licence, federal bird stamp and a pair of waders.

I wouldn't say there's no competition though, I've been chased out of goose fields by guys who've said they had more permission than me if you can believe that, and last spring some guy called the cops on us in a legal area to get us out of "his" spot, another farmer's field we had permission in.

I tell folks that this part of B.C. or any part of B.c. isn't really that rich in small game if you're thinking of rabbits for example. Some good upland bird hunting in places though, but really, you're going to be way more likely to see deer or bear than a rabbit or hare.

Lots of big hunting within three hours of home and even two, but that takes a little more experience to figure that out.
 
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