Looking for hunting buddys in Alberta

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shell_guy

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Hey guys, I am new to Alberta and am looking for some shooting buddy. I like target shooting, coyotes, and am dying to try for prairie dogs/gophers since we dont have them back home in Nova Scotia. If anyone wants to get together and sqeeze some rounds off that would be great. I am in Red Deer and regularly travel between Red Deer and Calgary for work.
 
I get out a fair bit in the warmer months. Im in Calgary too. Feel free to shoot me a PM if you're in my neck of the woods.
 
Buy some rural landowner maps, use google earth/maps, knock on doors of cattle ranchers & politely ask for permission to shoot gophers in rural pasturelands.

Get your WINcard (first needed for fishing/hunting/trapping here) and then AlbertaRELM is your friend!

I don't think it's really needed just for pest shooting, (WINcard) but to use the AlbertaRELM website, it is a very useful tool.
 
Brutus said:
Buy some rural landowner maps, use google earth/maps, knock on doors of cattle ranchers & politely ask for permission to shoot gophers in rural pasturelands.

Get your WINcard (first needed for fishing/hunting/trapping here) and then AlbertaRELM is your friend!

I don't think it's really needed just for pest shooting, (WINcard) but to use the AlbertaRELM website, it is a very useful tool.
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Got WIN card and everything, just need a hunting buddy now. Hoping to find soneone that will let me tag along for a coyote hunt.
 
I also live in red deer, I religiously hunt every days off (when the wife & kid allow me) lol. In the off season yotes, gophers, and what any other varmints that find the way into my cross hairs. I'd be willing to help you out for draws and landowner permission. Fish and game has also bought a lot of quarter sections around pine lake lately to be used by sportsman. I would of couse like to meet and greet, I usually don't take on any partners, been burnt before. My young feller's to young to hunt so I mostly take other Junior hunters out with me try to get more of the young generation into hunting & fishing, It kept me out of trouble :)
Pm me if your interested
 
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Just a word of advice for beginners - the locals never call "gophers" , or more properly Richardson's ground squirrels, "prairie dogs" - that is another species entirely and PD's are a rare endangered species in Canada.
Have fun shooting gophers, ( almost nobody calls them ground squirrels) but please don't display your lack of experience by calling them prairie dogs. Good luck!
 
Longwalker said:
Just a word of advice for beginners - the locals never call "gophers" , or more properly Richardson's ground squirrels, "prairie dogs" - that is another species entirely and PD's are a rare endangered species in Canada.
Have fun shooting gophers, ( almost nobody calls them ground squirrels) but please don't display your lack of experience by calling them prairie dogs. Good luck!
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Another word of advice. You don't hunt gophers you shoot them. "I'm going gopher shooting." or "Wanna go shoot some gophers?" or "I'm going on a gopher shoot." Not a gopher hunt! lol
 
cam1936 said:
Another word of advice. You don't hunt gophers you shoot them. "I'm going gopher shooting." or "Wanna go shoot some gophers?" or "I'm going on a gopher shoot." Not a gopher hunt! lol
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But they have fangs I tell ya, fangs!!!

I'm up for an Alberta get together / shoot.
 
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