skelly31489
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- Toronto, Ontario
Firstly, thank you for opening this thread.
My name is Scott, I live in the city of Toronto, and I am very new to hunting. I have lived there my entire life, so all my friends and family are here in the city and surrounding areas. My father used to be a hunter on the east coast in Newfoundland, but hasn't hunted since he moved to Toronto. We both just received out firearms licenses and hunting licences so we have a reason to spend more time together. That being said, we don't know many people with land or farms that we can hunt on, nor can we afford to buy a plot ourselves.
We went out this weekend looking for turkey in the Bancroft area (my father, brother in law, and myself). We got skunked. We walked around in the bush for hours the night before and tried to find a good spot, and when we decided, OK, this is the spot, we set up camp and went out there before sunrise, just to get soaked in heavy rain and covered in mud, dredging through the thickest bush i have ever seen, which isn't a problem because that's half the fun, but not hearing a single gobble or yelp the whole time is disheartening.
By lunch time we had enough of it and decided to pack up. We all had a great time just being in the woods just observing nature. We began driving home and were scoping farmers fields and they were littered with turkey, just sitting there, taunting us. From time to time we would pop in to the houses on the property and try and talk to the people who owned the lots, and their responses would be either, their family hunts there, or they would kind of give some sort of awkward response (rightfully so, some stranger is knocking on your door dressed head to toe in camouflage asking for permission to hunt on their property).
We are all very respectful, responsible, clean, and safe people and we would like to make some friends to let us hunt on their property (this is a very challenging thing to achieve when you live in the city), or even point us in the right direction of what to try next.
Please feel free to PM me or respond in this thread. If you want to talk more, you can pm me your phone number, or i will pm you mine so we can talk more!
My name is Scott, I live in the city of Toronto, and I am very new to hunting. I have lived there my entire life, so all my friends and family are here in the city and surrounding areas. My father used to be a hunter on the east coast in Newfoundland, but hasn't hunted since he moved to Toronto. We both just received out firearms licenses and hunting licences so we have a reason to spend more time together. That being said, we don't know many people with land or farms that we can hunt on, nor can we afford to buy a plot ourselves.
We went out this weekend looking for turkey in the Bancroft area (my father, brother in law, and myself). We got skunked. We walked around in the bush for hours the night before and tried to find a good spot, and when we decided, OK, this is the spot, we set up camp and went out there before sunrise, just to get soaked in heavy rain and covered in mud, dredging through the thickest bush i have ever seen, which isn't a problem because that's half the fun, but not hearing a single gobble or yelp the whole time is disheartening.
By lunch time we had enough of it and decided to pack up. We all had a great time just being in the woods just observing nature. We began driving home and were scoping farmers fields and they were littered with turkey, just sitting there, taunting us. From time to time we would pop in to the houses on the property and try and talk to the people who owned the lots, and their responses would be either, their family hunts there, or they would kind of give some sort of awkward response (rightfully so, some stranger is knocking on your door dressed head to toe in camouflage asking for permission to hunt on their property).
We are all very respectful, responsible, clean, and safe people and we would like to make some friends to let us hunt on their property (this is a very challenging thing to achieve when you live in the city), or even point us in the right direction of what to try next.
Please feel free to PM me or respond in this thread. If you want to talk more, you can pm me your phone number, or i will pm you mine so we can talk more!
