First Grouse Day and already idiots

Thanx for the tips guys...yah I'm getting pretty miffed with the Locks as well...ironically last summer I was one of the gate keepers for one of the companies, but we would always open a gate for a Hunter as they made a fantastic free set of eyes for stuff that might be going on back there.

Problem is if the gates stayed open then all sorts of stuff began to happen.
North island is a perfect example of this...in the Courtney Comox area them logging roads are car theif drop off points, and other such crime.

Thanx for the tip on Mount Benson Rohann. :)
 
Calum said:
Thanx for the tips guys...yah I'm getting pretty miffed with the Locks as well...ironically last summer I was one of the gate keepers for one of the companies, but we would always open a gate for a Hunter as they made a fantastic free set of eyes for stuff that might be going on back there.

Problem is if the gates stayed open then all sorts of stuff began to happen.
North island is a perfect example of this...in the Courtney Comox area them logging roads are car theif drop off points, and other such crime.

Thanx for the tip on Mount Benson Rohann. :)

I agree theres some loosers that get in there, but the Logging companys with all the bloody money they make could get keys cut and offer them to us GOOD guys right ;)
How hard would that be. I lived in Australia so i know how to shut a gate. :D
 
Calum said:
My Grouse day here on Vancouver Island was sort of Crap...

Started off by discovering that a logging company had turned my Grouse spot from last year into a moonscape...even the creek, and the waterfall where gone. Nothing but turned up stumps for acres. :(

Then I decided to walk down a back road to try to find some unspoiled part, and was met by a big pick-up truck parked in the middle of the access road, and then 6 rangy very aggressive mutts charged out of the brush at me, and began to size me up circle etc.

I was cradling my 80 year old pump .22 in my arms and planning my next move when an old Indian guy in the truck started yelling "Bad Dogs", He didn't even get out to apologize or even to wrangle his reservation mutts back in, or even to simply say hi, he just kept yelling 'Bad dogs".

I surmised that one could forget finding Grouse in the vicinity with those mutts loose in the brush... :mad:

So I back tracked and headed off to Gordon River, and had a little walk about...nothing, squat nadda.

But a Km or so on the road on the way back to Lake Cowichan some sort of dark brown ferret/ mink critter ran across the road in front of me, and while I was slowing down to check that out approx 4 Grouse ran across the road as well.

I pulled over and got out for a closer look, and to ID them, but they wanted nothing of me, and scampered off cooing, and clucking out of camera range up a very steep hillside thick with brush...while I was checking this out behind my on the other side of the road a big black bear decided to boot back down into the ravine, making a hell of a racket.

So I didn't bring anything home to eat, but I saw some critters, and took some pics.

I'm Kind'a depressed over the amount of development going on in this area. :(
Sorry if you have already read this boring rant on the Hunting BC site.

That would likely be a Stoat, they prey mostly on rabbits and bird egg's

Sorry to hear about your hunting spot :(
 
Calum said:
Thanx for the tips guys...yah I'm getting pretty miffed with the Locks as well...ironically last summer I was one of the gate keepers for one of the companies, but we would always open a gate for a Hunter as they made a fantastic free set of eyes for stuff that might be going on back there.


Yeah, like today. I told my next door neighbour about the gate being shut up were my dad got his first grouse today. He said that gate hasnt been locked in 5 years....:confused: :rolleyes:
 
So Calum, moving to PG? 4 of the 5 from yesterday... (Amphibious's Birds) all from the same covey, he's a machine! ;)

GrouseSept92006.JPG
 
Calum said:
OK what gauge is that bad boy? :)


It looks like way too much gun for grouse.
No wonder he got 4. The birds look like they died from concussion.
It's like using a MOAB when a surgical strike is called for! :p


Don't mind me, I'm just jealous, because I have to work this week and am missing the opening! :mad:

Three more sleeps! :D
 
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