Many trips vs one trip (moose)

To hunt unfamiliar territory I like long stretches of time.

Every walk is scouting new ground, and it gives you time to figure out the terrain and how the animals are using it, so every day your chances of connecting improve. If you see sign in one area, and then leave for a week, the animals (especially moose, which seem to go pretty well wherever they want in a rather large "territory" they like) may be miles away. Spot something late in the day and you have time to return the next morning. A smaller percentage of hunting time is spent setting up and taking down stuff. It just seems more efficient to spend a longer period of time in one area.

As for being worried about getting "skunked", you better not be upset by that possibility. It's called hunting, not shooting. Hunting is never, ever a sure thing.
 
rral22 said:
To hunt unfamiliar territory I like long stretches of time.

Every walk is scouting new ground, and it gives you time to figure out the terrain and how the animals are using it, so every day your chances of connecting improve. If you see sign in one area, and then leave for a week, the animals (especially moose, which seem to go pretty well wherever they want in a rather large "territory" they like) may be miles away. Spot something late in the day and you have time to return the next morning. A smaller percentage of hunting time is spent setting up and taking down stuff. It just seems more efficient to spend a longer period of time in one area.

As for being worried about getting "skunked", you better not be upset by that possibility. It's called hunting, not shooting. Hunting is never, ever a sure thing.
Click to expand...

Agreed it is not a sure thing and I don't think it is... but my wife is not from a hunting family and I got two deer last year my first year out and now I "know" what I'm doing... so she think a moose and two deer is reasonable....

I have tried many times to tell her that there may be a few years I get skunked. But apparently that will because I will not have tried hard enough or smart enough....

So I'm planning like a sob so she is happy.
 
j_06 said:
Pretty hard too not stumble upon moose up here in 7a, but is a ways from Kamloops. Finding a legal bull once the entire lower mainland hunter population migrates up here is another thing.
Click to expand...

Aye same here within a week of opening it apparently gets a lot tougher down here. With my job I can take time off whenever so I can be scouting and confirming were the animals are the day before open season and be ready at the Crack of dawn opening day God willing.

Yeah it is a drive... but the odds sound a he'll of a lot better
 
DrWho said:
Been a very ,very, very busy area the last few years .
To me it seems like every hunter from the lower main land and Vancouver Island is hunting region 3+8 .
Lots of new logging area with roads and with new roads your going to see lots + lots of quads + Side X Sides.
Click to expand...
One of the reasons I like region 7 due to it's ATV restrictions.
 
j_06 said:
Pretty hard too not stumble upon moose up here in 7a, but is a ways from Kamloops. Finding a legal bull once the entire lower mainland hunter population migrates up here is another thing.
Click to expand...

I feel your pain.

I hate it when some family from Fort St. John or Tumbler Ridge comes with a sick or injured kid and takes up space at our Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
 
Rugdoc said:
I feel your pain.

I hate it when some family from Fort St. John or Tumbler Ridge comes with a sick or injured kid and takes up space at our Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
Click to expand...

Not the same thing bud. Even worse you involved kids.

Can we keep this clean, there was no need for this and it did not contribute to what I was hoping to find out
 
John Y Cannuck said:
If I didn't vanish out of contact, work would be after me all the time.
Click to expand...

Aye, my bosses will call, but not really try to get me. Basically with this outfit you do what you want when you want. If you want work show up, if you show up to late and their is no cars your out of luck.
 
Rugdoc said:
I feel your pain.

I hate it when some family from Fort St. John or Tumbler Ridge comes with a sick or injured kid and takes up space at our Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
Click to expand...

What in the actual ####, seriously? I have no problem with it, it's all out moose. Simply stating its hard when there is a HUGE influx of hunters. Your comment is honestly ####ing disgusting and goes to show how poorly managed health care services are here too boot. NO ONE around here wants to be there, sick or not thanks to attitudes like yours. Ones a sick child and ones a hobby just wow, way too keep it in perspective man. Maybe if half the money that went to useless #### in the LML went north we wouldn't have to be leave our lives behind to go care of our children. Meh, that's a pipes dream though. Really shows why a lot of you big city #######s aren't welcome by many.
 
Last edited:
John Y Cannuck said:
I'd go north, the remote experience will be better, and the hunters probably fewer.
Click to expand...


Up north ... It's an experience you have to do at least once; it's an adventure and you'll see more remote areas and incredible wilderness .... And less hunters or even people depending where you go. Otherwise, you pretty much need need LEH or hope for a spike bull. Plus, the moose are bigger up north and that means more meat.
 
Of course, timing is everything and the rut has come later in recent years and we ended up north too early in my last couple trips (I haven't gone in years though) .... You take your chances when you schedule a long trip and, as has already been posted, that's hunting.
 
conor_90 said:
j_06 do you understand the concept of sarcasm?

Posted from North East BC
Click to expand...
I do, but honestly that's his first thought when I talk about the LML hunters? Myself knowing two kids under 8 who lost their battles as well as my own father who I had to travel to see slowly die, I find jokes dealing with sick kids or people, kinda sick sarcastic or not.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom