Hunting Swift Current area

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My wife is thinking about us moving to Swift as that's where she grew up.
Living in Southern Alberta, we have pretty good deer hunting oportunities with elk and moose available too.
What can a Sask resident hunt, esp in the south, and maybe a few nights away from home for elk/moose?
How about birds?
 
Living around Swift you will have white tail, mule deer,antelope (when the season reopens), moose, elk, good upland and migratory and all the gophers you want.
 
I can get 2 antlerless deer on draw, a general whitetail, a general elk on rifle and a mule deer doe with the bow. I can get a moose up north this year with my 4 yrs priority in a few different zones.
How would this compare to Sask? How long for muley bucks? I'm guessing you can't get an elk every year.
 
We have no wildlife left, it will be several years before the game is back. Absolutely no upland birds left around Swift. There will be no antelope season in the foreseeable future. Local moose is draw and can be anywhere from 4 to 30 yrs for a tag. Local elk is draw and tough to get but not as bad. Muledeer is draw and generally 4 years. Whitetail are way down. You can hunt migratory around the river north of Swift and its pretty good. You can buy an over the counter muledeer tag for archery. If you don't mind travelling up north like Prince Albert there are a few zones you can buy a moose or elk tag.
 
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. We're just daydreaming, no real plans yet.
I like where we are now, 2 1/2 hrs from Great Falls MT, 1 1/2 from Waterton, 3 hrs from Kallispell. Mule deer and WT minutes from home. I shot an elk about 45 mins from home this year. Heading way up north for moose this year.
Also it does'nt look like there is anywhere to shoot restricted firearms around Swift either. Guess a guy would just have to shoot a lot of gophers!
 
billdick said:
Sorry to say but there are no gophers left either. They all starved to death during that 8 month winter we had a couple years ago. I hate to say it but I kinda miss them.
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You know, when they find a tree in that part of Saskatchewan, they put a fence around it and call it a Provincial Park. ;)


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migrant hunter said:
My wife is thinking about us moving to Swift as that's where she grew up.
Living in Southern Alberta, we have pretty good deer hunting oportunities with elk and moose available too.
What can a Sask resident hunt, esp in the south, and maybe a few nights away from home for elk/moose?
How about birds?
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From 1988 to 1999 I hunted whitetails in the Great Sandhills in zones 9&10. It is, or was fantastic for whitetail and numbers were endless, however since the CWD and severe winters lately I really don't know what the quality and quantity is at this time. Needless to say there were monster mule deer in those sandhills that would make my jaw drop, of course I couldn't hunt them because I was a out of province hunter. I hunted near the town of Kyle a few times for migratory and never in my life did I witness so many birds, and deafening as well with honking and so forth.
Good sharptail grouse in the sandhills as well with the odd flock of Hungarians. South of Swift Current near the town of Val Marie lies the Frenchman River with great deer hunting as well, however; don't know quality and quantity at this time........I don't think to good.
 
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