I started hunting so far back...........

John Y Cannuck

John Y Cannuck

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This thread is intended to be humorous, but I'll start off with the truth.

I started hunting so far back, I hunted under a dear/bear license.

We all wore red plaid and flip over red/green hats like Red Green wears on his show.

My first pair of long johns had a two button flap on the back and were itchy as hell.

Hunters could and did sit on lawn chairs along the highway to hunt. (Never did that and I always wondered how many shots were fired across the highway)
 
oh deer.....

way back before quads were a thing and before there were many trikes, hunting was done on sleds, so until it snowed you were walking or on the road. We also did a lot of hunting from 4X4 trucks on the cutlines and trails. If you had an Argo you could go anywhere.

then trikes started showing up and the trails were nicely packed down, no one was trying to get muddy or stuck in the mud so everyone tended to maintain the trails a little as they went. Quads were new in the mid 80's, and it wasn't really till the 90's that quadding and trail riding became popular and then mudding... which really destroyed the trails.

so now were back to walking or waiting till everything is frozen solid.

oh and back when I started hunting Moose tags were available, all tags were available with only a few were on a limited entry draw. We wore red jackets and hats as well.
 
$1000 bucks worth of camo clothing is not needed.

I still know VERY successful hunters that wear rubber boots and blue jeans with a plaid flannel jacket from Walmart.
Add a $10 orange vest and $10 orange toque and your ready to go.
 
Not sure if it counts, but I started fishing so long ago that there used to be salmon in my river, and you were allowed to fish for them and even keep them.

As for hunting, I still stick to the same tried and true methods; wake up early and go out on foot.
 
Sheep, Moose, and Grizzly were over the counter tags, there was a R4 Caribou draw, Elk weren't 6 point, Mule Deer weren't 4 point and I was 15 years away from owning a computer and I'd never even heard of the internet. Never mind the guns that a guy could buy.

I'm not even that old....
 
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I started hunting back when plastic CIL Canucks were newly introduced, and paper CIL shotgun ammo was still on the shelf.
If you ever had shotshells turn to mush in your pocket, from a West Coast downpour, you would really like plastic shells.
 
Hunted out of a 56 GMC pickup with 6 of us to push bush using good old iron sighted "Smellies" and surplus ammo with tips ground off to make them legal. Only the extravagant guys had scopes and were looked at as less manly. Our hunting knives were made by my uncle out of old circular saw blades with an old work glove for a sheath.
 
When I started hunting in Ab , you bought a single game tag (yes the metal ones) and could kill only one animal with that tag but it could be either moose deer or elk...your choice. Ther were no cattle grazing in the Forest Protection area's and game was plentiful....now their winter grazing areas are all eat off by the cattle and multiples of available species tags ( I have had up to 6 different deer tags available to me for one season) have made a lot of hunts just a walk in the "wilderness" for the fun of it.
 
I hauled my first hind bull moose quarter probably a mile to the truck in an old MNR forest fire hose pack with a forehead tump line and all. Took about 4 hours before the tump line crease on my forehead disappeared
 
9.3mauser said:
I remember those... ten bucks if I recall correctly.

I also remember the "licence plate" you used to have to display on your back.

No fishing licence back then either... you just grabbed a pole and went fishing.
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I still have one of those old "license plate" things you were supposed to wear on your back, can't remember if it was on your cap or jacket.
 
fingers284 said:
When I started hunting in Ab , you bought a single game tag (yes the metal ones) and could kill only one animal with that tag but it could be either moose deer or elk...your choice. Ther were no cattle grazing in the Forest Protection area's and game was plentiful....now their winter grazing areas are all eat off by the cattle and multiples of available species tags ( I have had up to 6 different deer tags available to me for one season) have made a lot of hunts just a walk in the "wilderness" for the fun of it.
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I last saw one of those metal tags in about 2010, hunting with a Métis friend in far Northern Alberta. They were still issuing them at the time for Bison, for first nations / Métis / sustenance tags.
 
well way back when I started hunting seriously(1998) there was quads already, Argos for sure, jet boat of course, magnum rifles and big scopes, bipods and try pods… but it never really was my thing, I prefer on foot or in a canoe with my30-06 with a 2-7 scope and 180 bullets ! The only camo I own is a pair of gtx pant that were on sale. Wool and plaid is my camo!
Since then I have accumulated a few more rifles, bought some sold some but still no magnums maybe one day when I grew up hahaha
 
Back in the mid 1970's growing up in Newfoundland, I would often walk through town carrying my shotgun in my hand,
then hitch a ride out of town to a lake or somwhere for some duck or partridge hunting.

No problem getting rides, these days the only ride would be in the back of a cruiser.

Then if I was lucky enough to get a bird, no problem getting a ride back to town, with the gun and a bird in one hand,
the other with my thumb out.

My shotgun was a CIL in 16 gauge, and I was probably using CIL or Imperial shells.

I learned to drive my Dad's truck (three on the tree) on old logging roads, while he sat in the passenger seat,
sipping on a beer in a stubby bottle with his Savage 99 in .300 savage caliber, keeping an eye out for a moose.

The Good Old Days!
 
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