best place in alberta for hunting

impala said:
so I should jump in my truck and drive 5 hours just to see were I might be able to hunt?I was not asking for directions but just a general idea of were i would see lots of diff animals?who are you to say i don't know much about hunting?you have no clue.come down here and we can go spend a week on my land or anywere around here.I will teach you things you never knew.I will show you things you have never seen.it would blow your mind.I spend every day in the country I put manymiles on in the bush every week.I get closer to many animals that most city people ever thought possible.I engoy nature to its fullest and just because I don't belive in being greedy with what god created for all of us.I don't know about hunting?keep your sweet honey hole.guess I should not let people hunt on my land because there are animals there and I don't want anyone to see them besides me
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All this coming from a guy who had to ask "what is a possesion limit?" :rolleyes:
Please enlighten me old wise one, what will you teach me? I have hunted animals all over Alberta, probably even some right by your land. Where are you from?

P.S. You remind me of a young guy who used to frequent these forums and went by the name "Moose Hunter". Do you know him?
 
Impala. If you want a varity of game with out a ton of people I guess you have to check out the Peace region of Alberta.
You have Mules, Whites, Moose, Elk and Bear. Plenty of crown land, and plenty of private crops.
Great place to start anyhow.
Good luck
Jamie
 
WHAT'S THAT SMELL!?!?

The BS Detector is showing numbers off the chart..............OK let's re-zero the setting to "Juvenile Male with Red Ryder Dreaming Big." The cross-hairs are synchronizing.........target identified..........

And I thought you had to go to Africa to hunt impala............

Doug
 
Myself and my partners drive eight hours each way on our annual hunt.Considering that we see moose,elk,mules,and whitetails every day and bring home plenty of game,we consider the drive well worth it.
 
impala said:
were would you guys say is the best area for all around animals like the widest range of species and the least human interaction.I want to find a place to go to hunt/sight see and want to go were there is a very wide range of animals and a very low amount of human activity but it has to be accesible by vehicle like no fly in.don't care if I have to walk in but I can't a ford a fly in for what i want to do
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N. Alberta.:p
 
Impala (my favorite car)
Some of these guys are a little insensative at times. Take it with some salt.

I live near Rockt Mountain House. If I drive west of Rocky I can park beside highway #11 and walk north or south on a cutline or pipeline and be in country where there are moose, elk, mule deer, white-tails, blackbear, cougar, wolf, coyote, grouse. If I walk a long way or up over a ridge I can get where the highway traffic is not heard. Most days I will not see another hunter. Sometimes after noon I might hear or see an ATV with a hunter on it. Once in awhile I will see another hunter out walking and if I choose to talk to them I usually find them interesting to meet.

It is not "wilderness" but there is a variety of game and usually not too much "human interferance".

This is not a "honey hole" (what ever that is) It is just an area that fits some of the things you are seeking.

Robin down under
 
I should not let people hunt on my land because there are animals there and I don't want anyone to see them besides me
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No, you have it wrong. You let the people hunt who come and ask - you just don't go blabbing about your land and how great it is over the internet.

But to answer your question, Lethbridge. Prairie to montane in striking distance and everything that comes with those diverse habitats (tough to find antelope up north). The ranches have few people on them and once you get up into the high country you'll be about as alone as you can get in this overpopulated province. Otherwise, I'd suggest the Milk River. As a bonus, the prairie allows you to see something besides the tree two feet in front of you like the boreal or the foothills (unless of course you're sitting on a quad highway - aka cutline).

As for Duffy suggesting RMH area: this is where I hunt and there is just too much activity to make it very 'peaceful': From quads on every cutline and racing up and down the lease roads, to helicopters, to forestry and oil activity, to every joe out for a drive to see if they can shoot something.
 
Duffy said:
Impala (my favorite car)
Some of these guys are a little insensative at times. Take it with some salt.

I live near Rockt Mountain House. If I drive west of Rocky I can park beside highway #11 and walk north or south on a cutline or pipeline and be in country where there are moose, elk, mule deer, white-tails, blackbear, cougar, wolf, coyote, grouse. If I walk a long way or up over a ridge I can get where the highway traffic is not heard. Most days I will not see another hunter. Sometimes after noon I might hear or see an ATV with a hunter on it. Once in awhile I will see another hunter out walking and if I choose to talk to them I usually find them interesting to meet.

It is not "wilderness" but there is a variety of game and usually not too much "human interferance".

This is not a "honey hole" (what ever that is) It is just an area that fits some of the things you are seeking.

Robin down under
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Duf,

Protective would be a better term of choice rather than insensitive.:rolleyes:

Point of fact is I (as well as most hnuters on this board) have spent hours, days and years developing my own maps, talking to farmers, walking cutlines, gorges etc.... and no way am I going to just hand that info out over the internet. Call it paranoid if you like, but good quiet hunting grounds is getting harder and hader to come by.

Rite of passage as a hunter is to get out and develop your own experiences. In time you find a "honey hole" (by the way a honey hole is a place that no one knows about where you've had a tremndous amount of luck in the fall harvest).

I've taken many new hunters out to some of my spots but I don't talk about the location of my moose camp in the coffee shop because we have a ton of hunters up here and quite frankly , I don't go 30 miles back into the bush to visit with other hunters.:cool:
 
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Mumptia said:
Duf,

Protective would be a better term of choice rather than insensitive.:rolleyes:

Point of fact is I (as well as most hnuters on this board) have spent hours, days and years developing my own maps, talking to farmers, walking cutlines, gorges etc.... and no way am I going to just hand that info out over the internet.

Rite of passage as a hunter is to get out and develop your own experiences. In time you find a "honey hole" (by the way a honey hole is a place that no one knows about where you've had a tremndous amount of luck in the fall harvest).

I've taken many new hunters out to some of my spots but I don't talk about the location of my moose camp in the coffee shop because we have a ton of hunters up here and quite frankly , I don't go 30 miles back into the bush to visit with other hunters.:cool:
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Very well put!
 
The original question was "best area for all around animals like the widest range of species and the least human interaction"

Doesn't sound to me like he was asking for anybodies "honey hole" or "Wilderness retreat". Just and AREA and LEAST HUMAN INTERACTION.

And a variety of animals.

Sounds to me like he lives and hunts in the south or south east. If he wants to have a chance to see or hunt elk, moose, deer, bear, wolf I gave him an AREA where I sometimes hunt for those critters and often do so without much "human interactions" around.

Winters, Sounds like you have had some bad trips west of Rocky. The only time I see a lot of hunters driving around looking to shoot something is when I am "road hunting". When I get out for a long walk in the bush I usually don't see or hear anyone else. And I doubt if saying this on the internet is going to bring a hord of hunters into the Rocky area. If a few do come out that way and enjoy themselves hunting, then I am glad I could be some help to them.

Robin down under
 
It can go the other way too, last year I parked at a capped well on crown land and was about to start walking a cut line. Two excited gentlemen came driving up real fast and expressed their concern that I was hunting on their spot (a makeshift parking lot) I reminded them it was public land and suggested they make friends with a farmer if they wanted an exclusive spot. Wished them a nice day and carried on. I've been through that spot each year for the past ten, only worth a cursory check anyway.
 
savagefan said:
It can go the other way too, last year I parked at a capped well on crown land and was about to start walking a cut line. Two excited gentlemen came driving up real fast and expressed their concern that I was hunting on their spot (a makeshift parking lot) I reminded them it was public land and suggested they make friends with a farmer if they wanted an exclusive spot. Wished them a nice day and carried on. I've been through that spot each year for the past ten, only worth a cursory check anyway.
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Same kind of thing happened to me but on private land.

The other hunter started his sentence with *&%#$%(^(&*^*&%&^$% and I ended it with "here is my written permission where is yours?":rolleyes:

He left after some choice words and threats.

Turned out he was a poacher who had come in the "back way" hoping no one would see him.

Never saw him again.
 
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