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[Cintax]

Some excellent free range hunting for stags in New Zealand as well but it's still typically pay to play on private property. We did a free range hunt there a few years ago and it was awesome. It took this stag. Not a monster but I was very pleased.

Nothing wrong with that stag! Look at that scene behind you.. what a beautiful place to hunt!

 

[Salty]

Suppose BC black bear is an adventure for some folks elsewhere in the country, fair enough.

I hear you Ardent I personally don't bother hunting bears I probably would if I wouldn't be the only one in the household eating the ham and peperoni. And when you see a dozen + a day at prime times of the year the wow factor subsides over the years. ..

 

[Gatehouse]

Unfortunately for those of us in BC, black bears are like rabbits, as you well know a full quarter of all the black bears in Canada live here. For those outside BC, this isn't possible due to the regs. Looking for adventures, especially out of season and in winter, you can do well outside your usual haunts on a reasonable budget. And most importantly:

If you are Canadian and friends with a resident hunter of BC you can be sponsored to hunt here for general open season hunts where numbers are deemed to be plentiful enough. Black bears are pretty much a slam dunk. I successfully sponsored a fellow Ontario hunter a few years ago the process went very smoothly. Not a pay for hunt scenario but it is definitely an option.

That's what I was getting at.

I've taken lots of BC first time hunters bear hunting, including those I've met on CGN. A spring black bear hunt in BC on a Permit to Accompany might be a real good time for someone in another province that doesn't have big black bears.

 

[Cintax]

That's what I was getting at.

I've taken lots of BC first time hunters bear hunting, including those I've met on CGN. A spring black bear hunt in BC on a Permit to Accompany might be a real good time for someone in another province that doesn't have big black bears.

Now that is an interesting idea.

 

[Ardent]

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I hear you Ardent I personally don't bother hunting bears I probably would if I wouldn't be the only one in the household eating the ham and peperoni. And when you see a dozen + a day at prime times of the year the wow factor subsides over the years. ..

I still like hunting Grizzlies and push hard for the draws mind you! I have to concede this is probably the most beautiful spot in the world to hunt black bear, and on a sponsor hunt, why the hell not for an out of provincer. We need help keeping the numbers down anyways and I'm not doing my part.

 

[freddyfour]

I have a good friend that lives in Alberta, I may take advantage of the host hunter program next year!

 

[Suther]

What about something closer? Texas perhaps? Hogs from a Helicopter?

$2150 per person, gets you two hours in a Heli, plus 3 meals and a nights stay. You can do up to 6 hours in a day too (expensive day though. lol)

Its on my bucket list, thats for sure.

 

[Ardent]

In the right profession, in Alberta you get paid to do that on wolves.

 

[sheephunter]

In the right profession, in Alberta you get paid to do that on wolves.

Sadly not recently.

 

[Ardent]

Trust me, business as usual in the little smoky. It's limited to one caribou herd and area but it's busy. It'll be going a long time in the little smoky herd as well, only thing that's keeping calf mortality in check. Could be tough these days to expand it with the lack of understanding in the press.

 

[Suther]

Trust me, business as usual in the little smoky. It's limited to one caribou herd and area but it's busy. It'll be going a long time in the little smoky herd as well, only thing that's keeping calf mortality in check. Could be tough these days to expand it with the lack of understanding in the press.

SIGN ME UP! I'll move to Alberta for THAT... lol

 

[Ardent]

Not open to public naturally as with anything interesting. Lots of culling abroad too, friends have worked culling feral horses in Australia, and lots of heli culling in Africa as well, I'll be culling there 2015. But these are working adventures, not budget adventures, we stick on this path and sheephunter will own the thread.

 

[southernman]

New Zealand, I see its been said a few times, I used to live down there, and there is fantastic hunting, chamois, Tahr, Red and Sika deer probley having the best chance of a trophy. But with eight types of deer, plus tahr, chamois, pigs and goats, plus small game there is lots of hunting choices.
Bearing in mind that the animals, are hunted all year round, a good level of mountain fitness, is going to be needed to get into less pressured areas,
I spend six weeks a year hunting and fishing every year, and with the mortage in Fort McMurray paied of this summer, it will be a lot more often. I have a house down there and plan on selling up and heading back with in a few years.
For all of those looking at photo's of massive red deer, most of them are a farmed hunt, animal is breed behind the wire and released onto a station for a few weeks, before been shot, most kiwis, (new Zealanders) find it offence to call this hunting, a nice even heavy timber 12-14 point red is about as good as it gets on crown land, I have seen a nice 16 pointer but was in velvet still, and thus survived.
A cheap rental car, a good pr boots, time and a lot of effert will get you into sum fantastic hunting country, for next to no cost, bring you trout rod, the fishing's great, aursum sal####er fishing too.

 

[Cintax]

Not open to public naturally as with anything interesting. Lots of culling abroad too, friends have worked culling feral horses in Australia, and lots of heli culling in Africa as well, I'll be culling there 2015. But these are working adventures, not budget adventures, we stick on this path and sheephunter will own the thread.

How do I get this job?

New Zealand, I see its been said a few times, I used to live down there, and there is fantastic hunting, chamois, Tahr, Red and Sika deer probley having the best chance of a trophy. But with eight types of deer, plus tahr, chamois, pigs and goats, plus small game there is lots of hunting choices.
Bearing in mind that the animals, are hunted all year round, a good level of mountain fitness, is going to be needed to get into less pressured areas,
I spend six weeks a year hunting and fishing every year, and with the mortage in Fort McMurray paied of this summer, it will be a lot more often. I have a house down there and plan on selling up and heading back with in a few years.
For all of those looking at photo's of massive red deer, most of them are a farmed hunt, animal is breed behind the wire and released onto a station for a few weeks, before been shot, most kiwis, (new Zealanders) find it offence to call this hunting, a nice even heavy timber 12-14 point red is about as good as it gets on crown land, I have seen a nice 16 pointer but was in velvet still, and thus survived.
A cheap rental car, a good pr boots, time and a lot of effert will get you into sum fantastic hunting country, for next to no cost, bring you trout rod, the fishing's great, aursum sal####er fishing too.

Pretty much what I was expecting when I saw those photos, also not the kind of hunting I want to do either. Sounds like I should have done my working holiday in NZ instead of Australia. Man, I really wish I was into hunting when I was living in that hemisphere.

 

[Ardent]

Cintax when you find out, let me know, I get to do it about two weeks every few years and get paid in favours, tough to explain as work to my wife. One friend, pilot, and member here does it a good deal as a large part of his living lately, he's lead a pretty interesting path in life getting there. Right place, right time, right pieces of paper, right experience stuff.

I work shifts, wife and I are looking at taking a shift off to give us six weeks and doing NZ next winter to escape the North. Topping the list right now as my wife will enjoy it there too, unlike Tajikistan.

 

[surplusshooter]

how much would it cost to bring back a couple hundred pounds of boar meat to BC from Hawaii?

 

[surplusshooter]

also how far north are boars in western US? any boar hunting in Washington state?

 

[Ardent]

That's a bit too much as you're flying, considering the average boar deboned likely only nets 20lbs of meat that's more action than is likely to occur too. It's just the regular excess baggage rate, you need a foam cooler and aircraft legal ice packs (Costco in Kona knows what you need if you ask at the meat department). Realistically I'd shoot two, give one away, BBQ one while you're there over a couple weeks. It just becomes an unbelievable hassle when you start flying with meat, you can and its legal, but a lot easier to use it all in Hawaii.

No boar in Washington to my knowledge thankfully, Florida and Texas are easy, quick and cheap flights too mind you I'd just head there. Been to Florida well over a half dozen times these last ten years, it's quicker to get there than for me to drive to work.

 

[freeman83]

I would love to go to northern Québec or NW Territories to do Moose hunting. I would add, bow hunting to top off that experience if I was any good with a compound bow.

 

[WhelanLad]

Nothing wrong with that stag! Look at that scene behind you.. what a beautiful place to hunt!

I find it hard to believe that is a Free range stag
those lakes are the give away

Its a good looking Trophy Red though, each to their own.

WL