I have looked and looked but can’t seem to find any tentative dates for the 2021 moose season. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have looked and looked but can’t seem to find any tentative dates for the 2021 moose season. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't think they have been released yet, probably not until December or the New Year.
I thought they mentioned moving all rifle hunting back like it use to be. Opener on long weekend?
Lets just get through 2020 !
Good luck and play safe !
Glen
Thanks for the help all unfortunately members of my group and I need to pick our holidays in 2020 for 2021
That's going to jamb up a lot of hunters who are in the same position. With the entire system changing next year,everything is still "up in the air" as far as seasons and other regulations being released. The entire system is very fluid and likely will be for a while yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by ohdot
Those are 2020 dates....Quote:
Originally Posted by Deer Hunter
lol, time to go to bed.:ashamed:Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_iles
Lol.... no worries !!! Unless they make big changes, the opening dates will likely be one day earlier......Quote:
Originally Posted by Deer Hunter
In 2021 the gun hunting season for adult and calf moose in Southern Ontario (WMUs 45-50, 53-63) will shift earlier to begin the third Monday in October, as it did before 2017.
Starting in 2021, all WMUs will have calf tag quotas to control calf harvest. This means we no longer need to align the start dates of the calf seasons in Southern and Northern Ontario to limit calf harvest.
Reverting to the earlier moose gun season timing addresses concerns we heard from hunters about the moose and deer gun hunting seasons being too close together.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/moose-management-review
Im glad they switched that back.
Me too. That really buggered up party/prep weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by cricket
Sounds like the seasons in the NW will stay the same....well after the rut !Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
2021 tentative dates are posted as of this morning
Scroll down the article, 2021 dates are listed. October 16 seems to be the opening day for rifle season in most road accessible units in northern Ontario,Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_iles
Nice to see the switch back to the traditional dates. My thinking regarding the mess up with last year's start date is that the bugger who came up with the calculation of when the season would start, didn't account for a leap year and that what's caused the moose / deer season's to only be separated by the weekend. Never did figure out the Saturday start, and as said, it did frigg up many of our "opening of the Hunt Camp cocktail parties". Which are sacred!!
Deeds.
its shocking more people don't b!tch about that then anything else, that is my main issue with the system. you draw a bull tag you should be able to hunt the dam rut with a gun,Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_iles
Scheduling the season after the rut is a management strategy to reduce hunter success, and to protect prime bulls. The hope is to increase moose numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt86
true, but even if the rifle hunt started october 1 to the 5 in there that is the tail end of the rut where most cows have been bred,Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam Menard
protect prime bulls but lets whip out the calves lol
its just all backwards in my mind,
but if you are native you can have a big bull contest starting September 15 on the 2 reserves I hunted around last year
Thank the maker we're back to the old dates.