Recent content by pete79

You don’t need to move them away for long. If they’re ganged up on an area, they’ll have it churned up and like the surface of the moon in a week. Move them then. Let them hit another area till it’s bare, then move them back to the original spot so they can root up any remnants of creeping...

Late reply here, but I’ll chip in for what it’s worth. Pigs are tremendous. They’re such a good tool for clearing land. I’ve been raising them for years. They’ll clear just about anything and are really good for rooting out almost indestructible rooting plants. If you have a mobile setup...

Only ever had one that was really stinky (had to throw away my clothes after field dressing) and never had a bad tasting one. I never shoot any big mature bulls if I can avoid it, and target the medium sized to smaller guys. This one was a medium sized bull. Really cool thing is.......he had...

I just took a moose a few days ago with a rifle. They're quite something when they're in the right mindset in the rut. He came in grunting and thrashing trees.

I live in the Yukon, I also hunt bison from time to time (although moose is my go to meat). My experience is once one goes down, the rest of the herd head for the horizon as soon as they see you. The guy wounded it and ended up in close proximity to a wounded animal....it attacked him....and...

Oh yeah, some people get pretty fired up about wolf numbers here too. I don't; it is what it is.....a fairly intact ecosystem where moose live with stable populations of predators. I hunt early rut time, and use calls to try and get a moose to come to me. Depending on their frame of mind...

Beauty. Nice pictures. I left the moose alone this year as I already had meat. I intend to shoot a caribou if the opportunity presents this winter. What is the moose population like in Norway? Are they fairly numerous? Do you hunt by "calling" bulls within range? How big are they? They...

My shotgun is a cylinder bore barrel. I have heard that the slug will deform to squeeze through the choke, but heard that long term it will weaken the barrel with all that energy trying to get past a restriction. How long have you been doing it for.

BC does have bears. SSG is a good round for sure. Slug is tried tested and proven for me - used several times. Packs outrageous energy within 50m. You gotta aim with any round you use. It's the Winchester 870 pump action for me.

Haven't been on the forum for about a year, but always something interesting to be found on here. Nice to see a guy from NWT putting some first hand experience of bears onto the table. This would be a what have I done answer as opposed to what would I do answer. Never had an issue with wolves...

Had one just last night trying to break into my chicken coop. I'd switched off the electric fence while I was coming and going (eggs out, water in) and looked out the house window and though "that looks like something large, hairy and bear-esque trying to get into the chicken coop". What do...

In some places it's legal to set up bait stations for bears, normally for hunting them. In other areas the game laws prohibit bait stations. I live with both black and griz in the vicinity of my home, and in my opinion you definately don't want to be feeding these things. Big, strong, powerful...

I haven't been on here for a while, and I'm pleased to see a chicken thread starting up. Sussex are an ace choice. I own 12 of them. I also have Rhode Island Reds, white chanteclers, and Black Australorps. All are breeds I would recommend. In terms of hardiness, and egg production, the...

100 lps plus round here. Like most animals, the further north you go, the larger they get. Surface area to volume ratio - it pays to be big for heat regulation in a northern climate. They're like a big dog on stilts, and the love to partake of a domestic dog or two.

Happens every winter where I live. Some years more than others. It's a behaviour progression. Life gets a little harder in the bush as winter arrives and goes on, and the wolves have to cover more ground and this increases the likelihood of them coming near people. They come across a few...