Ontario Moose Draw Results???
- Thread starter Slooshark1
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I feel for you. We barely got in for a guaranteed tag this year. It's our first year we couldn't qualify for a bull tag. Our group size has gone up from 3 to 13 for a guarantee. Time for our wives to get their hunting licences!
madtrapper143
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Steep Rock Lake NWO
If this is the first in 35 you have done well. Apply alone in my area and you will not see a tag for 7 to 10 years. As a group, how about 12 guys hunting 1 bull tag with no calf season. Now that is something to have a sad face about. Now I do hope it was just the lack of tags that caused you to miss. I would not want it to be illness etc.
Darryl
I don't apply in a specific area year after year... I move to where the stats give me the best chance at a tag... but that is not why I am not hunting moose... I did not apply this year because I am going on a BC hunt and an upland safari and have archery deer also, so I just don't have time for a moose hunt.
madtrapper143
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Steep Rock Lake NWO
That is a nice problem to have Good luck on your hunts.
Darryl
Darryl
I have many other hunting options as well but dearly love my moose hunting and will check first thing on Monday to see if we pulled a tag for this year.
I just fear the way things are going you will have to be (very soon) a rich American using the services of a registered/licensed outfitter to hunt moose in Ontario. They might be the only ones that end up with a tag the way it's going...
I just fear the way things are going you will have to be (very soon) a rich American using the services of a registered/licensed outfitter to hunt moose in Ontario. They might be the only ones that end up with a tag the way it's going...
In years past when our group got more tags than we wanted I contacted the Ministry and asked if there wasn't some way to turn the excess in so some one else could get one and they will not even consider it. Too much trouble for them I guess.
Jim
Jim
freddyfour
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
Nothing for us in 61, not surprised though.
Normally we didn't have the numbers to apply as a group so as to be guaranteed getting tags. We hunt in the far north in fly in camps so we just apply individually and so far have done well in getting tags.
JIm
Jim... you guys need to read and understand the stats better... if you are in the "far North in fly in camps" then the group size requirement for a guaranteed tag is LOWER not higher... also applying as a group is ALWAYS beneficial unless you are hoping to receive multiple tags... it sounds like you don't want multiple tags, to keep the maximum number of applicants in Pool 1 for the following year, so apply as a group regardless of whether or not you neet the guaranteed group size number.
HC - I understand very well how the party system works. With the system we have been following we normally get an excess of tags. Better to have too many and have the ones we want. If the Ministry is too lazy to accommodate hunters who might end up with an excess but who would be prepared to turn unwanted ones in then unfortunately other hunters are the ones to suffer.
As an example (IMO) of poor policy take moose applications. You have to buy a license in order to go in the draw. If you fail in the draw except for a calf tag which is only good, in our case, a month after our hunt week is booked. In order to get the camp and time we want we have to book a year ahead. The MNR does not rebate even a portion of the fee so we would lose all around. And yet they do impose a minimum fee to apply for elk. I asked them why they couldn't (wouldn't) do this for moose and never got a satisfactory answer. When we hunted Wyoming throughout the 1980's the state required you to submit the full license fee when applying. If not drawn I believe they refunded all but $5.
I guess the MNR is so cash starved they can not afford to adopt something similar.
For me personally it is now academic as this will be my last year to hunt moose. I do not plan to go next year due to age.
Jim
As an example (IMO) of poor policy take moose applications. You have to buy a license in order to go in the draw. If you fail in the draw except for a calf tag which is only good, in our case, a month after our hunt week is booked. In order to get the camp and time we want we have to book a year ahead. The MNR does not rebate even a portion of the fee so we would lose all around. And yet they do impose a minimum fee to apply for elk. I asked them why they couldn't (wouldn't) do this for moose and never got a satisfactory answer. When we hunted Wyoming throughout the 1980's the state required you to submit the full license fee when applying. If not drawn I believe they refunded all but $5.
I guess the MNR is so cash starved they can not afford to adopt something similar.
For me personally it is now academic as this will be my last year to hunt moose. I do not plan to go next year due to age.
Jim
