Will NOT buy a moose license anymore

[Abitibi Ray]

P.S I've never heard that a persone wasn't aloud to fly during open season . I know your not aloud to hunt within 24 hours of flying in . I wonder how manny guys that fly in to outfitted camps , stay in the camp the first morning lol I'd bet none. Personally I don't think it reAly gives you that much advantage anyway , you still gotta make that bull co-operate and come to you , that's the real challenge lol up here its far more rare to see a moose from the air than most would think .

A Ray

[300Sniper]

Let me know for sure if your up this way Jeff , I know the area up here a little lol
How did you make out in Armstrong ? I tried it wonce myself , put a tone of miles on my Argo , called ect no luck . Seen lots of gut piles from the week prior to the opener tho . Seen lots of night hunting goin on as well . Had no desire to ever go back .

A Ray

Armstrong was a different experience from what we were used to. 13 has lots of open spaces and some older and newer cuts, we have been very successful there. Armstrong as you know is pretty "bushy". I like Armstrong in the fact that you could get a limit of grouse at any time in under an hour. I used my pellet gun every day while we were there on them.

Like you I put on a lot of km's, 600 in 4 days mostly scouting. It wasn't until the last 24 hours that we found moose, 3 of them that were all within a couple of hundred yards but didn't want to come out of the bush. My desire to go back would mostly be because we spent so much time learning the land and didn't get to capitalize on it. We went up in the 3rd week which likely added to our challenge of finding moose.

Looking forward to this year and another new experience :-)

[redd foxx]

I'm not so sure this is the intent of the law. If flying to "scout" for moose, even though you don't land and kill the moose right away and kill it, is deemed illegal.....then driving my atv or truck to "scout" an area should be illegal as well. I don't think that's the case. If someone flies an area, sees a moose, lands and then heads in right away to hunt it....then that's a different story.

[Hunter John]

Let me know for sure if your up this way Jeff , I know the area up here a little lol
How did you make out in Armstrong ? I tried it wonce myself , put a tone of miles on my Argo , called ect no luck . Seen lots of gut piles from the week prior to the opener tho . Seen lots of night hunting goin on as well . Had no desire to ever go back .

A Ray

That was my Armstrong experience as well.

[Abitibi Ray]

Ya it was too much for me, when around ten pm a truck full of " locals " pulled up to our camp . Four in the cab and one in the box , drunk . They went on to tell us , " the best time to hunt moose is at night , they drive and every five Km they stop and call . " on the way back just wait to see the moose on the road and shoot . Absolutely ridiculouse . No desire to hunt where that kind of stupidity goes on .

A Ray

[300Sniper]

Ya it was too much for me, when around ten pm a truck full of " locals " pulled up to our camp . Four in the cab and one in the box , drunk . They went on to tell us , " the best time to hunt moose is at night , they drive and every five Km they stop and call . " on the way back just wait to see the moose on the road and shoot . Absolutely ridiculouse . No desire to hunt where that kind of stupidity goes on .

A Ray

Wow that's kinda scary, we didn't see anything like that. It was however eerie standing in the middle of town at the gas station....

[Abitibi Ray]

Lmao ya I felt the same way Jeff lol

[300Sniper]

Lmao ya I felt the same way Jeff lol

LOL LOL you know what I mean ;-)

[Porky]

Thinking Ray that this is the first step toward doing away with the hunt altogether, at least for non- natives! The MNR won't be happy until all of Northern Ontario is deemed a park for the folks from Toronto to enjoy at their leisure. Evidenced by the Caribou Habitat issue where hundreds of thousands of square acres are being set aside for the sake of a couple of dozen woodland caribou. Far as I am concerned, the government knows they won't get away with shutting the season down in one step, so they are doing it gradually. Thinking seriously about not even bothering this year, and just concentrate on trapping and bird hunting. With the new regs, probably be some orphaned calves for the bears and wolves to eat. Sent in our opinions to the EBR, and that was pretty much a waste of time. Figures.

Porky

[Abitibi Ray]

You got that right Porky .. Maybe we should learn from them tho . Like grow a backbone and fight back .. Block some roads , railways , ect . It's our right to hunt to ! Getting to the point that it will turn honest hunters into poachers . Sad but true . I've got enough guys for a guarantied tag this year , but wonce they see the numbers go through the roof in my zone , I'll bet no guaranty for next season . I'll also be concentrating more on the trapping this fall , and some birds , fishing . Just gonna enjoy as much of it while I can . After that who knows ? As for the Caribou , well what joke is all I can say there ..,

A Ray