Looking for Hunt Camp

[Canadianbiggame]

I currently live in Lancaster Park Alberta, (CFB Edmonton). I am looking for someone who has a hunt camp that wants to split costs or membership dues for a hunt camp in alberta preferable north of Edmonton. Max distance of 8 hours. I have been hunting since I was 12 years old, lots of experience in the bush. I have been in the Canadian Forces for 10 years. The reason I'm looking for a hunt camp is because I can no longer hunt at my camp in ontario as I have been posted to Alberta. If anyone knows of any hunting camps looking for new members please let me know.
Thanks

 

[Big Game]

Hate to burst your bubble but you'll have a hard time finding a hunt camp in Alberta along the same lines as the ones in Ontario. Alberta doesn't have party hunting regulations like Ontario does so there isn't as much of a "hunt camp" culture out west. Your best bet is to try to hook up with a couiple of hunters from base and go on some hunts with them. Good Luck.

 

[Bluffton Bill]

the great thing is you can go buy a wall tent, drive about 3 hours north and set up your own camp for the season.

No lease fees, Not to crowded during the week and you will have 3 deer tags and maybe a special draw moose tag every couple of years.

Lots of oil and logging activity up there. Whitetails in reasonably good shape (despite a nasty winter last year. Find an area with lots of new cut blocks and a relatively secluded spot to camp and you are in business.

Piles of public land.

 

[fiddler]

x2

A wall tent, rifle, and a pick up truck makes a good hunting camp on any crown land you see stopping at. There are a gazillion places, all with oil patch roads, clearings, cut lines, abandoned leases, ect.

 

[Gatehouse]

I had never heard of the concept of a "hunt camp" until reading about it on CGN!

You are in the west now dude....The world is your oyster. No need to go tot he same cabin and sit in the same tree stand every year

 

[Canadianbiggame]

I like this idea of using a tent and hunting crown land. How much are the crown land maps? and how many people are hunting this land is it over crowded?

 

[Suka]

I'm sorry, but, Wow, are you new.

We did have a neighbor one year, an elderly couple was camped about 4 miles away. We stopped for coffee, they were nice.


Google earth is your friend.

 

[track]

I currently live in Lancaster Park Alberta, (CFB Edmonton). I am looking for someone who has a hunt camp that wants to split costs or membership dues for a hunt camp in alberta preferable north of Edmonton. Max distance of 8 hours. I have been hunting since I was 12 years old, lots of experience in the bush. I have been in the Canadian Forces for 10 years. The reason I'm looking for a hunt camp is because I can no longer hunt at my camp in ontario as I have been posted to Alberta. If anyone knows of any hunting camps looking for new members please let me know.
Thanks

You will get an eye opener once you hunted Alberta for a couple of years. If you live and hunt for many years in Alberta you will become spoiled with the diversity of flora and fauna. There are cabins that you can rent along lakes and rivers but "hunt camps" are non-existent as what Ontario hunters define.
Bon Chance!!!

 

[Suka]

Don't worry, you'll get it figured. Get a copy of the hunting regs to start: http://www.albertaregulations.ca/huntingregs/


You can head N, W, E, and even S for that matter and find crown land. There is open crown land, where you have every bit as much right to anyone else to be there, and there is crown lease land, where a farmer/rancher has leased the right to harvest the grass from a named parcel of crown land. With lease land you must get permission from the leaseholder to access. Here's a site where you can track down leased land and the contact person for permission:
http://xnet.env.gov.ab.ca/imf/imf.jsp?site=rec_access

Pm'd you.

 

[Canadianbiggame]

Thanks for the info guys I look forward to Living and hunting in alberta for many years to come. Sounds like I hit the jackpot for hunting.

 

[LordEvilPepper]

I have a couple of hunting ... "cabins" made from clear cut garbage wood... log home style stacked and lashed, just show up through the tarp on and I'm set for the night

 

[woodchopper]

Thanks for the info guys I look forward to Living and hunting in alberta for many years to come. Sounds like I hit the jackpot for hunting.

yes you did

I hunt zone 510, up towards Athabasca, last year there were 4 camps setup in about 50 square miles, it opens Nov 1st, I use an old trailer with a heater.

 

[SuperCub]

I had never heard of the concept of a "hunt camp" until reading about it on CGN!

There is something to be said about hunting with a good bunch of guys in a camp every year esp if some of those guys are family.

I did it with my grandfather, father and a couple of his friends when I was young. It is a good time. I miss it (and them).


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[Kenny_G2]

I had never heard of the concept of a "hunt camp" until reading about it on CGN!

You are in the west now dude....The world is your oyster. No need to go tot he same cabin and sit in the same tree stand every year

But how do you take the fridge, sink, queen size bed, sofa, gas stove, wine cabinet, sauna and 3 piece bathroom with you in a tent

I especially like the sauna and running water.

 

[Pathfinder]

The camp I rented last couple years had no running water and only an out house.....man that was roughin it !! Accomadations are a small part of the experience Im sure a wall tent hunt in AB would be awesome.

That being said I rented a camp with a hot water tank/shower this year....getting soft I guess