First day back in the U. S. from another Alberta trip. My wife wanted to go to Canada to visit where I hunt deer so the trip was scheduled (she can't figure the attraction).
Spent about 9 days, rained the first 2 and we got cabin fever a bit, spent 2 days shooting gophers near Killam... flat land and the gophers were shot close(r) range...to about 300 yards. We still managed to get about a million of them and ran out of time and bullets. The best time was to be had using an old Winchester model 77 (I believe) 22 rimfire after we ran out ot 223 and 6mm-06 ammo. We made a few kills in the 160 to 170 yards area with the 22 RF... there was a "nest" there and we shot about a dozen off that particular spot...The first 22RF kill was 164 yards (on a "you can't hit one that far away with a 22" challenge), then the shooting was on...lots of fun. We fed a bunch of crows, ravens and opportunistic gophers those 2 days.
Went to visit the mountains at Jasper and spent a little time whitetail shed antler hunting (some luck but no Booner's found).
We didn't get SARS, West Nile, CJD, Mad Cow or anything else.
I do believe I'll head back up for a buffalo and wolf hunt in January...
Saw a pile of whitetail, some coyote, moose, sheep, mule deer, black bear, grizzly and various birds. (Lots of live and dead gophers too!)
Oh yeah...A rental car (Ford Expedition) will hold about 1,500 pounds of that sticky clay mud that comes off the "high grade" unpaved roads...(more than that when you're skidding sideways with the window down.
) Took us 3 trips to the car wash and a pocket full of Toonies (don't know the correct Canadian spelling) to get that car clean enough to return.
[ 06-30-2003: Message edited by: Dave King ]
Spent about 9 days, rained the first 2 and we got cabin fever a bit, spent 2 days shooting gophers near Killam... flat land and the gophers were shot close(r) range...to about 300 yards. We still managed to get about a million of them and ran out of time and bullets. The best time was to be had using an old Winchester model 77 (I believe) 22 rimfire after we ran out ot 223 and 6mm-06 ammo. We made a few kills in the 160 to 170 yards area with the 22 RF... there was a "nest" there and we shot about a dozen off that particular spot...The first 22RF kill was 164 yards (on a "you can't hit one that far away with a 22" challenge), then the shooting was on...lots of fun. We fed a bunch of crows, ravens and opportunistic gophers those 2 days.
Went to visit the mountains at Jasper and spent a little time whitetail shed antler hunting (some luck but no Booner's found).
We didn't get SARS, West Nile, CJD, Mad Cow or anything else.
I do believe I'll head back up for a buffalo and wolf hunt in January...
Saw a pile of whitetail, some coyote, moose, sheep, mule deer, black bear, grizzly and various birds. (Lots of live and dead gophers too!)
Oh yeah...A rental car (Ford Expedition) will hold about 1,500 pounds of that sticky clay mud that comes off the "high grade" unpaved roads...(more than that when you're skidding sideways with the window down.
[ 06-30-2003: Message edited by: Dave King ]