Bowhunting Canada

[Sligh1]

I know these are some silly questions OR things you've described COUNTLESS times in many posts (many that I've read) OR just plain obvious BUT had a few questions for you coming from a whitetail crazed fool who only hunts the midwest. Some of these questions are silly like I said....

Don't you freeze your tail off up there?!?!? Seriously, I mean most people will laugh at that thought BUT when it's 20 degrees in Iowa- I can wear 10 layers of premium clothing and pac boots and I STILL GET COLD- I can take it but sometimes it's rough. How do you deal with that, how cold are we talking, how can it even be bearable when it's -15 degrees and wind or something?????

Tell me what the hunting pressure is like. For instance, opening gun, do you see orange all over and hear tons of shots OR is it quiet and you don't run into folks. Same with bow, lots of guys or have places all to yourself? Hard finding permission or is most public forest? Are folks SUPER TERRITORIAL up there, say by leasing stuff, hunter politics, trying to lock land down OR having problems with too many people?

Deer numbers super high in spots and super low in others? Like, during the rut- would you ever see 15-20 bucks in a day?

Do folks in Canada think they have the best place on earth to hunt OR do many of the folks want to come to Iowa, etc?

Shed hunting WILD?!?! Find several 180-200" deer or is that super rare? Find lots of sheds?

Alberta, Sask, Ontario, Manitoba- big differences between these places? Opinion on the generic best?

Canada is the only place I really want to go, possibly Alberta. Really just trying to visualize what I could expect- and I know that's a generic picture as I am sure it varies a ton for place to place. SOMEDAY!!!! Thanks!!!!

 

[buck1979]

Sask,
Lots of pressure....for us anyway. And it depends where/when. and it depends what lots of pressure is. On each 160 acre peice of land theres likely a hunter, but not every day. Archery season, theres quite a few guys out, but rarely see someone. Remeber we have 3 times the land mass and only a entire opulation of 1 million.

180-200 sheds...rare as heck is right. Depends again on what is rare...You aint gonna find a set every year.

Cold...depends when you hunt.The last few night in the tree its been about -13 f (WITH THE WINDCHILL)... Which is average this time, but have had years were in the tree at -49 f(with windchill) yup, you heard that right. Must be codidtioned, cause yes its dam cold but always seem to be able to make 4 or 5 hours in the tree.

On provinces, depends how you want to roll. Manitoba and alberta you cannot bait. Sask you can. I think thats the biggest difference. Alberta has some gagger bucks, manitoba you hear less about, but I think there there. That said, your ONLY option to hunt sask is with a $5,000 a week outfitter...No other way... And guys that done like baiting, any of your buddies that came to sask to hunt, whacked there deer over a few hundred pounds of alfalfa and grain. Nothing wrong with it at all, just stating the truth. 99.999% of outfitters will drop you at the bait in the morning, and pick you up at dark. SO its a little different than what your used to.

You also being a non-resident cannot hunt 80% of the deer inhabitied areas. You are imited to the forest only.

What do we think of it here...Its dwindling fast. Poor managment and a culture amoung hunters to refuse to harvest does,and in many cases not even given the oppertunity...Me, I wanna huint the midwest.

 

[JNRBRONC]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Saskbowhunter</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> your ONLY option to hunt sask is with a $5,000 a week outfitter...No other way... </div></div>

That pretty much kills it for me....