Archive for the ‘Fishing and Hunting’ Category

Kent and I lived in Texas for a year and a half and met some of the most interesting people in the world! It seemed everyone owned at least one gun, hunted for sport and took great pride in their Lone Star State.

Hunting was a very popular subject and we still guffaw at a story of a man and his 14 year old son sitting in their blind, awaiting the deer, supposedly ‘hunting’. Sure enough at 6:55 am, a big buck wanders into the clearing, looking up at the Deer Feeder and appears to be waiting. At 7 am on the dot, the deer hears a click, he turns his head to the side and closes the eye nearest the feeder. The feeder shoots out dried corn kernels, hitting him in the head and neck. As it shuts off, the deer begins eating his daily breakfast. The 14 year old bagged his first deer.

We still tell that story whenever the subject of hunting comes up, as that’s not the way we hunt in Canada. We climb mountains, trek through forests, ford streams, get lost, cold, wet and exhausted. The deer rarely come to us - we actually go looking for them!

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Here are more of Kent’s photos from his Buffalo hunting trip with his friend Terry. They stayed in the very small town of Pink Mountain where there is a motel and a general store. Apparently the water which came out the tap into the bathtub was brown. Terry said he couldn’t see his legs once he sat down in the water!

Each morning they drove about 15 miles to an area where they unloaded the ‘quads’ or snowmobiles and spent the day hunting various areas.

They never saw a single buffalo until Day 11 of the trip - when they finally discovered the way around the ranch. The ranch owner charges $175.00 per day for hunters to hunt on his property and they did not want to pay that as they had the means to travel quite long distances on the snowmobiles or quads.

They did see lots of this!

They came across the first herd of buffalo only 8 miles into their day - but the noisy snowmobiles scared the herd and they were gone. Another 20 miles or so and they finally found another herd. I don’t have a photo of the buffalo Terry shot, but here’s a sample of what they look like!

Kent took these photos of a herd of Elk at Pink Mountain. They were in a field close to where the guys unloaded and loaded the ‘quads’ each day.





This is the east elevation of Pink Mountain.

The hunters with their ‘quads’, ready to go. Notice the huge trailer for hauling the quads and snowmobiles. Terry is well equipped for travelling and hunting!

I think this touch of snow on the mountains looks lovely. More photos to come soon!

Kent phoned this evening from 70 Mile House to say he’d be home tomorrow.  He and Terry stopped off at Terry’s home on the lake at 70 Mile House to spend the night.  They drove 11 hours today - from Fort St. John.

There were two bull moose at the side of the highway today and Kent got a good shot of them for me.  It’s unusual to see two bulls together, but after rutting season perhaps they are all friends for a while.

Hopefully, I’ll post a few of his photos Saturday.