2005 Hunting Summary
We are happy to say we had another
successful year in 2005. |
| Spring Bear Hunt |
 This
was our 2nd year bear hunting in our new area. Everything went
very well this season the weather cooperated and so did the
bears. We had 18 hunters everyone got 1 bear and half of the
guys got their 2nd bear. We had wolves missed on 3 occasions,
a few close calls. The bears ranged from 200lbs to 500lbs. The
average being 350lbs. We built some bridges into new country.
The oilfield roads also continued another 5kms further into
unhunted area. We were shown a 10 yr. oilfield plan. The roads
will continue deeper into bush. Things look very good for next
year. We then had the summer off to prepare for our fall hunts
in the Grande Prairie area. |
| Mule Deer |
 My
season started with a successful Caribou hunt in the North West
Territories. I then came home to begin our archery Mule deer
hunts. Our 1st 2 hunters had an incredible hunt with many shot
opportunities. 1 buck was killed, 1 wounded 1 of the bucks that
was missed at 30 yards would have scored in the 190 range. The
2nd week of hunters shot 3 bucks out of 4 guys as well as 2
bears and a buffalo. We had a lot of fun with the guys and are
looking forward to some of them returning next year. |
| Elk Hunt |
|
In between elk and moose Gunther
and I were able to harvest a 182 and a 185 mule deer, we cheated
and used a gun. |
| Moose Hunt |
 Moose
hunts started off with a bang. We had 13 hunters total shoot
13 bulls. We got into some older bulls at trophy camp with a
53 inch, 48, 47, 45 inch. Moose populations have never been
so high. |
| Whitetail Hunt |
 Our
archery whitetail hunts were almost a success with both hunters
having shot opportunities on 140 to 165 class bucks.Rifle whitetail hunts were good considering the record warm temperatures. Skip from Louisiana shot a personal best with a 173 dark antlered bush buck. Mike Mehren who has hunted with me many times came up to break his jinx of not killing anything except coyotes and ravens. He managed to shoot a beautiful buck that we did not recover. We almost broke the jinx but not yet. On the last day of November I shot a 162 B&C buck at 12 noon by rattling him out of a bedding area. Somewhere in between everything we managed to film 4 shows with Rich & Sandy Mellon for their show Outdoor Quest on the men's channel. Great ending to a fun season!!! |
We
had a few days before rifle elk started, during this time
Günter and I were able to call in our 1st bull elk kills
with a bow.
