2015 Big Game application dates

[SK33T3R]

My group has been moose hunting together for @ 30 years now. I also now refuse to go without a bull and a cow tag. We switched over to muzzle loader zones 6 years ago and now even that is tricky to draw. We are booked for Quebec this year. License is expensive but we would burn that money up in gas anyway going out to NW Ontario and we save 2 days travel time. My fear is that there will be a mass exodus of resident moose hunters and they will switch over to deer. We are crowded as it is in our area hopefully it doesn't double with the onslaught of disgruntled moose hunters.

HERE'S A QUESTION FOR YA!

How long do you think the Quebec system will stay as it is (especially for non-residents) with the sudden huge influx of hunters from Ontario?

Do you think they will stand idly by and allow an overharvest to their moose?

I have quite a few friends already talking of Quebec.

I'd like to have a toll booth from Ontario into Quebec just during their moose hunt.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the Ontario gov't / MNR doesn't set up a tax of some sort for game coming back into Ontario!

This is not an infinite resource.

[terrym]

HERE'S A QUESTION FOR YA!

How long do you think the Quebec system will stay as it is (especially for non-residents) with the sudden huge influx of hunters from Ontario?

Do you think they will stand idly by and allow an overharvest to their moose?

I have quite a few friends already talking of Quebec.

I'd like to have a toll booth from Ontario into Quebec just during their moose hunt.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the Ontario gov't / MNR doesn't set up a tax of some sort for game coming back into Ontario!

This is not an infinite resource.

Can't answer that, but all I know is that our group of 4 hunters will be buying licenses over the counter and with 4 hunters we can harvest 2 moose and they can be bulls, cows or calves. No party hunting there and they do enforce it so if we kill a moose then 2 hunters become camp cooks and dishwashers or they can always buy small game licenses.

[werner.reiche]

Can't answer that, but all I know is that our group of 4 hunters will be buying licenses over the counter and with 4 hunters we can harvest 2 moose and they can be bulls, cows or calves. No party hunting there and they do enforce it so if we kill a moose then 2 hunters become camp cooks and dishwashers or they can always buy small game licenses.

Some ZECs require more than 2 tags per moose (3 or 4) - that's how they'll handle it. Hunts alternate by year - bulls only one year, bulls,cows,calves the next.

[terrym]

Some ZECs require more than 2 tags per moose (3 or 4) - that's how they'll handle it. Hunts alternate by year - bulls only one year, bulls,cows,calves the next.

seems like a pretty good system to me.

[werner.reiche]

HERE'S A QUESTION FOR YA!

How long do you think the Quebec system will stay as it is (especially for non-residents) with the sudden huge influx of hunters from Ontario?

Do you think they will stand idly by and allow an overharvest to their moose?

I have quite a few friends already talking of Quebec.

I'd like to have a toll booth from Ontario into Quebec just during their moose hunt.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the Ontario gov't / MNR doesn't set up a tax of some sort for game coming back into Ontario!

This is not an infinite resource.

QC MNR is run by practical people. If the demand is too great, the price will go up. I hunted QC in 2010, I think it was. moose license and ZEC license were about $800 IIRC. The game management within the ZEC is done by ZEC stakeholders.

[terrym]

We will be hunting on the edge of a Zec but not in it. When I was a kid growing up in Quebec my first Zec membership only cost $20 and allowed access to all Zecs. Things have changed big time. Guess that makes me very old.

[terrym]

Did everybody remember to apply for moose tags?

[fishy steve]

Did everybody remember to apply for moose tags?

did it last night... almost forgot... buddy text me to ask if i was looking for a hunting partner for moose, and i was like holy crap i gotta apply lol