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unstableryan

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I'm working way out in the bush outside of Hudson Bay Starting in a week or two and I want to take my new 10/22. I've been reading the hunting synopsis and it's way more confusing than BC's. Nothing tasty is open until the 15th of Sept. right?


I'll be within range of Quads, Cats and Skidders for the first bit, then using helicopters for the rest. It's supposed to be a bit muddy where I am going.. So do birds even live there?

Sorry, I know little about this location. Last time I did this job I was 135km north of la Ronge. Saw a couple grouse up there... too bad they weren't as big as the ravens.


Ryan
 
Ryan, sounds interesting. I presume you are dong forestry work, or surveying of some type.
Do birds live there? Should be good grouse country in the fall, much better than north of La Ronge.
But, I can assure you of what does live there. Mosquitoes!!!! Biting flies, and luckily, season just ending for those vicious horse flies. The type that draw blood every time they hit you.
I presume you've been in mosquito country before, but I do not include southern BC as being mosquito country.
You will also see a larger, better example of moose, than are the southern BC variety. Note that I said SOUTHERN BC variety, not our more northerly type.
Cheers, Bruce
 
Actually I am going for mining exploration. I think it's coal this time but I am not sure. It was gold the last time and I was about 135km north of la Ronge. I have only been as far east as Tisdale before. This time I am going a bit farther.

I am not quitting my job as an A/V/security technician, I asked the boss for a month off as it's a slow month. We just finished a huge project and we start another in the fall so it's a good time. I need to stir things up a bit and the money will be good too. Damn EE is going to get some of it.. I know it.

The first few sites we are going to be using the skidder and cat to move the drill. After that gets a bit much, we are using a helicopter for everything. We have to take the drill apart into the engine, transmission and mast and take them separately. Should be fun.

I'll take lots of pictures. Sounds like an interesting job.

Ryan
 
Upland birds (sharp-tail grouse, hungarian partridge, ruffed grouse) do open on Sept. 15. Pheasant isn't until Oct. 1 but I think you're too far north for that anyways. Rimfire or shotgun.
 
we are going to be out in the middle of nowhere. I hope I get to eat some grouse. I'll probably buy an elk or half of one from a farm in Tisdale I've dealt with before. I got a cow last time, grain fed for a month before slaughter. 332 lbs cut and wrapped was 480 dollars. It was $200 more for a second hand stand up deep freeze from a friend to keep it. That elk was amazing. I bbq'ed till I was almost tired of it.

Ryan
 
Your farm elk would be similar to the elk we had, 150 miles N/W of there, when I was a kid growing up. An older brother would shoot really fat, cow elk, one that hadn't had a calf that year, but had been eating in the grain fields all fall.
The ordinary wild elk from that country are far superior to the southern BC elk, in quality of the meat. Same goes for moose and even the deer. I think it is because in a country with cold, long winters, the game must lay on an extra layer of fat to survive the long winter.
I think this is the reason the moose of northern BC are equally as good as the moose of other areas of northern Canada, with the long, hard winters.
 
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