Our First Whitetail Bucks Ever

[Camp Cook]

This last fall after living in BC all of my 64 years I made the decision to get out of the overtaxed - overpopulated socialist covid brainwashed cesspool of the Fraser Valley of BC and move to conservative Alberta.

I gave up my BC hunting license and obtained my Alberta hunting license at the end of October 3 days later after asking a few of my new neighbours for permission to hunt on their properties I had the permission to hunt 11 quarter sections (160 acres each) of farm land.

I have shot over 120 mule + blacktail + 2 whitetail does but never shot a whitetail buck.

Son got his youth hunting license and whitetail tag November 5 he shot his buck on the right in the picture evening of Nov 6 I shot the one on the left a few weeks later.

I could have shot one the same evening as my son but I did not want to deal with gutting/hanging/skinning two deer in the same night.

I have never seen so many whitetail bucks they were everywhere and fat these deer eat barley - oats - wheat - alfalfa - etc

Here they are

[srupp]

congradulations on the move....my wife and I are very partial to RED DEER...been treated very well by everyone we meet in many trips to visit familly and friends usually to hunt whitetail..YUMM...and pronghorn as well as CWD positive mulies ...I too have looked at crossing over to live in albeta.

As for your 2 whitetails congrads some of THE BEST EATING wild game meat available
thank you for sharing the move and the hunting success.
really takes courage to move...and to change Provinces...ADMIRE YOUR COURAGE.
thank you for sharing..
little area near RED DEER...BLACKFOLDS..that is particularly nice...and close to Marco at SUGAR CREEK TAXIDERMY
cheers
Steven

[Gateholio]

Nice looking bucks! I've bought a number of WT tags but never shot one. Most of the ones I see are hiding on private property with a barb wire force field around them.

[Bustercluck]

Nice bucks! And welcome to Alberta!

[stoneramhunter]

Congratulations

[Camp Cook]

congradulations on the move....my wife and I are very partial to RED DEER...been treated very well by everyone we meet in many trips to visit familly and friends usually to hunt whitetail..YUMM...and pronghorn as well as CWD positive mulies ...I too have looked at crossing over to live in albeta.

As for your 2 whitetails congrads some of THE BEST EATING wild game meat available
thank you for sharing the move and the hunting success.
really takes courage to move...and to change Provinces...ADMIRE YOUR COURAGE.
thank you for sharing..
little area near RED DEER...BLACKFOLDS..that is particularly nice...and close to Marco at SUGAR CREEK TAXIDERMY
cheers
Steven

My wife grew up in Blackfalds/Lacombe bonus is my older son his wife and my two grandsons moved to Lacombe one week before we moved here we are closer to Rocky Mtn House though.

I do nnot want to be living anywhere near the Hwy 2 corridor = far to busy I can drove from my house to Rocky on a secondary hwy and pass maybe 1- 15 vehicles tops.

I was totally surprised at how good the whitetail deer meat tastes only meat I've eaten that could be better are Sitka blacktail from the Queen Charlotte Islands.

I've also shot 9 coyotes since I got here and I'm not really even looking for them yet.

Move was super expensive to get everything here cost close to $30,000

[Camp Cook]

Nice looking bucks! I've bought a number of WT tags but never shot one. Most of the ones I see are hiding on private property with a barb wire force field around them.

Almost every whitetail buck I saw was on one of the quarter sections I had exclusive hunting permission on.

One morning a 5 min drive from home where we shot these bucks on that one harvested barley field had 14 whitetail does 3 bucks 5 cow moose and one bull moose

Like you I have always bought tags just never found a shootable whitetail buck in BC.

[RackStar]

Nice pair of bucks , I’m quite pleased with the hunting opportunity in Alberta.

[caddisguy]

Nicely done! Was it fairly straight forward getting the hunting license in Alberta? You just need to show them proof of completion the hunting education here in BC?

The only Whitetail bucks I ever see out in the open during GOS here in BC is in Region 2

Congrats on getting all settled there and harvesting some fine bucks. Thanks for the share!!

Figure those Chilliwack Valley bucks must be getting out of control with you gone. If you need someone to go out there and keep the in check just send over the GPS coordinates. I promise to video it when I say "Camp Cook sent me" and squeeze the trigger LOL

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Nice bucks CC! But I thought the bodies would have been a bit bigger with all that good Alberta nutrition.

Congrats on your move. If we had stayed in Canada we would have picked Alberta as well.

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