Canada In The Rough

I watched the show also. The only issue I had was them leaving the bull on the mountain after they shot it. They came back to recover the meat and trophy the next morning. I personally would NOT have left the meat or head there overnight.

Skinning and preparing the meat for transport by horseback is not rocket science, it just takes the time and effort to do it.

I guess when you are hunting for a trophy and NOT to feed yourself and family..., you look at hunting in a different way.

Cheers
Jay
 
I thought it was not bad until the point where they approached the downed caribou. When Thomas Pigeon poked the 'bou with the rifle barrel - which just had a fresh cartridge jacked into the chamber - and then proceeded to spin the rifle and grab it by the muzzle to place it on the off side of the animal I nearly puked.

Mr. Pigeons lack of safe gun and bow handling has been a fairly constant disappointment with this series and this particular goof where he grabs a loaded firearm by the barrel with the muzzle pointing at his body ranks right near the top of the list.
 
I watched it too, really looked forward to this one since we are headed into country this year close to where they were hunting. Mountains won't be that gentle though.

Did you guys miss when he pointed the gun at the guide and horses just after he shot the bull and jacked a fresh round in the chamber, I believe he put it on safe( hard to tell) but still could be considered poor practice.

Not much of a Thomas Pigeon fan but I am a hunting fan so I put up with him in order to get my fix.
 
I also didn't like them leaving it out all night. Not when they had plenty of time to get it off. But I guess getting all the trophy shots, retakes of the final approach and bs takes time. :rolleyes: And the funny part is, they said they already had it quartered and scattered to prevent scavangers. If it was quartered, why didn't they just finish and load it out? Not enough good light for the camara I guess. :rolleyes: And did anyone else notice they took the time to cape the head, removed that, but left the antlers there to look good? Caping takes time. Time that could have been used to pack the whole thing back to camp and finish there. My opinion only of course, but I'm just bitter. After watching them shoot that pheasant with clipped wings that was thrown over their backs for the camara pi$$ed me off.
 
Brambles said:
I watched it too, really looked forward to this one since we are headed into country this year close to where they were hunting. Mountains won't be that gentle though.

Did you guys miss when he pointed the gun at the guide and horses just after he shot the bull and jacked a fresh round in the chamber, I believe he put it on safe( hard to tell) but still could be considered poor practice.

Not much of a Thomas Pigeon fan but I am a hunting fan so I put up with him in order to get my fix.
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Yes, I saw the swinging the gun around in the directon of the guide & horses but I thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt on tht one. I chewed on him pretty good, on this site and to him and the production Co., concerning his archery 'exhibition' on Caribou.
 
crazy_davey said:
Very true. But some people wouldn't know that because they never stray very far from the truck and there cooler full of beer and burgers.
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I've been off the beaten path more than once, I've never left meat "till later"... I keep working till the meat is out, and that has ment one heck of a long day TWICE... At the end, it is always the right decision to get the meat out and not leave it to be scavanged. I don't think I'd shoot knowing that I couldn't pack out the meat right then.

Cheers
Jay
 
downed a moose a couple years ago in the late afternoon and my partner ended up twisting his knee real bad while we were packing out the first quarter. Ended up being a torn acl but we did not find out till later. Needless to say he was down for the count. Got the help of some fellow hunters from camp and the next morning at the crack of dawn headed up to the kill site. I had piled the deadfall over the kill in such a way that it would be protected by all but the largest of predators.... didn't do a bit of good. 20 yards from the site, out blasts a few wolves... man, they did a number on the remaining quarters. I will never leave an animal like that again, we managed to salvage much of the meat but that's the last time i down a moose and have it fed to the dogs.
 
Jay said:
I've been off the beaten path more than once, I've never left meat "till later"... I keep working till the meat is out, and that has ment one heck of a long day TWICE... At the end, it is always the right decision to get the meat out and not leave it to be scavanged. I don't think I'd shoot knowing that I couldn't pack out the meat right then.

Cheers
Jay
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When was the last time you shot an animal on top of a mountain in the rockies in late afternoon?
 
pharaoh2 said:
You know what. Like my a$$. You do nothing to contribute worthwhile anyways. Who are you to judge? A$$.
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And your massive amount of hunting high in the mountains on horseback makes you an expert? You seem to have lots of opinions on a subject you obviously know nothing about.

When was the last time you were high in the mountains with horses at night?
 
The scenario has been repeated many times at moose camp. Any moose shot in the last half hour of legal shooting time gets tagged, gutted and left overnight. The only exception is when the animal drops very close to the road, at which point we load it on the trailer right-away (quite rare).

We always leave an article of clothing (preferably sweaty..), on nearby branches and show up for work before sunrise the next day. So far, we haven't had a single case where critters disturb the carcass overnight.

With chainsaws, knives and associated sharp objects in the forest, too many things can go wrong in the dark.
 
Hunting Moose in the B.C. central interior, over quite a number of years, there have been a few occasions where I've had to leave meat in the bush over night. There are a fair number of Grizzly and Black Beasr in that area and I've never had problems with either taking meat. In a few instances I've left a shirt or other piece of clothing on the kill and wheather that's helped or not I don't know, but I've never lost meat.
 
I watched the show, but not being a hunter myself, why was there so much fur missing from the animal when they came back the next morning in this instance ?
 
If I remember correctly both front quarters were missing.
When he shot the caribou, it looked as if the bullet hit a little forward on the left front quarter.
Did anybody notice the exit wound on the caribou's right front quarter in one of the shots, must have damaged a lot of meat.
Isn't it interesting that the quarters that were "stolen by animals" were the two quarters that would have had a lot of damaged meat.;):confused:
 
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