How was your weekend?

[MaxxiD]

Got skunked looking for chickens today. Still glad I went though

How was everyone else's weekend?

[raab]

Went deer hunting, more people and bears then deer. Not the start to the season I was hoping for.

[Dick284]

No call outs(so far)
Built a hitch mounted clay bird thrower, so when we go goose hunting next week, my buddies boy can get some practice in.

[Jimmyd]

Got out today for a walk,one pheasant and one hun!

[catnthehat]

Drive back from the lake today and took a walk in two of my favorite haunts.
Lots of sign and found some great spots to put my climber in!
Should be interesting next week !
Took payment for the sale of my M70 match rifle ? Still wondering if selling it was a smart move but I am picking up an RPA in 260 and a XR100 in 6MNBR so it isn't hurting TOO bad!!
Leo had to get an overload permit to transport the guns south - I neglected to tell him these are both F/0 target rifles they ain't "Hunting weight "rifles for sure!!
Cat

[Dewey Cox]

Shot a trap tournament on Saturday.
Those birds are guaranteed to be there.
Not great eating though...

[NSDucknut]

Crappy.

[KazIce]

Went for and evening hunt today. Super quiet then in the last 45 mins all the deer came out. 9 does and a spiker buck. Was happy if we saw just one doe lol. Awesome start to the season!


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[bezzola]

I worked

[58thecat]

Got a few birds.....3 for 3....

[Stinky Buffalo]

Spent the weekend riding around the bush and hiking with my boys, looking for grouse. Was fairly quiet, although we did spot deer from time to time. Same as last weekend.

We decided to do one last tour last night before heading home, and around 3:30, suddenly we were seeing grouse. Was really interesting, almost like flipping a switch.

[Kurt505]

What this thread needs is some photos and keep it going.

My weekend was spent celebrating birthdays, a little target practice, some trail riding with the Jeep and some quality time in the deer blind with my little buddy.








Already making plans for next weekend

[timsesink]

Lakeland Canoe Circuit...awesome.

[Smoky buck]

Only did some lane trimming, scouting and checked cams. Wanted to do some duck hunting but felt too crippled so chose to take it easy

[Sooner]

Great, another camping/work weekend. Work hard during the day, fire cooked steak and tater for supper and enjoy some wobbly pop around the fire after dark.


Been out a friends inherited farm land all summer cleaning up an old mobile home site for camping and family fun. Hauled a full shortbox load of scrap steel we collected this summer from the weirdest places in that yard, from tool boxes, to winch line, to plate steel & old bed springs, all to to the local dump.

Then we got back to opening quad trials along an old farm trail that their aunt remembers driving in the family car beside a big lake(slough really). There were no trees then, she is 66 now.


Its a sweet property with this lake on one side of the quarter and bush on the 3 other sides bordering farm fields. Been seeing does and young bucks all summer. Found a new buck scrape this weekend so 1 cam is there. The other 3 are up on various deer spots. Now we will see what lurks out there.

And I finally seen a moose, nice 2 yr old meat bull with shovels the size of your hand. Seen him at dusk in the quad headlights.

[6.5 shooter]

Finally got the wife out to the range, so she could make tiny little groups with her "new" to her savage Model 12. in .308. Got a load that is looking good, so will see if we can improve it a bit...5 shot groups = 7/16" by 3/8"@100 yds. Not to bad for her first day on a new rifle, rest, etc...

[KGB]

Went grouse hunting on Friday. Saw one bird, got one bird. My buddy and his son had a deer/ elk tags, so we decided to hang around the cut line for a few hours. Nothing. Driving back to the grouse area and got lost taking a wrong turn. By that time it was too late and we decided to head home. All of the sudden, we see a huge black bear! The bugger run into the Bush when he saw the truck. I only had my .22 rifle but buddy and his 13y.o. Kid had their big guns. We parked the truck and they headed back where we saw the bear....
I was in the truck waiting. I heard the shot. Buddy comes back to the vehicle. The kid shot the bear! This was his first bear!
We drove back, it was getting really dark( he shot the bear 8 min before the legal time was up). Couldn’t see the bear , but buddy said he saw the bullet hit, for sure a lethal lung shot. Couldn’t see any blood on the road and couldn’t see past 20 yards from the road. Decided to head home and come back next morning. I had to work Saturday but buddy spent all morning looking for the bear... nothing!

[wildwoods]

Sat in the Old 248 Moose blind. lots of early season sign but no bullwinkle. Hoping to make it out again this week sometime

[leo]

Good elk season.


Me Thursday night, 150 yards with an HS Precision 300 WSM



Called this nice fellow in for my son Sunday morning. He used a Tikka 658 in 338 WM st about 225 yards.



My nephew got this bull Monday evening. Told him where to set up, and just cow call. Taken with my HS Precision at 150 yards. All 3 taken in the same field within 100 yards of each other.


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[KazIce]

Originally Posted by leo

Good elk season.


Me Thursday night, 150 yards with an HS Precision 300 WSM



Called this nice fellow in for my son Sunday morning. He used a Tikka 658 in 338 WM st about 225 yards.



My nephew got this bull Monday evening. Told him where to set up, and just cow call. Taken with my HS Precision at 150 yards. All 3 taken in the same field within 100 yards of each other.


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Nicely done!! The freezers are off to a great start


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[nast70]

My wife, BIL and sis were out for the last week at our favorite elk'in area. Sis had her cow draw this year, the guys had general elk and wt tags.
First night out BIL is texting he has 2 does 35 yds! we are replying, save the does, forcus on the elk. We don't have to drive 6 hours for a deer.
Next morning i see a cow and a calf cross my line. Nobody else saw a thing. Nothing turned up on the night stand either. The next morning, at the same time the cow and calf turn up again. That was the last elk we saw all week, but did we see moose! I saw my largest bull ever, even at a distance it was the largest animal i had ever seen. His junk was wider than the trail, well over 50". My BIL saw him a couple days later, only a few yards behind his stand. Got some good pics and a vid of him.
Wifely and i had a relaxing evening stand by a beaver dam. Had the pleasure of watching curious beavers swim around and a very light colored coyote take an interest in us as well. We all had a chance to watch a young bull moose chase a cow around near camp.
By far the neatest thing I saw was a Lynx. It came out one morning just a few yards away from my spot and casually walked up the trail. First one I have ever seen in the wild.

[Kurt505]

I had another great weekend with a couple exceptions, one being tearing the sidewall out of my Jeep tire, a $400 touch.

My youngest son made a new distance record with his bow.



I helped a friend of mine get his first bull moose with a bow.



Then once we got it back to my cabin my oldest boy picked it up with the ol’ John deer and the youngest supervised to make sure we did a good job skinning it.



Then we had a few drinks and told stories around the campfire.




All in all it was another great weekend in the woods with my family and friends.

[270person]

5 days elk hunting. 28 degrees C for 2 of them. Real nice.

Could have plastered a nice bull squirrel.

[teledogs]

Last weekend was great!
We got a new rescue pup, Calvin.
I went for my 1st hunt since missing hunting season last year due to emergency heart surgery. Saw 4 grouse.
Developed a load for my son's hunting rifle.
Had a great day at the Hinton Range.
Ate well from the garden & had a few beer with wifey!

[honda610]

Went for a quick morning goose hunt on Friday birds were wanting to land but the pea field was already had a disc ran through it. Our blinds stood out lol.
I managed a few birds and a nice 11.8 pound Canada.
Had our Athabasca fish and game awards from 2019 at the clubs lease. The oldest boy got the Jr Ruff grouse award and the youngest got the jr walleye trophy.
Finished rebuilding my sons 200sx honda quad the other week. So we took her for a nice 30km quad ride behind the acerage to break in the motor. She ran like a top. Checked my bear bait for more action. Great weekend with the kids and wife.

[alpineguy]

Kmacisaac and I rode in to prep camp for later in the season.

[skain11]

Took a friend new to fly fishing exploring on Saturday. 500k later we both had caught our first graylings on dry flies. The pics are two stretches of the Freeman river 40 k apart.

[coxy95]

[QUOTE=alpineguy;4239644]Kmacisaac and I rode in to prep camp for later in the season.

Looks like a good time!

[skain11]

Originally Posted by skain11

Took a friend new to fly fishing exploring on Saturday. 500k later we both had caught our first graylings on dry flies. The pics are two stretches of the Freeman river 40 k apart.

now I get to flame and correct myself. In reviewing the GPS maps and keeping in mind we did some bushwacking to the first stream with no cell coverage, it is now apparent that the smaller stream is a tributary of the Freeman and we were a few hundred yards up from the confluence. still a great day out and we did meet up with a few friendly hunters.

[Big Thumper]

We spent the weekend hunting grouse about an hour north of slave lake. We thought numbers might be down with the wet spring. They were. We still managed a few birds though. One interesting find was that we shot three very small ruffed grouse. The tail feathers were only a few inches long. These looked like birds you might happen across in July or August. We were thinking these birds might have been from a second clutch if the first checks were lost from the wet/cold. Having shot hundreds of birds in this area, these were the first we've seen like this.