What's the best province for hunting?

What's the best province for hunting

  • British Columbia

    Votes: 153 38.5%

  • Alberta

    Votes: 96 24.2%

  • Saskatchewan

    Votes: 52 13.1%

  • Manitoba

    Votes: 15 3.8%

  • Ontario

    Votes: 36 9.1%

  • Quebec

    Votes: 7 1.8%

  • New Brunswick

    Votes: 8 2.0%

  • Nova Scotia

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Newfoundland

    Votes: 12 3.0%

  • PEI or Territories

    Votes: 17 4.3%
  • Total voters
    397
People can post this poll as many times as they want but it won't change the answer. BC has the most huntable species and probably the most accessible back country.
 
BigUglyMan said:
People can post this poll as many times as they want but it won't change the answer. BC has the most huntable species and probably the most accessible back country.
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I do believe the second North American jurisdiction that closely follows BC for big game variety is Colorado. IIRC, Alberta is third or fourth, running very close with Montana.
 
About all we have here is lots of coyotes and a fair bit of black bears. Trout fishing is done in the southern half with the pickerel cleaning them up. I hunted deer every weekend this season and most Fridays too and saw a total of 4. 2 other guys who get deer every year failed to see a tail. Can't hunt moose unless you are a "special type" or chosen by God in the draw. A buddy and I went rabbit hunting a few days ago before any snow falls and saw 1 all day.

We doo have decent numbers of Grouse this year for some reason but the coyotes are working on that too!

I always get a laugh at the western hunters who say never to chamber a round till you are ready to shoot, things happen so close here in he thick woods and so fast you would never bag anything.



So I guess my vote is anywhere but here- should have moved to B.C. 20 years ago like my brother.
 
Cranky Pants said:
About all we have here is lots of coyotes and a fair bit of black bears. Trout fishing is done in the southern half with the pickerel cleaning them up. I hunted deer every weekend this season and most Fridays too and saw a total of 4. 2 other guys who get deer every year failed to see a tail. Can't hunt moose unless you are a "special type" or chosen by God in the draw. A buddy and I went rabbit hunting a few days ago before any snow falls and saw 1 all day.

We doo have decent numbers of Grouse this year for some reason but the coyotes are working on that too!

I always get a laugh at the western hunters who say never to chamber a round till you are ready to shoot, things happen so close here in he thick woods and so fast you would never bag anything.



So I guess my vote is anywhere but here- should have moved to B.C. 20 years ago like my brother.
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You talk as if only NS has trees and forests.
 
I can't vote because I have only hunted Ontario and the rest is hearsay from other guys. But even then I think each province has its perks and game. I liked hunting in Northern Ontario.. was a great place full of game.
 
My clue was all the names in pink and I was thinking "what the heck went on here?" then I noticed the date!

That pic of woods don't count- you can see through it!;)

Here's average woods here, no idea why it grows so damn thick here? The constant cutting doesn't help, need a good wildfire to clear things out -lol. no such thing as spot and stalk here.

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bearkilr said:
That's an easy one. Yukon/NWT/Nunavut. No large cities, no anti-hunters, little hunting pressure and lots of interesting game; Polar bear,Mountain goat, Grizzly, all species of caribou, sheep, moose, walrus, muskox, all kinds of furbearers, great fishing.
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really deadly up but today we have antis and they really make their voices heard and the hunters not ... but still the paradise for sure ...
 
Yah, Saskatchewan has managed to essentially eliminate the deer population and is currently trying to kill all the moose south of the treelike. Department of Waste and Mismanagement ...
 
Yes I'm Johnny Lately but here goes... :) Best Province, BC there is no comparison or even argument. It has more habitats and species than anywhere else you can hunt in all of North America, with open grassland, coastal rainforest, cactus and rattlesnake desert, giant mountains and glaciers, deep boreal forest, and on and on really. There is nowhere else like it on earth, in Africa I've been taken aback when the PHs ask you questions about BC, and know a startling amount about it. Most Canadians, and many BC residents even in the cities, have no idea how varied, diverse, and incredible it is either.

-Four species of deer (Blacktail, Whitetail, Mule, and Sitka).
-Three species of mountain sheep
-Two species of bears, both the most abundant populations in the country (one quarter of North America's Grizzlies are in BC).
-Mountain Goat
-Two wild species of Bison, wood and plains
-Giant Moose of two to three subspecies (Yukon/Alaska, Canada, and likely Shiras)
-Two species of Elk, including the largest species and the only place in Canada to host them, Roosevelts.
-Big mountain Caribou, and Woodlands too.

Small predators, all with seasons,

-Wolf
-Cougar
-Lynx
-Wolverine
 
saskcop said:
Yah, Saskatchewan has managed to essentially eliminate the deer population and is currently trying to kill all the moose south of the treelike. Department of Waste and Mismanagement ...
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It was the winterkill that eliminated so many deer. They keep selling licenses because they want the money we keep paying, and there aren't any deer to shoot so we won't make it worse.
 
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