Who says all Vancouverites are bunny-hugging antis?

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I was just talking to my new neighbour across the street who bought the house and moved in several months ago. Turns out he's a hunter. We have a mutual friend it turns out several blocks away who is also a hunter. Previous owner was a hunter too. The owner before him too. And the guy renting the basement suite a few doors down across the street is a hunter too. He got a unicorn last year. Had a moose tag in his pocket and saw a spike bull. Funny thing is his brother had a moose LEH permit he says, and got skunked.

So that is three hunters on one block in Vancouver. Who'd a thunk it?
 
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MD said:
I was just talking to my new neighbour across the street who bought the house and moved in several months ago. Turns out he's a hunter. We have a mutual friend it turns out several blocks away who is also a hunter. Previous owner was a hunter too. The owner before him too. And the guy renting the basement suite a few doors down across the street is a hunter too. He got a unicorn last year. Had a moose tag in his pocket and saw a spike bull. Funny thing is his brother had a moose LEH permit he says, and got skunked.

So that is three hunters on one block in Vancouver. Who'd a thunk it?
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You never know what evil lurks in the mind of some men :evil:.



I'm totally kidding of course. There are more hunters living within the GVRD than many realize or would want to admit. The province would have that information via hunting license sales.
 
guy329 said:
Move west to Saskatchewan. No problem finding hunters here.
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No don't. It's too crowded, there's hardly any game or fish left, and all the good-looking women moved to the big cities - Vancouver, Toronto, etc. Vancouver seems to be promising, as MD describes in the original post, try there.
 
i'm in surrey and i have a few neighbours that are hunters. some people don't talk much but they sure notice when your packing up for a hunt. some people are reluctant to admit they have guns or hunt. not me all my neighbours know. they see me loading and unloading my shooting gear. lots of older people and they keep an eye out for suspicious looking people.
 
The majority of BC Hunters live in the lower mainland. On my rare visits there I often stop at the excellent store, Reliable Gun. It's always on a a weekday and it's often full of shooters. I'm sure weekends get busier.

It's not like the LML doesn't have plenty of hunters and shooters, It's just that there aren't many per capita. The further you get away from the city, the higher the percentage of hunters and shooters gets.
 
That’s awesome that you have like minded people around you.
But answer me this.

After time away from the lower mainland. How the hell to you go back to it.

I left 10yrs ago. Just going back to visit makes my skin Crawl.
 
regulate34 said:
That’s awesome that you have like minded people around you.
But answer me this.

After time away from the lower mainland. How the hell to you go back to it.

I left 10yrs ago. Just going back to visit makes my skin Crawl.
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Seeing as you asked: I live in one specific neighbourhood, not the whole Lower Mainland, but have access to whatever I may need in the LM.

I have some lifestyle choices that keep me here. I play in three different music groups for example. Here I can pick and choose who I play with. Up-country you pretty much have to play with whoever is around and sometimes there is not much choice.

Also, I can be at any one of my three or four chosen waterfowling spots in-season within 45 minutes. Can't think of anywhere else in BC I could do that.

This personal but my wife is semi-disabled and not getting any better. We used to have have 10 acres in the bush and we have been there, done that. She cannot live that kind of life any more, nor some place where you have to drive 40 kilometres to buy a pack of smokes or 100 to see a doctor.

It's not 100 Mile House, but living here gives me access to a lot of the province for hunting; either through Squamish-Whisltler-Lillooet, Hope-Lytton-Cache Creek, Coqihalla or Highway 3.

I like the variety in the grocery stores.
 
for a moment I thought someone took a picture of me at Jericho Beach park right after sunrise.
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MD said:
I was just talking to my new neighbour across the street who bought the house and moved in several months ago. Turns out he's a hunter. We have a mutual friend it turns out several blocks away who is also a hunter. Previous owner was a hunter too. The owner before him too. And the guy renting the basement suite a few doors down across the street is a hunter too. He got a unicorn last year. Had a moose tag in his pocket and saw a spike bull. Funny thing is his brother had a moose LEH permit he says, and got skunked.

So that is three hunters on one block in Vancouver. Who'd a thunk it?
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so vancouver is like whitehorse now.
 
MD said:
Seeing as you asked: I live in one specific neighbourhood, not the whole Lower Mainland, but have access to whatever I may need in the LM.

I have some lifestyle choices that keep me here. I play in three different music groups for example. Here I can pick and choose who I play with. Up-country you pretty much have to play with whoever is around and sometimes there is not much choice.

Also, I can be at any one of my three or four chosen waterfowling spots in-season within 45 minutes. Can't think of anywhere else in BC I could do that.

This personal but my wife is semi-disabled and not getting any better. We used to have have 10 acres in the bush and we have been there, done that. She cannot live that kind of life any more, nor some place where you have to drive 40 kilometres to buy a pack of smokes or 100 to see a doctor.

It's not 100 Mile House, but living here gives me access to a lot of the province for hunting; either through Squamish-Whisltler-Lillooet, Hope-Lytton-Cache Creek, Coqihalla or Highway 3.

I like the variety in the grocery stores.
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I’ll admit the coast dose have some good waterfowl hunting. I use to hunt dairy farms on the river near Langley/abbotsford

But it’s pretty good in the cariboo for birds. In a day on the atv behind the house I can be at 20+ ponds.
Not going to limit out in one spot tho.
Seeing a dr and travel to get groshries is just part of small town living.
 
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