So, is your hunting an adventure, or is it go out back behind the house and hunt.

Hunt out the back door, front door is fishing. Very fortunate to live in quiet part of BC, not many people around. Do 99% of my hunting (mostly grouse) here but one adventure of sorts this year. Went grouse hunting with Harley near Lac la Hache. Old skid road that is heavily hunted according to the guy who house was there. He said a guy went up and down that road a couple times/week with his dog. Harley and I were on a first name basis with many of the birds around home and it had been the only place he had ever hunted. I wondered how he would do? He put me on three birds over a couple miles, they were all deeper in the bush. Bagged one and missed two. Good day.
 
The two deer we got had to be dragged about 1.5 miles over hill and dale.
They were taken at the outer limits of the area we hunt and no access to the area with anything other than the shanks mares.

David
 
Nothin wrong with slidin open patio door and lettin loose. It's a great way to fill the freezer.
But I do so love packin the ponies and gettin lost in some new turf
 
I foresee a time when I will hunt the back yard, I'm not getting any younger, but for now, while I'm able, I will search out the hard spots. The challenge is all part of it for me.
Pre-atv, I dragged deer for miles. Now, I use the ATV, but find challenges just getting it to the animal. I still walk to my stand, I've not progressed to the point I need to sit on my ATV for that. Some day maybe, but I hope I can hold that off a while longer. I appreciate the early morning quiet, and the walk under the stars. Even if I do (as I did this year) have to walk a mile or two back to camp to get it, if I'm successful.
 
well it depends on the hunt, for moose, its more an adventure with a wall tent setup and all the work and equipement related to it, for deer, I go back to the family farm where we have a nice hunting camp maybe a km from the house. I also started hunting right in the back of the house about 200M out, because there are a few nice specimens there... hard not to go when this is going around...
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I live in Toronto so every hunt is an adventure. My hunt camp is 18km back into the woods and every trip yields different challenges. This year I drove 12hrs to southern IL for some bow hunting and I'm looking at various other opportunities. I enjoy travelling for different hunts. I'd love to be able to shoot a deer on my own land but I also like getting away for a few days also. I got a little sick of hunting with my group at our camp. It's a lot more group think and same old stories/runs/dynamics and while it's comfortable and familiar it's not as exciting as visiting new country with new game and/or people. I like doing my own thing and need a little variety/adventure in my hunting/fishing. I know guys that shoot deer/catch fish the same way for decades and while effective it's just not as fun if you can do it in your sleep.

I'm sure I'd get bored in short order shooting animals in my backyard but I'd like to experience it just once.

Patrick
 
Usually within minutes of my door step, not usually more than an hour away. I like to get out walking and getting away from the truck hunting puds when I'm after big game.
 
Did the elk/sheep hunt thing for 45 yrs...back pack or horse back, lots of adventures in the high rocks

Deer hunting for the same period was always within 5 mi of home...lots of adventures here as well, truckloads of game that was easy to find.

Now due to health limitations, I just do the "back yard" thing...sometimes I have a hard time finding a chain short enough to hook the quad up without it already having part of it in the shop already LOL....I think the furthest deer from the house in the last 5 yrs was within 80 yrds.
 
For the most part, I hunt remote... really remote... as in; "nobody has ever walked here before" remote... but it is a huge amount of work... it is it's own reward, game or no game... but usually with game and sometimes lots of it... and fish. Sitting on a rock point beside a campfire with stars strewn across a velvet sky and the howling of wolves echoing across the silver water... you just take a deep breath, blow it out and thank the creator for the opportunity to be there.
 
Oh boy. This was one of the most exciting/adventurous hunting seasons, and the least productive. (Not to say that my teams didn't hunt hard. Kudo's to all my guys on each adventure, they worked it hard)

September - The Adventure
I started in September on a plane from Ottawa Ontario to Calgary Alberta. Met our team in Red Deer and made our way to Hinton in search of big Bull Elk in the foothills of the Rockies. Saw more game in a week than I see most years. Could have taken 2 whitetail on the first night, but passed them up. (Afterall, we were there for Elk) We saw, a family of Bull moose, whitetail deer, mule deer, back bears, wolves, bighorn sheep and 2 bull Elk in Jasper National Park where shooting them is frowned upon. lol. GREAT trip, very exciting and a place I will definitely hunt again. This was our first hunt in 5-6000ft of elevation. The hiking, the exploration was second to none.

October - Up North
Back to Ontario to regroup and set out with my moose gang. 20 hrs of driving later from Ottawa to 21A WITH a Bull tag, a cow tag and calf tags. (Albeit...it's always when we have a bunch of tags, we see nothing. This hunt was no exception)
Spent a week in clear, crisp weather ranging from 5 to lows of -8 at nighttime, in heat-less tents and warm sleeping bags. Getting up at 0500 was definitely WAKING up! Myself and my team did it, every day. We hunted hard. We hunted our best opportunities. We hunted the forest, the lakes, the sign, the trails and the cuts. In the end, it was another great adventure, that unfortunately we did not capitalize on. A couple extra days on this trip could have made the difference, but we were out of time.

November - The Back Yard
South of Ottawa in WMU's 67, 66 etc. Although time off was limited, we still assembled our 6 man gang for the whitetail gun hunt. No doe tags, and not a single deer seen. Some sign, but not nearly as much as preceding years. Talking to our neighboring gangs, and unfortunately they were having the same luck. So the gun hunt left us empty as well. (I can hear the stomach grumbles coming from my freezer which is almost hitting the warning mark! LOL)

December - Still in my back yard
I continue to bow hunt WMU65 as much as I can. December is a busy month so it's hard to find the time. Nonetheless, I get out there every moment I can. Scared one going to my stand last week, and I'm on the trail of a very very large buck whom I hope to capitalize on by the time January 1st rolls around.

After the new year.....
Well, I can say one thing, there's a bloody boat load of Coyotes where I live/hunt. Winter will be spent with a couple of my brethren dumping as many of these critters as possible in hopes of thinning the herd and helping our food survive!

That's my story of a great GREAT season without the hoped results.

And even if we came up empty....we will never stop!
Keep your stick on the ice.
Fordy
 
My deer hunt was an adventure, playing hide and seek with a black bear. It kept eating the bait, then while it was still dark, it would amuse itself by sneaking up on me. No deer were shot during the gun season. We get our last chance next week for the controlled hunt.
 
They're all adventures. I try to get away most years for a hunt far from home, especially for game animals not available near home. But stepping out the back door and heading out to sit on stand or stillhunt the back forty for deer is, in its own way, every bit as exciting.
 
jjohnwm said:
They're all adventures. I try to get away most years for a hunt far from home, especially for game animals not available near home. But stepping out the back door and heading out to sit on stand or stillhunt the back forty for deer is, in its own way, every bit as exciting.
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Snap out of it, you're in MB now, not ON. Everything here is "back 160". :)
 
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