Did YOU apply for the Ontario Elk Hunt ?

Man I thank the lord I can just buy a tag every year. I've eaten elk for almost 20 straight years.

Thankfully there is no "non-resident" season in Saskatchewan. That's not to be an ass, but it's nice to have benefits in your own province and know that continuing to pay taxes at home gets you something.

If you guys do ever get drawn, be careful getting a bull. "Buck Fever" ceases to exist as "Bull Fever" actually leaves you unable to walk when you get one. Crazy adrenalin rush.
 
CreamySmooth said:
Man I thank the lord I can just buy a tag every year. I've eaten elk for almost 20 straight years.

Thankfully there is no "non-resident" season in Saskatchewan. That's not to be an ass, but it's nice to have benefits in your own province and know that continuing to pay taxes at home gets you something.

If you guys do ever get drawn, be careful getting a bull. "Buck Fever" ceases to exist as "Bull Fever" actually leaves you unable to walk when you get one. Crazy adrenalin rush.
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I have never even shot a buck and i have buck fever! lol . I LOVE elk meat it has to be my favorite meat, near a buddies house where i hunt there is a general store that sells it from a game farm down the road it is delicious! i would love the chance to hunt an elk, i have a feeling it won't be here in ontario sadly, althought i will keep applying!! I am somewhat new to hunting working on getting a bear / deer by myself and not having someone else guide me like i did my first hunt but i will make an exception if i can save up enough money to travel somewhere for a bull elk, I don't necessarily like going just for a bull and "Trophy" Hunting but if i am paying a lot of money to go somewhere to shoot the elk i would love a european mount done up forsure! (If i get drawn here for a Cow i will still do a European mount! lol) Have a memory saved ( Also more meat on a bull I am all for that! )
 
CreamySmooth said:
Man I thank the lord I can just buy a tag every year. I've eaten elk for almost 20 straight years.

Thankfully there is no "non-resident" season in Saskatchewan. That's not to be an ass, but it's nice to have benefits in your own province and know that continuing to pay taxes at home gets you something.

If you guys do ever get drawn, be careful getting a bull. "Buck Fever" ceases to exist as "Bull Fever" actually leaves you unable to walk when you get one. Crazy adrenalin rush.
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I have never even shot a buck and i have buck fever! lol . I LOVE elk meat it has to be my favorite meat, near a buddies house where i hunt there is a general store that sells it from a game farm down the road it is delicious! i would love the chance to hunt an elk, i have a feeling it won't be here in ontario sadly, althought i will keep applying!! I am somewhat new to hunting working on getting a bear / deer by myself and not having someone else guide me like i did my first hunt but i will make an exception if i can save up enough money to travel somewhere for a bull elk, I don't necessarily like going just for a bull and "Trophy" Hunting but if i am paying a lot of money to go somewhere to shoot the elk i would love a european mount done up forsure! (If i get drawn here for a Cow i will still do a European mount! lol) Have a memory saved ( Also more meat on a bull I am all for that! )
 
No, I won't apply untill there are sufficient Elk to warrant trying so. On an aside, my daughter is in her second year at a licensed outfitters camp in northen BC. Last year their main diet of meat consisted of Elk. I've never eaten Elk and she's on her second season of consumption. I guess I'll have to live my life vicariously through my daughter as I'll never be able to afford the fees of that outfit. And to think she used to be a vegitarian.
 
Applied first year but never since. I don't have the time to go knock on doors every weekend till the season opens if I get drawn, too much man power for such little success rate at finding an elk on a property that chances are I won't get permission to
 
If you don't have a friend or relative with land in the area why bother?
Don't think there is much crown land in the Bancroft area and if there was it would be "standing room only" crowded with hunters.
 
I'm still baffled as to why there is even an Elk hunt instead of relocating them. Technically since there are only a few thousand they are an endangered species.
 
In the early 70's the majority of the Burwash elk herd was shot off due to a claimed disease they were passing to livestock.No limit or license was required then when the smoke cleared it turns out the livestock gave it to the elk. Management at it's finest.BTW elk and caribou were coast to coast at one time...........Harold
 
Kondor said:
Wow little less than last year but cannot complain as we need to regrow their numbers still by far!!

i still would love the chance and even if i don't get the opporunity to hunt one my money still goes to the ministry to help fund things like this!

i more than likely wont as i applied as an individual sadly no one to join me
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I don't want to be a high jacker to this thread but .......your money will go to general coffers to be pissed away like the rest of our money on BS wind Mill power by Wynns liberals just like the McGuinty liberals before them.

The MNR (MINISTRY OF NO RESULTS) has been gutted financially to the point of uselessness.

To those of you who dream of drawing a moose or elk tag in Ontario I wish you well in your pursuit. Our group has given up.
It bears now..........there's lots of them due to the government caveing into special interest groups to stop that hunt in the past.
 
The greatest number of elk my s-i-l and I have seen at one time was 32. That was a few years ago and for the last couple never more than 1 or 2. The elk are still around since we find droppings and tracks in the woods when grouse hunting. The elk were seen on a private land owners property near the daughter and s-i-l's cottage. They certainly get your heart rate up when there is a group of them around.

Jim
 
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