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Our guiding territory consists of three huge zones totaling 4600 sq miles or almost 3 million acres. We can hunt any of the public land which is about 25% of the territory and we can also hunt anywhere we can get permission on the private land. About 70% of the private landowners give us permission to hunt, and it's illegal to pay for hunting access. So we don't have any exclusive access but we have endless land to hunt. Canada is a great place to hunt!

Tony is a great guy and a dedicated bowhunter. This hunt was his 3rd time moose bowhunt with us. He killed a good bull in 2019 with us but was a no kill in 2018 due to very rainy, cold weather. We had a couple bulls on camera coming to our natural salt licks in daylight this year so we were certain that Tony would get another bull and that the bad luck in 2018 was just a fluke. Well, he only had one small bull come in the first day and not offer a good shot which is so, so rare. The moose usually come in for a solid 5-10 minutes and offer multiple shot opportunities from a tree stand at the one lick or a tripod stand at the other. Tony stuck it out on stand for 3 more days and saw all kinds of animals, including cow and calf moose but no bulls. We pulled him off the stand for the 5th and 6th days to try to kill a bull with some spot and stalk hunting but it didn't work out either. Finally Tony ended the 6 day hunt with no kill, a rarity for us. Sorry Tony, we hope to have you back!

(Canola is the crop they are in, the muleys love it!)

For you guys looking for a chance at a giant muley, Mike’s definitely got em!

How far do you typically have to stalk? What is average shot distance? Any details, would be appreciated

thanks

And Yes, Pyrannah the mule deer hunts are definitely a blast! I did lay out the perfect scenario of how we kill the bucks and it does happen about half the time like that, the other half of the time we kill them any way we can, pushes, ground blinds, tree stands and just random encounters while the deer are on the move.

Anyone want to hazard a gross score guess?

Save me a big dark antlered 6 point like the one above and I’ll get by for now!

Good guess T-Roy! Very close

Gerard's buck scored 197 gross and it certainly wasn't the biggest buck we had scouted out or tried to kill with our hunters.

Dang nice harvests, thanks for sharing, Mike

Good luck, Robb

Thanks drycreek! It's a great muley bowhunt!

I had the bull gross scored at about 150 which is pretty big for us. and I was thrilled! We have tons of moose but very few in the 45 plus inch wide, 150 plus score size. We've only killed two bulls over 50 inches in 16 years with many, many dead bulls.

I took Ken for the opening week of rifle hunting, Sept 17th and I was really struggling to get into any bugling bulls. We live and die by the intensity of the rut because the woods are so thick with no place to glass. We almost always have to call the bulls in unless we can find a farm field spot where they are consistently feeding which is rare. Ken was in great shape so we put on the miles, 10+ miles a day. After 3 days of hiking and throwing out location bugles we weren't hearing much calling we decided to slow it down and still hunt a river valley on the 4th day of hunting. It has some big spruce tree patches with good trails and very little deadfall so if I have a quiet, sneaky hunter it can be a deadly hunting method. I would call about every 400-500 yds then slowly walk to the next location, stopping and listening along the way. It paid off with this bull silently coming in to 25 yds. We had a few tense moments getting into position for a good shot but Ken dropped the bull in his tracks. It was a very exciting hunt!

Sure as heck he had also got a bull but had dropped it just inside the field edge. Farmers understandably hate crop damage, which we always compensate them for, but Gerard is friends with the farmer and he had just rolled into the field to combine it. They waved him down and told him about the situation, he was happy to hear about two dead elk and volunteered to combine the oat crop right up to the dead bull. It was so great, two bulls down and a happy farmer!

Opening week for rifle moose is September 24th, right at the beginning of the rut, an exciting time to be in the woods, moose rut and elk rut going strong. You never know when you will hear a screaming bull or a grunting one! I was guiding Dean from Vancouver B.C. on a moose and elk combo hunt. Dean is a very interesting guy who has a movie production company. He had some great stories about many of the actors he had met over the years. He also grew up in inner city Vancouver and had other crazy stories about growing up with the gangs. We chatted lots while we drove around looking for moose in the fields and stopping, hiking trying to call one in. We have a few too many cow moose in our area so calling can be tough, driving in the truck is often more effective. We almost killed a bull elk and a moose in the same field but ended up screwing up both opportunities. Then we finally found a moose standing in an old homestead patch of woods and one 150 yd shot later we had him on Sept 28th. Dean wasn't quite up to hiking the big river valleys and we ended up elkless.

They drove through the Canada border and said it was pretty much hassle free. Driving is the only way to take ALL of your meat home, otherwise you are pretty limited to how much meat you can take back, maybe 50-100 lbs in extra baggage for your flight home. There is no good shipping option from Alberta to the USA. We also have an excellent butcher who can cut wrap and freeze all of your delicious moose meat, takes him about 36 hours to have it packaged up, frozen hard and ready for transport. An average moose like these will give you about 350 lbs of boneless meat, the equivalent of about seven 48 quart coolers, like the Walmart ones. If you use bigger coolers plan on a minimum of 350 quarts of cooler space. A 40+ inch, 5 or 6 yr old bull will get upwards of 400 lbs/quarts of space. A giant 8+ yr old 45-50+ inch bull will push into the 450 lb meat range, very rare for us though and much of the meat is hamburger which we will gladly use in camp if you can't fit it all in your coolers.

Thanks slate!

You run a first class operation....Big country, lots of opportunity, great meals and an awesome lodge!

I remember you calling in my bull elk on a string to 40 yds (after we chased him a mile)!

Fun times!

Mark

Our November moose hunts are just as successful as our rut hunts. This is because as the rut tapers off the weather gets colder and the moose begin to feed in the farm fields. In most areas you would not want to try to hunt moose in November, without farmland the moose will retreat back into the heavy timber or willow flats where they can be very difficult to find. On our hunts most days each hunter will see 10-20 moose a day, mostly cows and calves though, on good days way more than that! All from the comfort of a pick up truck.

Our 12 yr old son Tyler Ukrainetz really wanted to get a deer with a rifle, even though he shoots a bow quite a bit. It was November and it's pretty tough to get even a doe with a bow without sitting out in the cold a lot. He figured it would be more fun to drive around with Gerard as his guide and get his doe with a 243 rifle. They got it done with a 220 yard shot off the standing shooting sticks, not easy to do for many adults.

Hello Mike,

I wanted to send off a note of thanks for the tremendous experience I had at your camp last week. I don't have a full appreciation for what you have had to deal with this past year with the logistical and financial challenges brought on by Covid restrictions, but do know the professional way you handled things was as much as ever could be expected.

It was clear from day one, you and your guides are committed to providing the very best hunting experience possible. I know the preparation and expense that goes into delivering such an experience is significant. The time dedicated by both you and the guides, to pre-scout and gain landowners permission is a key element of that success and it was obvious you go the extra mile to deliver.

The area you have chosen to set up shop is game rich, both in quantity and quality. The camp is well accommodated and the food was top notch. One of the things I most appreciate is that when one guide is done helping his clients harvest their respected animal, they dedicate their efforts to help the remaining hunters achieve success by continuing to scout. The additional man hours, wear and tear on equipment and gas expense provided leads to the overall success and does not go unrecognized!

Please share this with Alec as he worked his butt off to provide me with a quality hunt. Also, please feel free to use me as a future reference. I will call you in January to get something scheduled for a future hunt.

Thanks again MIke. I have had a life full of hunting experiences, but hunting with you and Alec has enriched those experiences!

Respectfully,

Tom LaBarre

Shots could be anywhere from 10 to 1000 yards off a good rest, it's up to you to decide what distance you are comfortable with. You have to stay on the ball, off your phone, ready to yell at any buck to stop him, then judge him and make the shot. The deer are not standing around feeding in a food plot. Paul had seen several deer including a couple of bigger bucks but it just hadn't worked out to put one on the ground. You can shoot any buck that you want, what we kill doesn't affect the overall trophy quality the next year. We only get 6 whitetail rifle outfitter tags per year in our home zone. Paul decided this 10 pointer was big enough and took it, he was happy. Congrats Paul!

And yes, yellowjacket we have some big bodied does! Thanks for noticing.

Ted also came with a couple of buddies, this time from North Carolina. Ted had seen pictures of all the other 180 plus inch deer we had killed this year and he was determined to get one for himself. Him and guide Alec looked over dozens of bucks in the first 5 1/2 days of a 6 1/2 day hunt, including a couple of probable high 170 class deer, not quite 180, so they got a pass. Finally they got down to the last day and things were getting desperate so they took this heavy, 171 score buck. Ted was happy and so were we, when you leave it to the last day it could have been a 150 inch deer, trophy hunting has it's risks!

We tell all of our mule deer hunters with rifle or bow that if you for sure want to go home with a deer you better shoot the first 170+ class deer you find. It might not be the biggest one around but at least you got a nice one!

(The whitetails are scattered throughout the zone in ever increasing numbers, we only get 6 outfitter whitetail tags per year and there are only another 2 outfitter whitetail tags in our whole 1200 sq mile zone. Alberta resident hunters can buy one buck tag over the counter and kill any whitetail, plus they can get a doe tag. There is no shortage of resident hunters, so Gerard getting a big buck has no effect on the quality of the hunt for our hunters.)

I do almost all of the whitetail scouting and this buck had been a long, long term mission to get killed. I even personally hunted his area with my bow for well over 200 hrs over 40 days in the last 3 years and never saw him, or any good bucks actually. (That's what a bow and no baiting will give you) But Glenn got him and I was so happy! Glenn was very appreciative of the deer and our efforts, the buck gross scored 174, netting 168, just below official Boone and Crockett score.

Jean killed this deer on the last day of the hunt on a last afternoon bush pushing session set up by Gerard and a team of hunters in camp. It worked perfect setting up Jean for a 100 yd shot. It's rare for us to find a setup that works for any kind of deer drive but we will do anything legal to get it done.

If you are interested in coming on a hunt with us for 2022 we only have a few hunts left open. We have two spots open for a bear hunt for this spring for two hunters, May 29 to June 5 for $5000 USD for one bear, $2000 USD for a 2nd bear, per person. You can book in as a solo hunter. We have two bow only moose hunts Sept 7 to 14, for $6500 USD per person, or one rifle moose hunt Nov 1 to 6, for $7500 and one whitetail deer rifle hunt for Nov 24 to 30, for $5000. Next year, 2023 also has very limited openings for all of our hunts. You have to be vaccinated to get through the border but the Covid testing has become less strict with just a rapid test needed the day before you fly. You can also drive right to our lodge and then I'm not sure if the testing is even required to get through the border now? The restrictions seem to be relaxing so far, hopefully the vax requirement comes off soon too, we will see.

Call or text me anytime on my cell (780) 864 7736. Thanks!!

will have to look into hunting with you some day